Anima Anandkumar is currently Bren professor at Caltech, and works on AI algorithms and its applications to many domains in scientific areas. She is a fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAI, and has received fellowships from Schmidt Science AI 2050, Guggenheim, and Sloan foundations. She is recipient of the NSF Career award, and best paper awards at venues such as Neural Information Processing and the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for HPC-Based COVID-19 Research. She recently presented her work on AI+Science to the White House Science Council. She received her B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and her Ph.D. from Cornell University and did her postdoctoral research at MIT. She was previously a principal scientist at Amazon Web Services, and a senior director of AI research at NVIDIA.