Forbes magazine has named Siddha Ganju, a 2016 alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University's Master of Computational Data Science program, to its annual "30 Under 30" list of the brashest entrepreneurs across 20 industries.

Forbes cited her in the category of Manufacturing and Industry.

Ganju, an artificial intelligence researcher at Nvidia in Santa Clara, California, is working on the company's self-driving car technology. She previously contributed to deep learning object recognition algorithms as a deep learning data scientist for Deep Vision Inc. in Palo Alto.

She also is co-author of an upcoming book, "Practical Deep Learning for Cloud, Mobile and Edge: Real-World AI & Computer Vision Projects Using Python, Keras & TensorFlow," a step-by-step guide for building practical applications using deep neural networks.