Previously, she was a senior director of Machine Learning research at NVIDIA and a principal scientist at Amazon Web Services.
[9][10] She represented Amazon Web Services at the Anita Borg Institute in 2017, the Mulan forum for Chinese women entrepreneurs and Shaastra in 2018, discussing Deep Learning.
[13] In 2018, Anandkumar joined NVIDIA as director of Machine Learning Research, and Caltech as the Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences.
She has developed AI-based high-resolution weather models,[21] an AI-aided method for designing anti-infection medical catheters.
[22] Neural operators were featured as a highlight for 2021 in Math and Computer Science by the Quanta Magazine,[23] and genome-scale foundation models with emergent behavior in predicting evolutionary dynamics and protein function in several diverse tasks and scenarios,[24] which won the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research in 2022.
She launched a petition to Timothy A. Gonsalves to try and convince him at the Ministry of Human Resource Development to end gender segregation in the admissions process at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
[33] The petition calls for campus-wide systems to monitor sexual harassment, improved campus security and increased engagement with alumni.
[33][34] She has spoken openly about her own experiences of sexual harassment on social media and called for Intel to stop using female acrobats as entertainment at their conference parties.
[39] Following prompt backlash from individuals concerned about the circulation of such a blacklist, Anandkumar deactivated her Twitter account temporarily and issued an apology stating "I am by no means perfect.
My intention was to change hearts and minds, and to raise awareness to the struggles that women and minorities face both online and in the real world.