Pedro Domingos

Pedro Domingos (born 1965) is a Professor Emeritus of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington, known for his pioneering work in machine learning and the development of Markov logic networks. He graduated in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Technical Superior Institute of Lisbon in 1988 and earned his Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 1997. Domingos authored the influential book "The Master Algorithm" (2015), which was recommended by Bill Gates as an essential reading on AI and machine learning.

Domingos has published over 200 technical papers and has received numerous prestigious awards, including the SIGKDD Innovation Award, AAAI Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, Fulbright Scholarship, and IBM Faculty Award. He co-founded the International Machine Learning Society and has served on the editorial board of the Machine Learning Journal. He has also been involved in various program committees for leading AI and machine learning conferences.

His research covers a wide range of topics, including scaling learning algorithms to big data, statistical relational learning, and deep learning. Domingos has been a member of the Portuguese Diaspora Council since 2016, contributing significantly to the global AI and machine learning community.