2023 Dennis Gabor Award of the International Neural Network Society; Lew Allen Research Award; Laurel Wilkening Faculty Innovation Award; Microsoft Faculty Research Award; Fellow AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence); Fellow AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science); Fellow IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); 2010 Eduardo R. Caianiello Prize from the Italian Neural Network Society (SIREN); Fellow ACM (Association for Computing Machinery); Fellow ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology).
Research Experience
Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science, School of Information and Computer Sciences; Director, AI in Science Institute; Director, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics; Associate Director, Center for Machine Learning and Data Mining; Joint appointments in the Departments of Mathematics, Statistics, Biological Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering. Member of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology; Member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences.
Education
Ph.D. Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
Background
Research interests: AI and Machine Learning with particular emphasis on: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, and their Theoretical Foundations and Applications. Applications, particularly in the Natural Sciences: Physics (High-Energy Physics, Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics); Chemistry (Prediction of Molecular Properties, Prediction of Chemical Reactions, Drug Discovery, Chemoinformatics); Biology (Neuroscience, Circadian Rhythms, Gene Regulation, Omic Sciences, Protein Structure Prediction, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology). The driving interest behind my efforts is to understand natural and artificial intelligence.
Miscellany
Contact Information: Pierre Baldi, School of Information and Computer Sciences, Office: 4038 Bren Hall, University of California, Irvine (UCI), Irvine, CA 92697-3435, Phone: (949) 824-5809, Fax: (949) 824-9813, Email: pfbaldi [at] uci [dot] edu