Pedro Domingos
Professor Emeritus of computer science and engineering (born 1965)
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Pedro Domingos (born 1965) is a Professor Emeritus[2] of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. He is a researcher in machine learning known for Markov logic network enabling uncertain inference.[3][4]
Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon (MS, Licentiate)
AAAI Fellowship (2010)
Sloan Fellowship (2003)
Fulbright Scholarship (1992-1997)
Pedro Domingos | |
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Domingos in 2023 | |
| Born | 1965 (age 60–61)[1] |
| Alma mater | University of California, Irvine (MS, PhD) Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon (MS, Licentiate) |
| Known for | The Master Algorithm Markov logic network |
| Awards | SIGKDD Innovation Award (2014) AAAI Fellowship (2010) Sloan Fellowship (2003) Fulbright Scholarship (1992-1997) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Artificial intelligence Machine learning Data science |
| Institutions | University of Washington |
| Thesis | A Unified Approach to Concept Learning (1997) |
| Dennis F. Kibler | |
Doctoral students | Tessa Lau |
| Website | homes |
Education
Domingos received an undergraduate degree and Master of Science degree from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).[5] He moved to the University of California, Irvine, where he received a Master of Science degree followed by his PhD.[5]
Research and career
After spending two years as an assistant professor at IST, he joined the University of Washington as an assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering in 1999 and became a full professor in 2012.[6] He started a machine learning research group at the hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co. in 2018,[7] but left in 2019.[8]
He co-founded the International Machine Learning Society. As of 2018, he was on the editorial board of Machine Learning journal.[9]
Publications
- Pedro Domingos, The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, New York, Basic Books, 2015, ISBN 978-0-465-06570-7.
- Pedro Domingos, "Our Digital Doubles: AI will serve our species, not control it", Scientific American, vol. 319, no. 3 (September 2018), pp. 88–93. "AIs are like autistic savants and will remain so for the foreseeable future.... AIs lack common sense and can easily make errors that a human never would... They are also liable to take our instructions too literally, giving us precisely what we asked for instead of what we actually wanted." (p. 93.)
- Pedro Domingos, 2040: A Silicon Valley Satire, BookBaby, 2024, ISBN 979-8-350-96334-2.
Awards and honors
- 2014: ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award.[10] for his foundational research in data stream analysis, cost-sensitive classification, adversarial learning, and Markov logic networks, as well as applications in viral marketing and information integration.
- 2010: Elected an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow.[11] For significant contributions to the field of machine learning and to the unification of first-order logic and probability.
- 2003: Sloan Fellowship
- 1992–1997: Fulbright Scholarship