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Biographical Information

After receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1993, Dr. Darwiche joined the computer science department at UCLA to assume a one-year post-doctorate position with professor Judea Pearl. Later that year, Dr. Darwiche joined Rockwell Science Center in California where he assumed the roles of Principal Investigator and Program Manager in the areas of diagnostics and planning.
Dr. Darwiche was then promoted to manage the newley created department of Diagnostics and Modeling in the Information Technology Division. The main accomplishment of this department has been the development of the DTOOL/CNETS diagnostic system which is currently used by Rockwell in the areas of avionics, automation and space operations.

From 1996 to 1998, Dr. Darwiche was at the American University of Beirut where he led the development of a graduate program in computer science, expected to commence in Fall of 1999. At present, Dr. Darwiche is a visiting professor at UCLA, and a senior scientist at Rockwell Science Center.

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Research Interests

Knowledge Representation and reasoning under uncertainty with an emphasis on Baysian networks, structure-driven inference algorithms and knowledge-base compilation techniques. Unifying foundations for logical and probabilistic reasoning. Belief revision and causality. Applications to model-based diagnosis and reasoning about physical systems.
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Taught Classes

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Contact Information

At Rockwell :                                           At UCLA :

           Information Technology                                 Cognitive Systems Laboratory
           Rockwell Science Center                               Department of Computer Science
           1049 Camino Dos Rios                                 University of California at Los Angeles
           Thousand Oaks, CA 91362                           Los Angeles, CA 90024
           darwiche@risc.rockwell.com                         darwiche@cs.ucla.edu
 

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Last revised: October 30, 1998.