Inderjit Singh Dhillon (/ˈthɪloʊn/) is the Gottesman Family Centennial Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics and Director of the ICES Center for Big Data Analytics at the University of Texas at Austin.

He subsequently worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a Research Staff Member under Dr. Narendra Karmarkar.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997 under the direction of Beresford Parlett and James Demmel.

[citation needed] Dhillon's main research interests are in machine learning, data analysis and computational mathematics.

His emphasis is on developing novel algorithms that respect the underlying problem structure and are scalable to large data sets.