Pedro Domingos


Pedro Domingos is a Professor Emeritus of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. He is a researcher in machine learning known for Markov logic network enabling uncertain inference.

Education

Domingos received an undergraduate degree and Master of Science degree from Instituto Superior Técnico. He moved to the University of California, Irvine, where he received a Master of Science degree followed by his PhD.

Research and career

After spending two years as an assistant professor at IST, he joined the University of Washington as an assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering in 1999 and became a full professor in 2012. He started a machine learning research group at the hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co. in 2018, but left in 2019.
He co-founded the International Machine Learning Society. As of 2018, he was on the editorial board of Machine Learning journal.

Publications

  • Pedro Domingos, The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, New York, Basic Books, 2015,.
  • Pedro Domingos, "Our Digital Doubles: AI will serve our species, not control it", Scientific American, vol. 319, no. 3, pp. 88–93. "AIs are like autistic savants and will remain so for the foreseeable future.... AIs lack common sense and can easily make errors that a human never would... They are also liable to take our instructions too literally, giving us precisely what we asked for instead of what we actually wanted."
  • Pedro Domingos, 2040: A Silicon Valley Satire, BookBaby, 2024,.

Awards and honors