Anima Anandkumar
Anima Anandkumar is Caltech’s Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. Her research develops mathematical methods for machine learning and scientific AI. She studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Cornell, then held a postdoctoral position at MIT. A 2012 paper with collaborators examined tensor methods for finding hidden structure in data. She later coauthored the Fourier Neural Operator paper and joined the FourCastNet weather forecasting author team. Neural operators learn mappings between functions, which makes them useful for families of scientific equations. Her career has also included roles at Amazon Web Services and NVIDIA. Her work connects machine learning with physical processes and scientific tests.
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Timeline
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2009 and after
Doctoral and postdoctoral research
Completed a Cornell doctorate in 2009 and later held an MIT postdoctoral position.
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2012
Learning hidden structure
Coauthored tensor methods for recovering hidden structure in data.
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2017
Joining Caltech
Became a Caltech Bren Professor in 2017.
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2020
Fourier neural operators
Coauthored the Fourier Neural Operator paper.
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2022
A shared weather model
Joined the FourCastNet global weather forecasting author team.
Sources and credits
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