Padhraic Smyth

Born1962 (age 62–63)

Kilmovee, County Mayo, Ireland

AlmamaterCalifornia Institute of Technology

Awards

• AAAI Fellow (2010)
• ACM Fellow (2013)

Institutions

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

Padhraic Smyth
UC Irvine Professor Padhraic Smyth[1]
Born	1962 (age 62–63) Kilmovee, County Mayo, Ireland
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology
Awards	AAAI Fellow (2010) ACM Fellow (2013)
Scientific career
Institutions	Jet Propulsion Laboratory Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
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.ics.uci.edu/~smyth/

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]