Pierre Baldi

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Pierre Baldi
Born
Alma mater University of Paris (BSc)
California Institute of Technology (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Bioinformatics
Systems Biology
Mathematics [1]
Institutions Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California Irvine
University of California, San Diego
Thesis I: On a Family of Generalized Colorings. II: Some Contributions to the Theory of Neural Networks. III: Embeddings of Ultrametric Spaces
Doctoral advisor R. M. Wilson [2]
Website www.igb.uci.edu/~pfbaldi

Pierre Baldi is a distinguished professor of computer science at University of California Irvine [3] and the director of its Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics. [4]

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Education and early life

Born in Rome (Italy), Pierre Baldi received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees at the University of Paris, in France. [5] He then obtained his Ph.D. degree in mathematics at the California Institute of Technology in 1986 supervised by R. M. Wilson. [2]

Career and research

From 1986 to 1988, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego. From 1988 to 1995, he held faculty and member of the technical staff positions at the California Institute of Technology and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was awarded the Lew Allen Award for Excellence in 1993. [6] He was CEO of a start up company called Net-ID from 1995 to 1999 and joined University of California, Irvine in 1999.[ citation needed ]

Baldi's research is focused on understanding intelligence in brains and machines, through the study of the mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning, and their applications to problems in the natural sciences, physics, chemistry, and biology.

Publications

Baldi has over 400 publications in his field of research and five books: [1] [7] [8]

Awards and honors

Baldi is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), [9] the AAAS, [10] the IEEE, [11] and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [12] He is also the recipient of the 2010 Eduardo R. Caianiello Prize for Scientific Contributions to the field of Neural Networks and a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

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References

  1. 1 2 Pierre Baldi publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. 1 2 Pierre Baldi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. List of UCI Distinguished Professors, retrieved 2020-03-23.
  4. List of IGB faculty, retrieved 2009-04-03.
  5. Footnote of the scientific paper "How delays affect neural dynamics and learning", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, July 1994 (.pdf)
  6. Lew Allen Award description.
  7. Pierre Baldi at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  8. http://www.igb.uci.edu/~pfbaldi/?page=publications - UCI publications
  9. AAAI Announces Newly-Elected Fellows, July 24, 2007.
  10. New fellows Archived 2008-01-12 at the Wayback Machine , AAAS, retrieved 2009-04-03.
  11. 2012 Newly Elevated Fellows, IEEE, accessed 2011-12-10.
  12. Pierre Baldi ACM Fellows 2012