Rina Dechter | |
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Born | August 13, 1950 |
Nationality | American, Israeli |
Alma mater | UCLA (1985, PhD) Weizmann Institute of Science (1976, MS) Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1973, BS) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence |
Institutions | Hughes Aircraft Company Technion University of California, Irvine |
Thesis | Studies in the Use and Generation of Heuristics (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | Judea Pearl |
Website | www |
Rina Dechter (born August 13, 1950) is a distinguished professor of computer science[1] in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Her research is on automated reasoning in artificial intelligence focusing on probabilistic and constraint-based reasoning.[2][3] In 2013, she was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[4]