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AI for Science: Heralding Breakthroughs Through AI

Posted Oct 21, 2022 | Views 604
# TransformX 2022
# Keynote
# Computer Vision
# Climate Change
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Anima Anandkumar
Director of ML Research @ NVIDIA

Anima Anandkumar is a Bren Professor at Caltech and Director of ML Research at NVIDIA. She was previously a Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services. She has received several honors such as Alfred. P. Sloan Fellowship, NSF Career Award, Young investigator awards from DoD, and Faculty Fellowships from Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Adobe. She is part of the World Economic Forum's Expert Network. She is passionate about designing principled AI algorithms and applying them in interdisciplinary applications. Her research focus is on unsupervised AI, optimization, and tensor methods.

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As the Director of AI Research at NVIDIA, Dr. Anandkumar shares some of the highest-impact topics her team is researching—from better weather modeling to tackle climate change, to modeling CO2 carbon capture and storage, to coronavirus aerosol simulation and drug discovery. Previously, Anandkumar helped launch Amazon SageMaker, Comprehend, and Rekognition at AWS (Amazon Web Services). She is also the Bren Professor at Caltech’s CMS (Computing + Mathematical Sciences) Department and serves as part of the expert network of the World Economic Forum.

Building on her seminal paper that covers the initial development of tensor algorithms, Dr. Anandkumar presents her research on Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs), which in some cases can replace computationally costly Navier-Stokes equations that underpin many fluid dynamics simulations such as weather forecasting models and drug discovery processes. She advocates the use of the Fourier transform in neural networks to make them discretization- (or even quantization-) invariant. By replacing brute-force computational approaches with FNOs running on GPUs, Dr. Anandkumar is able to reduce the complexity of the simulation of weather modeling (a 45,000x speed-up) and carbon capture and sequestration (a more than 10,000x speed-up).

Join Dr. Anandkumar as she will inspire attendees to apply FNOs, smarter model architectures, and parallel computation to solve the public health and climate crises of our time.

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