Inderjit Dhillon

Prof. 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.

Prof. 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. In computational mathematics, he is best known for his work on developing the first numerically stable O(n^2) algorithm for the symmetric tridiagonal eigenvalue problem, His software is now part of LAPACK, and is the method of choice in various software packages, such as the function "eigen" in R. In machine learning, Dhillon is well known for his work on clustering and co-clustering high dimensional data sets, metric and kernel learning, inverse covariance estimation, divide-and-conquer methods, and NOMADic methods for large-scale problems in machine learning.

Prof. 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). In addition, he has received the ICES Distinguished Research Award, the SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, the Moncrief Grand Challenge Award, the SIAM Linear Algebra Prize, the University Research Excellence Award, and the NSF Career Award.