Anima Anandkumar has done pioneering work in AI such as inventing Neural Operators for scientific discovery, including extreme weather forecasting, drug discovery, and engineering design. She is a Bren professor at Caltech, and a fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and AAAI. She has received the Time100 Impact Award, IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, the Guggenheim and the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 senior fellowships. She was previously principal scientist at AWS and senior director of AI at NVIDIA.