Rina Dechter

Rina Dechter
Born (1950-08-13) August 13, 1950 (age 74)
NationalityAmerican, Israeli
Alma materUCLA (1985, PhD)
Weizmann Institute of Science (1976, MS)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1973, BS)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Artificial Intelligence
InstitutionsHughes Aircraft Company
Technion
University of California, Irvine
ThesisStudies in the Use and Generation of Heuristics (1985)
Doctoral advisorJudea Pearl
Websitewww.ics.uci.edu/~dechter

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]

  1. ^ "Distinguished professors". University of California, Irvine. Retrieved 2019-08-18.
  2. ^ "Rina Dechter Biographical Sketch". Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Faculty Profile: Rina Dechter". UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  4. ^ "ACM Fellows". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 18 June 2015.