Anima Anandkumar

Dr. Animashree Anandkumar is a Bren Professor at the California Institute of Technology and Director of Machine Learning Research at NVIDIA. She develops machine-learning algorithms that enable computers to process dimensional data using tensors. She finds ways to make these algorithms scale more effectively. She earned several prizes for her work including the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF Career Award, and faculty fellowships from Adobe, Google, and Microsoft. Additionally, Anandkumar was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s network of experts for many fields including academia, business, and the arts.

"While language models may help generate new ideas, they cannot attack the hard part of science, which is simulating the necessary physics," says AI professor Anima Anandkumar. She explains how her team developed neural operators — AI trained on the finest details of the real world — to bridge this gap, sharing recent projects ranging from improved weather forecasting to cutting-edge medical device design that demonstrate the power of AI with universal physical understanding.