Dr. Mausam

Mausam is the founding head of Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence, and Professor of Computer Science at IIT Delhi. He is also an affiliate professor at University of Washington, Seattle. With a twenty-year research experience in artificial intelligence, he has, over time, contributed to many research areas such as large-scale information extraction over the Web, multilingual NLP, knowledge base completion, question answering, summarization and probabilistic planning algorithms. He has over 100 archival papers to his credit, along with a book, two best paper awards, and one test of time award. Mausam was awarded the AAAI Senior Member status in 2015 for his long-term participation in American Association of Artificial Intelligence, and distinction in the field of artificial intelligence. He has had the privilege of being a program chair for two top conferences, AAAI 2021, and ICAPS 2017. He was ranked the 56th most influential NLP scholar and 64th most influential AI scholar by ArnetMiner AI2000 Ranking in 2021. He received his PhD from University of Washington in 2007 and a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi in 2001. More..