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)
ACM Fellow (2014)
IEEE Fellow (2014)
SIAM Fellow (2014)
SIAM Linear Algebra Prize (2011)
SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (2011)
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.