Inderjit Dhillon

Inderjit Singh Dhillon 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.

Biography
Dhillon received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1989. 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. Dhillon joined the Computer Science faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 1999.

Academic works
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.

Honors and awards
Dhillon is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).