Rina Dechter
Rina Dechter | |
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רינה דכטר | |
| Born | August 13, 1950 |
| Nationality | American, Israeli |
| Alma mater | UCLA (1985, PhD) Weizmann Institute of Science (1976, MS) Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1973, BS) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence |
| Institutions | Hughes Aircraft Company Technion University of California, Irvine |
| Thesis | Studies in the Use and Generation of Heuristics (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Judea Pearl |
| Website | www |
Rina Dechter (Hebrew: רינה דכטר; born August 13, 1950) is a distinguished professor of computer science 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. In 2013, she was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.