Dan Fu
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering Department
University of California, San Diego
Distinguished Research Scientist, Together AI
Previously: PhD, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
Research Interests: machine learning and systems, with a focus on efficiency
About Me
I'll be joining UCSD as an assistant professor starting January 2026. I'm recruiting talented students to join my lab! In the mean time I'm building a world-class kernels team at Together AI.
If you're interested in working with me as a PhD student, please send me an email with your resume and interests, and apply for UCSD. I can't respond to all the emails, but I promise I read all of them!
I'm an assistant professor at UCSD in the MLSys group and Distinguished Research Scientist at Together AI. My research focuses on making machine learning models faster and more efficient. Recently, I've been working on efficient ML architectures that scale sub-quadratically in sequence length and model dimension, and hardware-aware systems algorithms to translate these theoretical gains to practical savings. At Together AI, I'm thrilled to be building a world-class kernels team.
Some links:
- How I Structure Introductions to Research Papers
- The Coffee Experiment
- Stanford MLSys Seminar on YouTube (we started during the pandemic)