- Got a faculty position at UC Irvine during the recession. Attended N(eur)IPS conference for the first time.
- Discovered the power of tensors for machine learning and it became my core research focus.
- Received many awards such as Sloan fellowship, Microsoft faculty fellowship and NSF Career Award.
- Moved to AWS as principal scientist to build some of the first cloud AI applications. Got to deploy tensor algorithms in production.
- Became the youngest named chair professor at Caltech, the highest honor bestowed on individual faculty.
- Started the ML research group at NVIDIA while continuing my work at Caltech.
- Founded AI4science with Yisong Yue to accelerate interdisciplinary AI research at Caltech.
- Shared my #meToo experiences and pushed for NeurIPS name change to help improve the climate for women and minorities in AI.
- Having grandkids: academically speaking. Many of my students and mentees became faculty members and formed thriving research groups.
- Continue to learn and grow. Lucky to have had amazing opportunities and experiences.
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