Anima Anandkumar has joined the MLconf Board of Advisors!
I’m excited to announce that Dr. Anima Anandkumar has agreed to join MLconf’s board of advisors! Dr. Anandkumar is a principal scientist at Amazon Web Services and a Bren Professor in the CMS Department at CalTech. We’ve been following her since 2014, when we invited her to present at MLconf, in New York. Anima has presented her work in tensor methods nearly annually since; and in 2017 she keynoted MLconf SF when she presented Large-scale Machine Learning: Deep, Distributed and Multi-Dimensional.
Anima’s accomplishments are numerous and impressive. Just recently, Dr. Anandkumar was the youngest professor to be included in a cohort of named professors, the most distinguished award for individual faculty that CalTech offers. She is the recipient of several awards such as the Alfred. P. Sloan Fellowship, Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, Google research award, ARO and AFOSR Young Investigator Awards, NSF Career Award, Early Career Excellence in Research Award at UCI, Best Thesis Award from the ACM Sigmetrics society, IBM Fran Allen PhD fellowship, and several best paper awards. She received her B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras in 2004 and her PhD from Cornell University in 2009. She was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT from 2009 to 2010, an assistant professor at U.C. Irvine between 2010 and 2016, a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research New England in 2012 and 2014, a Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services since 2016 and a Bren professor at Caltech since 2017.
Dr. Kumar has 150 published papers, check out her impressive google scholar page here.
Dr. Anandkumar has shared her beliefs about workplace innovation in an online interview here last September. She’s a pioneer for women in tech as well. She’s mentored several women and is vocal about the inequalities that women engineers face. At Amazon, Anandkumar has been able to help influence a diverse team through hiring and she’s passionate about being inclusive. She’s committed to inclusion, including her petition to Prof. Timothy Gonsalves & the HRD Ministry of India against the segregation of women in the admission process to the IITs. She’s taken her bravery to a higher level, by sharing her own #metoo story and speaking up for victims of sexual harassment on public forums on twitter and Facebook.
We enjoy Anima’s enthusiasm and intellect. We’re incredibly grateful to have her on the board of advisors!
Past MLconf Talks:
MLconf SF 2017: Keynote Presentation: Large-scale Machine Learning: Deep, Distributed and Multi-Dimensional
MLconf SF 15: Tensor Methods – A New Paradigm for Training Probabilistic Models, Neural Networks and Reinforcement Learning
MLconf Seattle 2015: Tensor Methods: A New Paradigm for Training Probabilistic Models and Feature Learning
MLconf NYC 2014: Tensor Decomposition Techniques for learning Models
Relevant Links:
https://www.change.org/p/hrd-ministry-of-india-reservations-for-women-in-iit-entrance-exam-is-counterproductive-and-regressive
http://www.caltech.edu/content/caltech-celebrates-newest-cohort-named-professors
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bEcLezcAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/anima.anandkumar/posts/10104716304619535
