Interview with AAAI Fellow Anima Anandkumar: Neural Operators for science and engineering problems

Each year the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) recognizes a group of individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence by appointing them as Fellows. We've been talking to some of the 2024 AAAI Fellows to find out more about their research. In this interview, we meet Anima Anandkumar and find out about her work on Neural Operators, of which she is the inventor. Neural Operators are able to learn complex physical phenomena that occur at multiple resolutions while standard neural networks are unable to do so. Standard neural networks use a fixed number of pixels or resolution to learn a phenomenon, while neural operators represent data as continuous functions.