At the end of 2017, there will be 8.4 billion connected things in use worldwide up 31 percent from 2016, and this figure is expected to reach 20.4 billion by 2020. When Internet of Things (IoT) as an industry took off in India, it spawned a host of startups selling edge devices that could gather and crunch data from corporate customers. These startups ran into one fundamental problem, which was data lifting. The data was so voluminous that these startups took so much time to organise them that they ran out of money to keep the companies afloat. In the end, their services were just organising data for customers with very little insights.

Anima Anandkumar pioneered the research of finding global optimal in non-convex problems, a big pain point in machine learning. Our protagonist for this week's Techie Tuesdays, Anima is an academician who represents the best of both worlds--industry and academia. She has contributed significantly to major AI and ML projects at Amazon. This is a treat for all machine learning enthusiasts. In my two hours of conversation with Anima Anandkumar, Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services, I was injected with the most potent dose of technical knowledge. Not that I didn't expect it while talking to an ex-faculty of UC Irvine (soon to be an endowed professor at Caltech), known for her research on non-convex problems (in deep learning). Our Techie Tuesdays protagonist of the week, Anima has worked towards establishing a strong collaboration between academia and industry. She follows an unconventional style of teaching, the one she would have loved as a student.

Anima Anandkumar pioneered the research of finding global optimal in non-convex problems, a big pain point in machine learning. Our protagonist for this week's Techie Tuesdays, Anima is an academician who represents the best of both worlds--industry and academia. She has contributed significantly to major AI and ML projects at Amazon. This will be a treat for all machine learning enthusiasts. In my two hours of conversation with Anima Anandkumar, Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services, I've had the most potent dose of technical knowledge ever injected. Not that I didn't expect it while talking to an ex-faculty of UC Irvine (soon to be an endowed professor at Caltech), known for her research on non-convex problems (in deep learning). Our Techie Tuesdays protagonist of the week, Anima has worked towards establishing a strong collaboration between academia and industry. She follows an unconventional style of teaching, the one she would have loved as a student.