FlashAttention creator Tri Dao joins Radical Numerics as scientific advisor
exnx · x · 2026-10-16
Tri Dao — creator of FlashAttention and Mamba, Chief Scientist at Together AI and head of Princeton's Dao AI Lab — has joined Radical Numerics as scientific advisor.
CEO Eric Nguyen was his labmate at Stanford's Hazy Research under Chris Ré, where Tri mentored his early research (S4ND). Tri will guide the company's research strategy in ML systems, optimization, and scaling as it builds biological foundation models across multimodal biological data toward general biological intelligence.
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