Short Bio:

Ashish Sabharwal is a Research Associate in Computer Science at Cornell
University, and works at Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS) and
the Intelligent Information Systems Institute (IISI). He received his M.S.
and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2001/2005, and was a
Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell till 2008. His research interests include
combinatorial methods, probabilistic inference, multi-agent reasoning,
connections to statistical physics, game theory, algorithm design, and
complexity. Most recently, his work involves appying these techniques to
applications in Computational Sustainability, ranging from wildlife
conservation to sustainable community development and discovery of new
materials. He has (co-)authored over 30 publications and surveys, including
two Best Paper Awards, one Runner-Up Prize, and four best paper nominations.