Padhraic Smyth is a Professor of Computer Science[2] in UC Irvine's Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences.

He also serves as Director of UC Irvine's Data Science Initiative[3] and Associate Director for UC Irvine's Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems.

[4] He was elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2010 "for significant contributions to the theory and practice of statistical machine learning".

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