Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Research Assistant Professor The Turing Center Department of Computer Science and Engg Paul Allen Center, Box 352350 University of Washington Seattle, Washington, 98195, U.S.A. Email : mausam AT cs DOT washington DOT edu Phone : 206-685-1964 (O), 206-979-7038 (C)

Research My main research interests are in the field of Artificial Intelligence. At present I am working on two projects: Formal Inference in Translation Graph: Developing probabilistic inference techniques to formalize inference in translation graphs, a graph that is formed by combining all available dictionaries between all possible languages in the world. An efficient and high quality inference procedure will enable the system to produce good translations from a sense in one language to several languages, even when there is no available dictionary between the exact pair of languages. More details on the Panimages website. Large-scale Probabilistic Planning: Exploiting the availability of external memory to solve large Markov Decision Processes. We hope to alleviate the memory bottleneck in solving the large MDPs and scale to large, industry sized probabilistic planning problems. A recent paper on this work.