Anil Ananthaswamy

Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning science writer and former staff writer and deputy news editor for the London-based New Scientist magazine. He is a 2019-20 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow. He organizes and teaches an annual science writing workshop at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru, India. Anil writes for regularly for New Scientist, Quanta, Scientific American, Nature, and has contributed to Nautilus, Matter, The Wall Street Journal, Discover and the UK’s Literary Review, among others. He is the author of three popular science books (The Edge of Physics, The Man Who Wasn’t There and Through Two Doors at Once). His next book, Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI, will be published on July 16 by Dutton (Penguin Random House).