Dr. Rina Dechter @ UCI :: Constraint Processing, the book (original) (raw)
Prof. Rina Dechter, Ph.D
Artificial Intelligence
Office: DBH 4232
Phone: 1.949.824.6556
Email: dechter_at_ics.uci.edu
Highlights and News
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (2025) | I am honored to have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recognizing my contributions to automated reasoning. |
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| LEADERS IN CAUSAL REASONING (2025) | With Rina Dechter as the chair, UCI hosts a Southern California workshop bringing together leaders in Causal Reasoning. (Abstracts and talks can be found on the website). |
| LARGE NSF GRANT (2023) | Rina Dechter, with Others, Receives a $5M NSF Grant to Improve AI-Based Causal Decision Making. |
| AAAS FELLOW (2022) | 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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