Anima Anandkumar
Indian-American computer scientist
Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar is the Bren Professor of Computing at California Institute of Technology. She is also the co-founder of Accelerated Understanding. Previously, she was a senior director of Machine Learning research at NVIDIA and a principal scientist at Amazon Web Services. Her research considers tensor-algebraic methods, deep learning and non-convex problems.
Education and early career
Anandkumar was born in Mysore. Her parents are both engineers, and her grandfather was a mathematician. Her great-great-grandfather was the Sanskrit scholar R. Shamasastry. She began to study Bharatanatyam and she learnt this style of dancing for many years. She studied electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and graduated in 2004. She attended Cornell University for her graduate studies, earning a PhD under the supervision of Lang Tong in 2009.
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