Prof. Rina Dechter, Ph.D
Artificial Intelligence
Office: DBH 4232
Phone: 1.949.824.6556
Email: dechter_at_ics.uci.edu

Highlights and News

RESEARCH EXCELLENCE (2025)		I received IJCAI 2025 Research Excellence Award.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES (2025)		I am honored to have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recognizing my contributions to automated reasoning.
LEADERS IN CAUSAL REASONING (2025)		With Rina Dechter as the chair, UCI hosts a Southern California workshop bringing together leaders in Causal Reasoning. (Abstracts and talks can be found on the website).
LARGE NSF GRANT (2023)		Rina Dechter, with Others, Receives a $5M NSF Grant to Improve AI-Based Causal Decision Making.
AAAS FELLOW (2022)		7 UCI Researchers Are Elected AAAS Fellows
FACULTY SPOTLIGHT		Rina Dechter is Pushing the Frontiers of Research
AIJ 2020 CLASSIC PAPER AWARD		Dechter, Meiri and Pearl received the 2020 AIJ Classic Paper Award for their 1991 paper Temporal Constraint Networks. (Previous recipients of the award can be found here)
DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR		A Trio of New Distinguished Professors in ICS
BOOK (2019)		Second edition of my book: "Reasoning with Probabilistic and Deerministic Graphical Models" just appeared
NEWS		Charles River Analytics uses FIGRAO to develop probabilistic reasoning tools for US Air Force satellites
PACE CHALLENGE (2016)		Our CVO algorithm won first place in the parallel heuristic treewidth category of the 1st Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments (PACE) Challenge. (link / paper / slides)
BOOK (2013)		Reasoning with Probabilistic and Deterministic Graphical Models: Exact Algorithms
AWARD		2013 ACM Fellow (link 1 / link 2)
PASCAL CHALLENGE (2012)		Solvers by current and former students won first places in all nine categories of the 2011 PASCAL Probabilistic Inference Challenge. (link 1 / link 2)
UAI COMPETITION (2010)		Our solvers IJGP and FormulaSampleSearch won first places in two categories each, Daoopt won third place in three categories. (link 1 / link 2)
MINI-SCHOOL		UCI Lifted Algorithms Mini-School (November 3-6)
BOOK (2010)		'Heuristic, probability and Causality: a tribute to Judea Pearl' (link)
IJCAI 2013 TUTORIAL		Constraint Processing and Probabilistic Reasoning
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