Padhraic Smyth

Padhraic Smyth is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science serving as the inaugural Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence in UC Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. He also serves as Director of UC Irvine's Data Science Initiative and Associate Director for UC Irvine's Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems. 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".