May 11, 2018
In this week’s #DataTalk, we talked with Dr. Anima Anandkumar, Principal Scientist at Amazon AI and Bren Professor at Caltech, about what data scientists need to know about deep learning and how to scale deep learning frameworks.
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.