# Chris Ré

> Chris Ré is a Stanford computer science professor, MacArthur Fellow, and Together AI co-founder whose research spans database systems, training data, and AI infrastructure. His Hazy Research lab has produced open systems and researchers who went on to build companies, and his 2026 writing questions whether AI agents will make some of his own software abstractions expendable.

- **Role:** Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University; founder, Together AI
- **Organizations:** Stanford University, Hazy Research, Together AI, Snorkel AI, SambaNova Systems, Lattice Data, Inductiv
- **From:** Los Angeles, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.A., Mathematics and Computer Science, Cornell University, M.Eng., Computer Science, Cornell University, M.S., Computer Science, University of Washington, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Washington
- **Known for:** 2015 MacArthur Fellowship., Best paper awards spanning database theory (PODS 2012), database systems (SIGMOD 2014), and machine learning (ICML 2016)., NeurIPS 2020 and PODS 2022 test-of-time awards.

## Career timeline

- **2009–2013** — Assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
- **2013** — Joined the Stanford University computer science faculty.
- **2015** — Received a MacArthur Fellowship for work making large, messy datasets useful through open systems such as DeepDive.
- **2017** — Lattice Data, which he co-founded, was acquired by Apple.
- **2022** — Co-founded Together AI with collaborators to support open foundation models and AI infrastructure.
- **2024** — His group received Stanford’s inaugural Open Source Software Prize for FlashAttention.
- **2026** — Co-wrote “Retire the Abstractions” with Stuart Sul, arguing that coding agents may change how GPU software is built.

## Achievements

- 2015 MacArthur Fellowship.
- Best paper awards spanning database theory (PODS 2012), database systems (SIGMOD 2014), and machine learning (ICML 2016).
- NeurIPS 2020 and PODS 2022 test-of-time awards.
- Stanford inaugural Open Source Software Prize for FlashAttention in 2024.
- Co-founder of Together AI and Snorkel AI; earlier co-founded Lattice Data and Inductiv, which became part of Apple.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Co-authored “Retire the Abstractions” with Stuart Sul on the implications of coding agents for GPU programming.
- **2026-07** — Co-authored a Hazy Research post on MLPs as Hebbian memories.
- **2026-02** — Co-authored a Hazy Research update on ThunderKittens 2.0.

## Links

- Website: https://cs.stanford.edu/~chrismre/

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