# Anima Anandkumar

Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech. TIME100 AI 2026, Innovators. Her lab built an AI weather forecaster that runs 45,000 times faster than standard weather models with the same accuracy. ([tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu](http://tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu/users/anima/))

- Born: Mysore, Karnataka, India ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_Anandkumar))
- Education: PhD, Electrical engineering, Cornell University, 2009; BTech, Electrical engineering, IIT Madras, 2004 ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_Anandkumar))
- Career: Accelerated Understanding (Co-founder, 2024 to now); Caltech (Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, 2017 to now); Nvidia (Senior Director of AI Research, 2018–2023); Amazon (Principal Scientist, 2016–2018); UC Irvine (Associate Professor, 2010–2017) ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anima-anandkumar), [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_Anandkumar), [tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu](http://tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu/users/anima/), [eas.caltech.edu](https://www.eas.caltech.edu/people/anima))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/anima-anandkumar/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/anima-anandkumar

- Her lab's AI weather forecasting runs 45,000 times faster than current weather models with the same accuracy. ([tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu](http://tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu/users/anima/))
- Her group trained the first AI-based high-resolution weather model, FourCastNet. ([anima-ai.org](https://anima-ai.org))
- Her lab's Fourier Neural Operator runs physics simulations at 1,000 times the speed of standard solvers. ([tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu](http://tensorlab.cms.caltech.edu/users/anima/))
- Studied the classical Indian dance Bharatanatyam for many years. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_Anandkumar))
- During her PhD she worked in IBM's networking group on end-to-end service-level transactions. ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anima_Anandkumar))
- 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](https://anima-ai.org))