# Pierre Baldi

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American computer science professor

For the painter, see [Pierre Baldi (painter)](/source/Pierre_Baldi_(painter)).

Pierre Baldi Pierre Baldi in 2016 Born Rome, Italy Alma mater University of Paris (BSc) California Institute of Technology (PhD) Awards ISCB Fellow (2013) ACM Fellow (2012) IEEE Fellow (2011) FAAAS (2008) AAAI Fellow (2007) Scientific career Fields Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Bioinformatics Systems Biology Mathematics[1] Institutions Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California Irvine University of California, San Diego Thesis I: On a Family of Generalized Colorings. II: Some Contributions to the Theory of Neural Networks. III: Embeddings of Ultrametric Spaces Doctoral advisor R. M. Wilson[2] Website www.igb.uci.edu/~pfbaldi

**Pierre Baldi** is a [distinguished professor](/source/Distinguished_professor) of [computer science](/source/Computer_science) at [University of California Irvine](/source/University_of_California_Irvine)[3] and the director of its Institute for [Genomics](/source/Genomics) and [Bioinformatics](/source/Bioinformatics).[4]

## Education and early life

Born in [Rome](/source/Rome) ([Italy](/source/Italy)), Pierre Baldi received his [Bachelor of Science](/source/Bachelor_of_Science) and [Master of Science](/source/Master_of_Science) degrees at the [University of Paris](/source/University_of_Paris), in [France](/source/France).[5] He then obtained his [Ph.D.](/source/Ph.D.) degree in [mathematics](/source/Mathematics) at the [California Institute of Technology](/source/California_Institute_of_Technology) in 1986 supervised by [R. M. Wilson](/source/R._M._Wilson).[2]

## Career and research

From 1986 to 1988, he was a [postdoctoral fellow](/source/Postdoctoral_fellow) at the [University of California, San Diego](/source/University_of_California%2C_San_Diego). From 1988 to 1995, he held faculty and member of the technical staff positions at the [California Institute of Technology](/source/California_Institute_of_Technology) and at the [Jet Propulsion Laboratory](/source/Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory), where he was awarded the [Lew Allen Award for Excellence](/source/Lew_Allen_Award_for_Excellence) in 1993.[6] He was [CEO](/source/CEO) of a start up company called Net-ID from 1995 to 1999 and joined University of California, Irvine in 1999.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

Baldi's research is focused on understanding intelligence in brains and machines, through the study of the mathematical foundations of [artificial intelligence](/source/Artificial_intelligence), [machine learning](/source/Machine_learning), and [deep learning](/source/Deep_learning), and their applications to problems in the [natural sciences](/source/Natural_science), [physics](/source/Physics), [chemistry](/source/Chemistry), and [biology](/source/Biology).

### Publications

Baldi has over 400 publications in his field of research and five books:[1][7][8]

- "*Deep Learning in Science*." Pierre Baldi. Cambridge University Press. 2021. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1108845359](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1108845359)

- "*[Bioinformatics](/source/Bioinformatics): the [Machine Learning](/source/Machine_Learning) Approach."* Pierre Baldi and Soren Brunak. [MIT Press](/source/MIT_Press), 1998; 2nd Edition, 2001, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0262025065](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0262025065).

- "*Modeling the Internet and the Web. Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms,*" Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi and Padhraic Smyth. Wiley editors, 2003. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0470849064](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0470849064)

- "*The Shattered Self—The End of Natural Evolution.*" Pierre Baldi. MIT Press, 2001. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0262025027](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0262025027)

- "*DNA Microarrays and Gene Regulation.*" Pierre Baldi and G. Wesley Hatfield. Cambridge University Press, 2002. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0521176354](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0521176354)

### Awards and honors

Baldi is a [fellow](/source/Fellow) of the [Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence](/source/Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Artificial_Intelligence) (AAAI),[9] the [AAAS](/source/American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science),[10] the [IEEE](/source/IEEE),[11] and the [Association for Computing Machinery](/source/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](/source/Artificial_neural_network) and a fellow of the [International Society for Computational Biology](/source/International_Society_for_Computational_Biology) (ISCB).

