Pierre Baldi

Pierre Baldi is a distinguished professor of computer science at University of California Irvine[3] and the director of its Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics.

[6] He was CEO of a start up company called Net-ID from 1995 to 1999 and joined University of California, Irvine in 1999.

[citation needed] Baldi's research is focused on understanding intelligence in brains and machines, through the study of the mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning, and their applications to problems in the natural sciences, physics, chemistry, and biology.

Baldi has over 400 publications in his field of research and five books:[1][7][8] Baldi is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI),[9] the AAAS,[10] the IEEE,[11] and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

[12] He is also the recipient of the 2010 Eduardo R. Caianiello Prize for Scientific Contributions to the field of Neural Networks and a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).