In Conversation with Anima Anandkumar

About the Session

In this episode of Leading With Data, we interact with Anima Anandkumar, Sr. Director of AI Research at NVIDIA and Bren Professor at Caltech  Anima Anandkumar is a Bren Professor at Caltech and senior director of AI Research at NVIDIA. Her work developing novel artificial intelligence algorithms enables and accelerates scientific applications of AI. She has received best paper awards at venues such as NeurIPS and the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for HPC-Based COVID-19 Research. Anandkumar is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and Alfred. P. Sloan Foundation. She is part of the World Economic Forum's Expert Network and was previously the principal scientist at Amazon Web Services.  

 

Watch as Anima delves into:

➡️ Her love for mathematics, research, and her work on Tensors  

➡️  Her experience working at the intersection of academia and industry  

➡️ The work her team is doing to improve weather forecasting and other scientific problems  

➡️ The potential she sees in AI solving scientific problems  

➡️ The motivation for working behind MineDojo - A Minecraft environment for training autonomous agents  

➡️ Her advice for budding AI researchers!

About the Speaker

Anima Anandkumar is a Bren Professor at Caltech and senior director of AI Research at NVIDIA. Her work developing novel artificial intelligence algorithms enables and accelerates scientific applications of AI. She has received best paper awards at venues such as NeurIPS and the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for HPC-Based COVID-19 Research. Anandkumar is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and Alfred. P. Sloan foundation. She is part of the World Economic Forum's Expert Network and was previously principal scientist at Amazon Web Services.