Presenter

Anima Anandkumar holds dual positions in academia and industry. She is a Bren professor at Caltech CMS department and a director of machine learning research at NVIDIA. She has spearheaded the development of tensor algorithms that are central to effectively processing multidimensional and multimodal data, and for achieving massive parallelism in large-scale AI applications. She is recipient of several awards such as the Alfred. P. Sloan Fellowship, NSF Career Award, Faculty fellowships from Microsoft, Google and Adobe, Young Investigator Awards from the Army research office and Air Force office of sponsored research, and Women in AI by Venturebeat.