Nandita Vijaykumar, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Toronto

Welcome to Northern Lights: Canadian Women in Tech & Business, where we spotlight the incredible journeys of Canada's most trailblazing women. In the third episode, host Berlin Mathur is joined by Dr. Nandita Vijaykumar, an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Toronto. -- Dr. Nandita Vijaykumar is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Toronto and the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She is also affiliated with the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Robotics Institute, where she leads the embARC Research Group.Before joining the University of Toronto, Dr. Vijaykumar was a research scientist in the Memory Architecture and Accelerator Lab at Intel Labs. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in 2019 from Carnegie Mellon University, where professor Onur Mutlu and professor advised her. Phil Gibbons. She also collaborated with the Systems Group in the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich as a visiting student. Throughout her career, she has gained valuable experience working with leading companies such as AMD, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia.Dr. Vijaykumar's research interests lie in computer architecture, compilers, and systems, with a particular focus on the interaction between programming models, systems, and architectures. As the Concentration Director for the Master of Science in Applied Computing (MScAC) AI in Healthcare, Dr. Vijaykumar is responsible for developing and leading top-tier educational programs in Computational Medicine and Computational Biology. She fosters collaborations with relevant departments, the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and the Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM).