Padhraic Smyth | |
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| UC Irvine Professor Padhraic Smyth [1] | |
| Born | 1962 (age 62–63) Kilmovee, County Mayo, Ireland |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
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| Thesis | The Application of Information Theory to Problems in Decision Tree Design and Rule-Based Expert Systems (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Rodney M. Goodman |
| Website | www |
Padhraic Smyth is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science [2] serving as the inaugural Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence [3] in UC Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. He also serves as Director of UC Irvine's Data Science Initiative [4] and Associate Director for UC Irvine's Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems. [5] He was elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2010 "for significant contributions to the theory and practice of statistical machine learning". [6]