Dr. Rina Dechter
Prof. Rina Dechter, Ph.D
Artificial Intelligence
Office: DBH 4232
Phone: 1.949.824.6556
Email: dechter_at_ics.uci.edu
Highlights and News
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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Awards
  • Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2025)
  • 2022 Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science
  • AIJ 2020 Classic Paper Award (previous recipients)
  • Radcliffe Fellowship
  • ACP 2007 Award
  • AAAI Fellow
School of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3435 Dr. Rina Dechter dechter at ics.uci.edu