Anshumali Shrivastava is an Associate Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistics at Rice University, affiliated with the George R. Brown School of Engineering. His research focuses on large-scale machine learning, randomized algorithms for big data, and graph mining. He holds a PhD from Cornell University (2015) and an MSc from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2008). His research interests span scalable deep learning, efficient neural network inference, and probabilistic algorithms. He has pioneered techniques in compressed learning, hashing-based search, and distributed optimization for handling massive datasets. Notable contributions include methods for accelerating LLM inference, memory-efficient quantization, and graph processing algorithms. Teaching: Probabilistic Algorithms, Large-Scale ML, and Machine Learning Seminars Awards: Charles W. Duncan Jr. Achievement Award (2023), Young Faculty Research Award (2021), NSF CAREER Award (2017), and multiple best paper awards His work bridges algorithm design with practical applications in recommendation systems, genomics, and edge computing. Current efforts focus on sustainable AI, hardware-aware compression, and efficient training/inference pipelines for large models.
