Inderjit Dhillon is an ACM, IEEE, SIAM, and AAAS fellow who is also Director of the Center for Big Data Analytics. His research interests are in machine learning, large-scale data analysis and bioinformatics. He is focused on developing novel algorithms that respect the underlying problem structure and are scalable to massive data sets. His work involves high-dimensional data analysis, divide-and-conquer methods for big data analytics, social network analysis, and predicting gene-disease associations.