Anima Anandkumar

Scientific Advisor

Anima Anandkumar has done seminal work in Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacting a broad range of scientific domains. She invented Neural Operators, a deep learning framework for scientific modeling such as solving partial differential equations (PDE). She developed the first AI-based high-resolution weather model, tens of thousands of times faster than current forecasting systems, that is running at weather agencies, and widely adopted by both academia and industry. Her AI algorithms have enabled many other scientific advances such as designing a novel medical device, inventing an anti-cancer drug currently in clinical trials, and safer autonomous drone flights. Anima is currently a Bren professor at Caltech and a fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and AAAI. She has received several awards, including the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 senior fellow, awards from the Guggenheim, Alfred P. Sloan and Blavatnik Foundations, the NSF Career Award, the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and best paper awards at venues such as Neural Information Processing and the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for HPC-Based COVID-19 Research.