Rina Dechter
{{short description|Computer scientist}}
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| name = Rina Dechter
| native_name = רינה דכטר
| native_name_lang = he
| image = Rina Dechter.jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth_date_and_age|1950|08|13}}
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| nationality = American, Israeli
| field = Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
| work_institution = Hughes Aircraft Company
Technion
University of California, Irvine
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| thesis_title = Studies in the Use and Generation of Heuristics
| thesis_url = https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/912275
| thesis_year = 1985
| alma_mater = UCLA (1985, PhD)
Weizmann Institute of Science (1976, MS)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1973, BS)
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| doctoral_advisor = Judea Pearl
| website = {{URL|www.ics.uci.edu/~dechter}}
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Rina Dechter ({{Langx|he|רינה דכטר}}; born August 13, 1950) is a distinguished professor of computer science{{cite web|url=https://ap.uci.edu/titles-of-distinction/distinguished-professor/|title=Distinguished professors|publisher=University of California, Irvine|access-date=2019-08-18}} in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Her research is on automated reasoning in artificial intelligence focusing on probabilistic and constraint-based reasoning.{{cite web|title=Rina Dechter Biographical Sketch|url=http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dechter/biographical.html|access-date=18 June 2015}}{{cite web|title=Faculty Profile: Rina Dechter|url=http://www.ics.uci.edu/faculty/profiles/view_faculty.php?ucinetid=dechter|website=UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences|access-date=18 June 2015}} In 2013, she was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.{{cite web|title=ACM Fellows|url=http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/dechter_2165652.cfm|website=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=18 June 2015}}
Education
Dechter received her B.S. in mathematics and statistics from Hebrew University in 1973, her M.S. in applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute in 1976, and her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1985 as a student of Judea Pearl.{{cite web|title=Rina Dechter Curriculum Vitae|url=http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dechter/new_site/cv.pdf|access-date=18 June 2015}}{{cite web|title=Computer Science Professor Judea Pearl honored|url=http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/newsroom/more-news/archive/2010/pearl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505182228/http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/newsroom/more-news/archive/2010/pearl|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 May 2010|website=UCLA Engineering|access-date=18 June 2015}}
Academic career and research
Dechter was a staff member at Hughes Aircraft Company from 1985 to 1988. She became a senior lecturer in computer science at the Technion from 1988 to 1990, after which she moved to the University of California, Irvine, where she became a full professor in 1996. She was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2005 to 2006.{{cite web|title=Fellow: Rina Dechter|url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/rina-dechter|website=Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study|access-date=18 June 2015}} From 2011 to 2018 she was the co-editor in chief of the scientific journal Artificial Intelligence,.{{cite web|title=About the AIJ Division (AIJD)|url=http://aij.ijcai.org/about-the-aij-division-aijd|website=AIJ Editorial Website|access-date=18 June 2015}}
Dechter wrote a standard text in constraint programming called Constraint Processing published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers in 2003.{{Cite book|edition = 1st|title = Constraint Processing|url = https://archive.org/details/constraintproces00rina|publisher = Morgan Kaufmann|date = May 19, 2003|location = San Francisco|isbn = 9781558608900|first = Rina|last = Dechter|url-access = registration}} It was reviewed as a valuable graduate-level resource or reference work.{{cite journal|last1=van Beek|first1=Peter|last2=Walsh|first2=Toby|title=Principles of Constraint Programming and Constraint Processing: A Review|journal=AI Magazine|date=Winter 2004|volume=25|issue=4|url=http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/download/1790/1688/}} She also co-edited a festschrift dedicated to her Ph.D. advisor Judea Pearl and his influence in the field of causal modeling and probabilistic reasoning, titled Heuristics, Probability, and Causality.{{Cite book|edition = 1st|title = Heuristics, Probability and Causality. a Tribute to Judea Pearl|publisher = College Publications|date = February 5, 2010|location = London|isbn = 9781904987659|editor-first = Rina|editor-last = Dechter|editor-first2 = Hector|editor-last2 = Geffner|editor-first3 = Joseph Y.|editor-last3 = Halpern}}
Dechter was the first to use the phrase deep learning, in a 1986 paper.{{cite web|url=https://datafloq.com/read/resurgence-of-artificial-intelligence-1983-2010/4795|magazine=Datafloq|title=The Resurgence of Artificial Intelligence During 1983–2010|first=Alok|last=Aggarwal|date=March 22, 2018}}
Awards and honors
Dechter received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the United States National Science Foundation in 1991, became a fellow of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence in 1994, and received an award for research excellence from the Association of Constraint Programming in 2007. In 2013, she was elected a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, cited "for contributions to the algorithmic foundations of automated reasoning with constraint-based and probabilistic information."
References
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External links
- [https://www.ics.uci.edu/~dechter/ Home page]
- {{Google Scholar id|PI_3bqEAAAAJ}}
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Category:American women computer scientists
Category:American computer scientists
Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Category:University of California, Irvine faculty
Category:2013 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Category:Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Category:Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
Category:21st-century American women
Category:Israeli computer scientists
Category:Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology