Scholar
Rina Dechter
Google Scholar ID: PI_3bqEAAAAJ
University of California, Irvine
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,514
H-index
24
i10-index
60
Publications
20
Co-authors
15
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the IJCAI 2025 Research Excellence Award; Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2025; 2020 AIJ Classic Paper Award for the 1991 paper 'Temporal Constraint Networks'; 2013 ACM Fellow; In 2012, solvers by current and former students won first places in all nine categories of the PASCAL Probabilistic Inference Challenge; In 2010, our solvers IJGP and FormulaSampleSearch won first places in two categories each in the UAI Competition; Published multiple books including the second edition of 'Reasoning with Probabilistic and Deterministic Graphical Models' (2019).
Research Experience
- Chaired the Southern California workshop on Causal Reasoning at UCI; involved in significant research projects such as receiving a $5M NSF grant to improve AI-based causal decision making.
Education
- School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3435
Background
- Research Interests: Automated Reasoning, Knowledge-Representation, Planning and Learning. Professional Field: Artificial Intelligence, with a focus on graphical models for automated reasoning.
Miscellany
- Charles River Analytics uses FIGRAO to develop probabilistic reasoning tools for US Air Force satellites.
