Dr. Rina Dechter @ UCI

Prof. Rina Dechter, Ph.D
Artificial Intelligence
Office: DBH 4232
Phone: 1.949.824.6556
Email: dechter_at_ics.uci.edu

Highlights and News

Large NSF Grant		Rina Dechter, with Others, Receives a $5M NSF Grant to Improve AI-Based Causal Decision Making
AAAS FELLOW		7 UCI Researchers Are Elected AAAS Fellows
FACULTY SPOTLIGHT		Rina Dechter is Pushing the Frontiers of Research
AIJ 2020 CLASSIC PAPER AWARD		Dechter, Meiri and Pearl received the 2020 AIJ Classic Paper Award for their 1991 paper Temporal Constraint Networks. (Previous recipients of the award can be found here)
DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR		A Trio of New Distinguished Professors in ICS
BOOK (2019)		Second edition of my book: "Reasoning with Probabilistic and Deerministic Graphical Models" just appeared
NEWS		Charles River Analytics uses FIGRAO to develop probabilistic reasoning tools for US Air Force satellites
PACE CHALLENGE (2016)		Our CVO algorithm won first place in the parallel heuristic treewidth category of the 1st Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments (PACE) Challenge. (link / paper / slides)
BOOK (2013)		Reasoning with Probabilistic and Deterministic Graphical Models: Exact Algorithms
AWARD		2013 ACM Fellow (link 1 / link 2)
PASCAL CHALLENGE (2012)		Solvers by current and former students won first places in all nine categories of the 2011 PASCAL Probabilistic Inference Challenge. (link 1 / link 2)
UAI COMPETITION (2010)		Our solvers IJGP and FormulaSampleSearch won first places in two categories each, Daoopt won third place in three categories. (link 1 / link 2)
MINI-SCHOOL		UCI Lifted Algorithms Mini-School (November 3-6)
BOOK (2010)		'Heuristic, probability and Causality: a tribute to Judea Pearl' (link)
IJCAI 2013 TUTORIAL		Constraint Processing and Probabilistic Reasoning
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Current Graduate Students and Postdocs

Bobak Pezeshki [ www ]
Annie Raichev [ www ]
Nicholas Cohen [ www ]

Graduated Students and Postdocs

Junkyu Lee [ www ] Graduated December 2020
William Lam [ www ] Graduated June 2017
Natalia Flerova [ www ] Graduated June 2015
Andrew Gelfand [ www ] Graduated June 2014
Lars Otten [ www ] Graduated March 2013
Emma Rollon [mail ] 2009
Vibhav Gogate [ www ] Graduated June 2009
Tuan Nguyen [ www ] Graduated 2009
Radu Marinescu [ www ] Graduated June 2008
Robert Mateescu [ www ] Graduated June 2007
Bozhena Biduk [ www ] Graduated June 2006
Javier Larrosa [ www | mail ] 2000-2001
Kalev Kask [ www | mail ] Graduated June 2002
Irina Rish [ www | mail ] Graduated June 1999
Eddie Schwalb [ www | mail ] Graduated May, 1998
Dan Frost [ www | mail ] Graduated June 1997
Lluis Vila [ www | mail ]
Rachel Ben Eliyahu [ www | mail ] Graduated 1994 (UCLA)
Itay Meiri [ www | mail ] Graduated 1992 (UCLA)
Zeev Collin [ www | mail ] MSc, Technion, 1990