Pierre Baldi

Pierre Baldi
Born	Rome, Italy
Residence	USA
Fields	computer scientist, teacher
Institutions	Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology
Known for	Ggenomics, bioinformatics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, communication network
Notable awards	Fellow AAAI and AAAS

Pierre Baldi is a chancellor's professor of computer science at University of California Irvine and the director of its Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics.

Born in Rome (Italy), Pierre Baldi received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees at the University of Paris, in France. He then obtained his Ph.D. degree in mathematics at the California Institute of Technology in 1986. From 1986 to 1988, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego. From 1988 to 1995, he held faculty and member of the technical staff positions at the California Institute of Technology and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was given the Lew Allen Award for Research Excellence in 1993. He was CEO of a start up company called Net-ID from 1995 to 1999 and joined University of California, Irvine in 1999.

Pierre Baldi's research include artificial intelligence, statistical machine learning, and data mining, and their applications to problems in the life sciences in genomics, proteomics, systems biology, computational neuroscience, and, recently, deep learning.