Pedro Domingos
Machine learning researcher and author
Pedro Domingos is a machine learning researcher and professor emeritus at the University of Washington. He wrote The Master Algorithm.
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Portuguese Born 1965 in Lisbon, Portugal
About Pedro Domingos
Pedro Domingos was born in 1965 in Lisbon, Portugal. He studied in Lisbon, then earned his doctorate in information and computer science at the University of California, Irvine, in 1997. He went on to teach computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, where he is now professor emeritus. His research is in machine learning, and he is known for work on Markov logic networks, which support reasoning under uncertainty. He has received the SIGKDD Innovation Award and the IJCAI John McCarthy Award. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. The Master Algorithm introduces machine learning to a general audience. He has also written 2040, and his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American and Wired.