Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and
what you do are in harmony.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
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Professor, Jai Gupta Chair
Department of Computer Science and Engineering Room 402, School of IT Building Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi, 110016, India Email: mausam AT cse DOT iitd DOT ac DOT in, Phone : +91-11-2659-6076 (O) |
Associate Faculty
Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence (Yardi ScAI) Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi, 110016, India |
Affiliate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Seattle, Washington, 98195, U.S.A. Email: mausam AT cs DOT washington DOT edu Phone : +1-206-979-7038 (C) |
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Starting 15th July 2024, for a year, I will be on a sabbatical, spending time as a Visiting NLP Researcher in Bloomberg's Artificial Intelligence Group. During this period I will generally be unavailable to participate in most academic, governmental or research committees, to be a thesis reviewer, or to initiate new research projects, be it with a company or any other institution. I may not be able to personally respond to emails or have very delayed responses, except from my PhD students or existing collaborators. I apologize in advance.
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Bio Mausam is a Professor of Computer Science at IIT Delhi, and served as the founding head of Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence until September 2023. He is also an affiliate professor at University of Washington, Seattle. He is currently on a sabbatical working as a Visiting NLP Researcher at Bloomberg's AI group. With an over 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, AI approaches for optimizing crowdsourced workflows, and probabilistic planning algorithms. More recently, his research is exploring neuro-symbolic machine learning, computer vision for radiology, NLP for robotics, multilingual NLP, and several threads in intelligent information systems that include information extraction, knowledge base completion, question answering, summarization and dialogue systems. 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 Fellow status in 2024 for his sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and unusual distinction in the profession. 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. |
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Newsworthy In Jun'24 I was interviewed by AI Hub in their meet with AAAI Fellows series. I discuss my career, information extraction, mentorship and creativity. Humbled and honored to be elected as a AAAI Fellow, for my contributions to NLP, Planning and Human Computation, as well as my leadership in AI. The induction ceremony was at the Fellows Dinner at AAAI 2024. A bit overwhelmed, as this is one of most prestigious international honors an AI researcher can get. Thank you to all mentors, collaborators, and students over the years. My NPTEL (public) undergraduate (MOOC) course on artificial intelligence reruns next starting Jan'24. I have been teaching it every year to about 40,000 students. In Dec'23 I appeared on an informal podcast on the future of education. Had excellent results at EMNLP 2023 -- got four submissions accepted on (1) can GPT4 solve IIT-JEE problems?, (2) how to reduce LLM cost without compromising quality?, (3) low-resource language adapters, and (4) neuro-symbolic temporal knowledge-base completion. Elated to share that this ACL 2023 accepted all six of our submissions (including one in ACL Findings). The six papers are on various aspects of intelligent information systems, including information extraction, knowledge base completion, question answering, and dialog systems. Excited to share my first CVPR paper on automatic detection and counting of different types of cells found in histopathology biopsies, useful for predicting Celiac disease. Collaboration with gastroenterologists at AIIMS, New Delhi. In Mar/Apr'23 I gave bites to three articles: Times of India article and another Times of India article, both on using ChatGPT in education, and a third Silicon India article on generative AI in Indian languages. Honored to receive the ACL'22 test of time award for OLLIE, which contributed an approach for extracting information in an open-domain way, without supervised training data. Here are my acceptance comments when receiving the award in Dublin, Ireland. In May'22 I appeared on Dostcast and did an informal podcast on AI in mixed Hindi-English. Excited to become an editor-in-chief at ACL Rolling Review. Feel free to send me an email to help improve ARR. Had excellent results at ACL 2022 -- got all three of our submissions accepted. The three papers are on multilingual information extraction. In Mar'21 I gave bites to a Times of India article on natural language processing. Proud to be a program co-chair of AAAI 2021 with Kevin Leyton-Brown. ArnetMiner believes that I am the 56th most influential NLP scholar and 64th most influential AI scholar for the decade 2010-2020. Not sure I deserve to be in this list of greats, but happy to receive the honor, nonetheless! In Oct'20 I was one of the panelists for Doordarshan program on AI and roadmap. In Oct'20 I was one of the panelists for a Rajya Sabha TV program on AI for social empowerment. In Mar'20 I gave bites to a Mail Today article on AI education in India. In Jan'20 I was one of the panelists for a Rajya Sabha TV program on regulating AI. In Oct'19 I was one of the panelists for a Rajya Sabha TV program on AI. In Jun'19 I gave bites to an Economics Times article on AI and India. In Jun'19 I was one of the panelists for a DD Science program on AI in Hindi. In Feb'19, I received the Jai Gupta Chair fellowship by IIT Delhi. In Feb'19 I was interviewed by Factor Daily. The transcript of the interview. In Oct'18 I was honored to participate in a Niti Aayog panel on AI in front of esteemed audience comprising the PM, council of ministers, heads of PSUs and senior bureaucrats in the Govt of India. In Oct'18 I was interviewed as one of the experts for a Lok Sabha TV program on AI (in Hindi). In Sep'18 I was interviewed as one of the experts for Rajya Sabha TV features on AI: the video in English and the video in Hindi. In Aug'18 I gave bites to an India Today article on the future of AI. In Jan'18 I recorded a public talk on Artificial Intelligence: Past, Present and Future and a Student Q&A session for Living Science. In Jun'17 I was a Program co-chair for the 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling in Pittsburgh. In Jul'16 I was invited to deliver a talk in the Early Career Spotlight Track at IJCAI'16 in New York. In Jul'16 our STARAI'16 paper titled Contextual Symmetries in Probabilistic Graphical Models received the best paper award. In Jun'16 I was elected as a councilor to AAAI Executive Council for a three year term. In Apr'16 I was awarded a Young Faculty Research Fellowship under the Visvesvaraya PhD scheme for Electronics & IT by Govt. of India. In Apr'16 I was interviewed by ML India. The transcript of the interview. In Jan'15 at AAAI'15, I was awarded the AAAI Senior status, a distinction in the field of artificial intelligence. In Jan'15 I was awarded a Teaching Excellence Award for my Spring 2014's AI course. In Sep'14 I appeared on NDTV Profit to defend Artificial Intelligence at a debate show titled, The Contrarian. In Nov'13 at HCOMP, our paper titled Crowdsourcing Multi-Label Classification for Taxonomy Creation received the best paper award. In Oct'13 I joined as a faculty member at IIT Delhi after a six year research faculty stint at University of Washington, Seattle. In Jul'12 Andrey Kolobov and I released a monograph titled Planning with Markov Decision Processes: An AI Perspective. In Sep'08 I was awarded an honorable mention for the 2008 ICAPS best disseration award. In Oct'07 I joined University of Washington as a Research Assistant Professor. In Aug'07 I completed my PhD thesis on stochastic planning with concurrent, durative actions. |
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Research At present I am working on the following projects:
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Hobbies In my personal time, I can be found listening to, playing, or singing hindustani classical music. I have got the fortune of accompanying several famed vocalists on harmonium, including Pt. Vidyadhar Vyas, Vidushi Sunanda Patnaik, Us. Mashkoor Ali Khan, Smt. Bharathi Prathap, and my dear wife, Shashwati Mandal. In my previous life, I performed with a Seattle light Indian music band called Pratidhwani (my last show was Kashish in December 2012). Even before that, I was involved with Seattle's local cricket tournament where I tried my fingers at off-spinning. World cinema and cooking were my other favorite pastimes.
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