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Anima Anandkumar

Director of Machine Learning Research
NVIDIA

Anima Anandkumar offers a combination of leading-edge academic research with equally deep expe-rience in business and practical applications. She specializes in using artificial intelligence (AI) in cloud computing to solve real-world problems. Ms. Anandkumar is the director of machine learning research at NVIDIA, a Bren professor at Caltech and a former principal scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS). While at AWS, Ms. Anandkumar was head of research and development, providing enterprises with AI tools. These include applications for image, scene and face recognition, chatbot development tools and real-time text-to-speech translation. But AI can be applied to an almost limitless range of practical and business problems, and she is at the forefront of this expansion, as both a theorist and a practitioner. Ms. Anandkumar also speaks on innovation in the broader sense. She is a champion for enabling AI methods and tools in every part of the cloud and for the kind of progressive, incremental improvements in performance that can make a big difference over time — the same kind of processes with which machines learn. In addition to her position at NVIDIA, Ms. Anandkumar holds the endowed Bren chair at CalTech. She has received numerous awards and honors, including an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, a Google faculty award and a number of other research and best paper awards. She has been featured in several documentaries and media articles.

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