TIME100 AI 2026 · Innovators
Anima Anandkumar
Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech
Her lab built an AI weather forecaster that runs 45,000 times faster than standard weather models with the same accuracy.
- Born
- Mysore, Karnataka, India
- Now
- Co-founder, Accelerated Understanding
- Studied
- Cornell University, IIT Madras
Interesting facts
- First
Her group trained the first AI-based high-resolution weather model, FourCastNet.
anima-ai.org - Numbers
Her lab's Fourier Neural Operator runs physics simulations at 1,000 times the speed of standard solvers.
tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu - Side project
Studied the classical Indian dance Bharatanatyam for many years.
en.wikipedia.org - Before AI
During her PhD she worked in IBM's networking group on end-to-end service-level transactions.
en.wikipedia.org - First
Her group used a physics-informed neural network to find evidence that the 3D Euler equations of fluid flow can blow up in finite time.
anima-ai.org
Career
- Accelerated UnderstandingCo-founder2024 to now
- CaltechBren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences2017 to now
- NvidiaSenior Director of AI Research2018–2023
- AmazonPrincipal Scientist, AWS2016–2018
- UC IrvineAssociate Professor2010–2017
Education
- PhD, Electrical engineering, Cornell University, 2009
- BTech, Electrical engineering, IIT Madras, 2004
Sources1en.wikipedia.org
