Indian Americans Aditya Grover, Bharath Kannan, and Aditi Raghunathan have earned recognition on Forbes’ 30 under 30 list for their contributions to science.
Aditya Grover, currently an assistant professor at UCLA, has assumed diverse teaching roles, including the creation of a unique course on AI and climate change in 2022. This year, he spearheaded the development of ClimaX, the first AI-based weather and climate model, tailored for tasks like weather forecasting and climate pattern prediction. Heading the Machine Intelligence group, Grover focuses on crafting AI systems capable of independent interaction and reasoning.
Bharath Kannan, co-founder of Atlantic Quantum, concentrates on addressing the challenges of high error rates in quantum computing. His company’s recent paper highlighted a quantum computing architecture with notably low error rates. Having secured $9 million in financial backing, Kannan also secured a $1.25 million contract with the Air Force in September. His educational journey includes undergraduate studies at Rutgers University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Aditi Raghunathan, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, directs her efforts towards enhancing the reliability of AI systems in safety-critical applications like healthcare and self-driving cars. Acknowledging the brittleness of current AI systems, prone to catastrophic errors, Raghunathan focuses on identifying and mitigating failure modes. Her academic journey includes a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
