Anima Anandkumar, a Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has been selected to receive the 2025 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award for her outstanding early- to mid-career contributions to technologies with innovative applications, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The award recognizes her contributions to AI, including tensor methods and neural operators, which she has applied to a wide range of scientific problems, from modeling aerosolized particles of the virus that causes COVID-19 to improving methods of drug design. Anandkumar is a leader in AI research and has developed unifying theoretical frameworks for machine learning algorithms. She is also a fellow of IEEE and the Association of Computing Machinery, and has received several honors, including an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NSF Career Award.
Steven H. Low, the Frank J. Gilloon Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Electrical Engineering at Caltech, has been selected to receive the Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for his outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and communications. Low is best known for the development of a mathematical theory of internet congestion control and the design and deployment of a congestion control algorithm known as FAST TCP for high-speed data transfer over long distances. This protocol has been accelerating more than 1 terabyte of internet traffic every second since 2014. Low’s research focuses on cyber-physical systems, networking, and smart grid. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 1987 and his doctoral degree from UC Berkeley in 1992. Before joining the Caltech faculty as an associate professor in 2000, Low was at AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey and the University of Melbourne in Australia. He is a fellow of IEEE, the Association of Computing Machinery, and the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, and has won the IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award and the ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award.
