Title Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Department University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Biography
Ranjitha Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Chief Scientist at Apropose, Inc., a data-driven design company she founded in 2013, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and New Enterprise Associates. Her research has received best paper awards and nominations at premiere conferences in HCI, and been recognized by the machine learning community through invited papers at IJCAI and ICML. She received her PhD from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University in 2014.