HACKTECH Keynote: Anima Anandkumar
- Public Event
About the Event
Professor Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar (B.S., IIT Madras, Ph.D., Cornell) is the Bren Professor of Computing at Caltech, former Director of AI Research at NVIDIA, TIME100 Impact Award recipient, and the youngest endowed faculty chair at Caltech. She specializes in large-scale machine learning, non-convex optimization, and high-dimensional statistics. She has pioneered the development of tensor algorithms, which are essential for processing multidimensional data and achieving massive parallelism in large-scale AI applications. Beyond her academic pursuits, Professor Anandkumar co-founded the AI for Science initiative at Caltech in 2018 and was invited by the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on AI+Science in 2023.
The title of her talk is "AI+Science: How can AI make groundbreaking scientific discoveries?"
Everyone is welcome to attend. Admission is free.
About Hacktech
Hacktech is Caltech's annual hackathon. This year is Hacktech's 11th iteration, and the event will be held in-person from April 25-27, 2025 for over 300 college students nationwide.