Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar

Anandkumar has done seminal work in Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacting a broad range of scientific domains. 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. These are built on the foundations of Neural Operators, an AI framework she developed for scientific modeling and solving partial differential equations (PDE).