Padhraic Smyth

Padhraic Smyth is a Professor at the University of California, Irvine, in the Department of Computer Science with a joint appointment in Statistics, and is also Director of the Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems at UC Irvine. His research interests include machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, and applied statistics and he has published over 150 papers on these topics. He was a recipient of best paper awards at the 2002 and 1997 ACM SIGKDD Conferences, received the ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award in 2009, and was named a AAAI Fellow in 2010. He is co-author of Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms (with Pierre Baldi and Paolo Frasconi in 2003), and co-author of Principles of Data Mining, MIT Press (with David Hand and Heikki Mannila in 2001). Padhraic has served in editorial and advisory positions for journals such as the Journal of Machine Learning Research, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and the IEEE T