Padhraic Smyth

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

{{BLP sources |date=December 2016}}

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|name=Padhraic Smyth

|image=Padhraic Smyth Headshot 2016.jpg

|alt=UC Irvine Professor Padhraic Smyth

|caption=UC Irvine Professor Padhraic Smyth{{cite web |url=https://www.ics.uci.edu/~smyth/ |title=Padhraic_homepage |website=www.ics.uci.edu |access-date=2020-12-22}}

|birth_name=

|birth_date={{birth year and age |1962}}

|birth_place=Kilmovee, County Mayo, Ireland

|workplaces={{ubl |Jet Propulsion Laboratory |Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences}}

|alma_mater=California Institute of Technology

|doctoral_advisor=Rodney M. Goodman

|thesis_title=The Application of Information Theory to Problems in Decision Tree Design and Rule-Based Expert Systems

|thesis_url=https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-02022007-103549

|thesis_year=1998

|known_for=

|awards={{ubl |AAAI Fellow (2010) |ACM Fellow (2013)}}

|website={{Official URL}}

}}

Padhraic Smyth is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science{{cite web |title=UCI Department of Computer Science |url=https://www.cs.uci.edu/faculty/}} serving as the inaugural Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence{{cite web |title=UCI Department of Computer Science |url=https://www.cs.uci.edu/faculty/}}in UC Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. He also serves as Director of UC Irvine's Data Science Initiative{{cite web |title=UCI Data Science Initiative |url=http://datascience.uci.edu/faculty-advisory-board/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008040300/http://datascience.uci.edu/faculty-advisory-board/ |archive-date=2017-10-08}} and Associate Director for UC Irvine's Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems.{{cite web |title=Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems |url=https://cml.ics.uci.edu/faculty/}} 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".{{cite web |title=Elected AAAI Fellows |url=https://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php |website=AAAI |accessdate=2020-12-22}}