Inderjit Dhillon

Inderjit S. Dhillon
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology, Bombay (B.Tech.,1989)
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.,1997)
Known forBregman divergence
Tridiagonal matrix factorisation
AwardsAAAS Fellow (2016)[1]
ACM Fellow (2014)[2]
IEEE Fellow (2014)[3]
SIAM Fellow (2014)[4]
SIAM Linear Algebra Prize (2011)[5]
SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (2011)[6]
Scientific career
FieldsMachine Learning
Mathematical optimisation
InstitutionsThe University of Texas at Austin
ThesisA New O(n^2) Algorithm for the Symmetric Tridiagonal Eigenvalue/Eigenvector Problem (1997)
Doctoral advisorBeresford N. Parlett
James W. Demmel
Doctoral students
Websitehttps://www.cs.utexas.edu/~inderjit/

Inderjit Singh Dhillon (/ˈthɪln/) 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. His main research interests are in machine learning, computational learning theory, mathematical optimisation, linear algebra, data analysis, parallel computing and network analysis.

  1. ^ "2016 AAAS Fellows approved by the AAAS Council". Science. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 25 November 2016. doi:10.1126/science.354.6315.981.
  2. ^ "ACM Fellow (2014): Inderjit Dhillon". Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. For contributions to large-scale data analysis, machine learning and computational mathematics.
  3. ^ "2014 IEEE Fellows Announced". Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers. 12 December 2013.
  4. ^ "Class of 2014". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
  5. ^ "SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra: Prizes". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
  6. ^ "SIAM Outstanding Paper Prizes". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.