Bio: Adnan Darwiche is a professor and former chairman of the computer science department at UCLA. He directs the Automated Reasoning Group, which focuses symbolic reasoning, probabilistic reasoning and machine learning. Professor Darwiche is Fellow of AAAI and ACM. He is a former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and author of "Modeling and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks," by Cambridge University Press.