I am honored to have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recognizing my contributions to automated reasoning.

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).

Rina Dechter, with Others, Receives a $5M NSF Grant to Improve AI-Based Causal Decision Making.

7 UCI Researchers Are Elected AAAS Fellows

Rina Dechter is Pushing the Frontiers of Research

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)

A Trio of New Distinguished Professors in ICS

Second edition of my book: "Reasoning with Probabilistic and Deerministic Graphical Models" just appeared

Charles River Analytics uses FIGRAO to develop probabilistic reasoning tools for US Air Force satellites

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)

Reasoning with Probabilistic and Deterministic Graphical Models: Exact Algorithms

2013 ACM Fellow (link 1 / link 2)

Solvers by current and former students won first places in all nine categories of the 2011 PASCAL Probabilistic Inference Challenge. (link 1 / link 2)

Our solvers IJGP and FormulaSampleSearch won first places in two categories each, Daoopt won third place in three categories. (link 1 / link 2)

'Heuristic, probability and Causality: a tribute to Judea Pearl' (link)

Constraint Processing and Probabilistic Reasoning