His broad research interests include large scale machine learning, randomized algorithms for big data systems and graph mining. His research on hashing inner products won Best Paper Award at NIPS 2014 while his work on representing graphs got the Best Paper Award at IEEE/ACM ASONAM 2014. He obtained his Ph. D. in computer science from Cornell University. Before joining Cornell, he worked as a scientist at FICO research Bangalore, India. Anshumali’s undergraduate major was mathematics and computing from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.