Rina Dechter

Rina Dechter
רינה דכטר
Born (1950-08-13) August 13, 1950
NationalityAmerican, Israeli
Alma materUCLA (1985, PhD)
Weizmann Institute of Science (1976, MS)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1973, BS)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science, Artificial Intelligence
InstitutionsHughes Aircraft Company
Technion
University of California, Irvine
ThesisStudies in the Use and Generation of Heuristics (1985)
Doctoral advisorJudea Pearl
Websitewww.ics.uci.edu/~dechter

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.