Short Bio:

Ashish Sabharwal is a Research Associate in Computer Science at
Cornell University, and works at the Intelligent Information Systems
Institute. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of
Washington, Seattle in 2005. His research interests include
combinatorial methods, probabilistic inference, multi-agent
reasoning, connections to statistical physics, game theory, algorithm
design, and complexity. He has (co-)authored over 30 publications and
surveys, including two Best Paper Awards and four best paper
nominations.