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-googlescholar_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-googlescholar_1-1) [Pierre Baldi](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RhFhIIgAAAAJ) publications indexed by [Google Scholar](/source/Google_Scholar)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-mathgene_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-mathgene_2-1) [Pierre Baldi](https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=11939) at the [Mathematics Genealogy Project](/source/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [List of UCI Distinguished Professors](https://ap.uci.edu/titles-of-distinction/distinguished-professor/), retrieved 2020-03-23.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [List of IGB faculty](http://www.igb.uci.edu/?page=people&subPage=faculty) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070819095621/http://www.igb.uci.edu/?page=people&subPage=faculty) 2007-08-19 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), retrieved 2009-04-03.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Footnote of the scientific paper "How delays affect neural dynamics and learning", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, July 1994 (.pdf)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231155/http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~amir/delay.pdf) (PDF). Archived from [the original](http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~amir/delay.pdf) (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2013-06-14.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Lew Allen Award description](https://web.archive.org/web/20041028142320/http://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/exhibits/directors/allengal4.htm).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Pierre Baldi](https://dblp.org/pid/54/1564) at [DBLP](/source/DBLP_(identifier)) Bibliography Server

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [http://www.igb.uci.edu/~pfbaldi/?page=publications](http://www.igb.uci.edu/~pfbaldi/?page=publications) - UCI publications

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [AAAI Announces Newly-Elected Fellows](http://www.aaai.org/Pressroom/Releases/release-07-0724.php), July 24, 2007.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** [New fellows](http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/new_fellows.shtml) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20080112153455/http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/new_fellows.shtml) 2008-01-12 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), AAAS, retrieved 2009-04-03.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** [2012 Newly Elevated Fellows](https://web.archive.org/web/20120215201114/http://www.ieee.org/documents/fellows_class_2012.pdf), IEEE, accessed 2011-12-10.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** [Pierre Baldi ACM Fellows 2012](http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/baldi_3816096.cfm)

v t e Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology by Class of 2022 2009 David Haussler David Lipman Webb Miller David Sankoff Temple Smith Janet Thornton Michael Waterman 2010 Russ Altman Lawrence Hunter Eugene Myers Chris Sander Gary Stormo Alfonso Valencia 2011 Michael Ashburner Phil Bourne Søren Brunak Richard Durbin 2012 Bonnie Berger Peter Karp Jill Mesirov Pavel Pevzner Ron Shamir Martin Vingron Gunnar von Heijne 2013 Pierre Baldi David Eisenberg Minoru Kanehisa Satoru Miyano Ruth Nussinov Steven Salzberg 2014 Amos Bairoch Ewan Birney Nir Friedman Robert Gentleman Andrej Šali 2015 Rolf Apweiler Cyrus Chothia Julio Collado-Vides Mark Gerstein Des Higgins Thomas Lengauer Michael Levitt Burkhard Rost 2016 Helen M. Berman Steven Brenner Dan Gusfield Barry Honig Janet Kelso Michal Linial Christine Orengo Aviv Regev Lincoln Stein Sarah Teichmann Anna Tramontano Shoshana Wodak Haim Wolfson 2017 Alex Bateman Andrea Califano Daphne Koller Anders Krogh William Stafford Noble Lior Pachter Olga Troyanskaya Tandy Warnow 2018 Patricia Babbitt Terry Gaasterland Hanah Margalit Yves Moreau Bernard Moret William Pearson Mona Singh Mike Steel 2019 Vineet Bafna Eleazar Eskin Xiaole Shirley Liu Marie-France Sagot 2020 Serafim Batzoglou Judith Blake Mark Borodovsky Rita Casadio Paul Flicek Osamu Gotoh Rafael Irizarry Laxmi Parida Katherine Pollard Ben Raphael Zhiping Weng Xuegong Zhang 2021 Atul Butte A. Keith Dunker Eran Halperin Wolfgang Huber Sorin Istrail Christina S. Leslie Ming Li Núria López Bigas Dana Pe'er Teresa Przytycka Eytan Ruppin Gustavo Stolovitzky 2022 Barbara Bryant Sean Eddy Mikhail Gelfand Takashi Gojobori Trey Ideker David Jones Fran Lewitter Jun Liu Debora Marks Mihai Pop Reinhard Schneider 2023 Bissan Al-Lazikani Ana Conesa Lenore Cowen Arne Elofsson Oliver Kohlbacher Heng Li Luay Nakhleh Francis Ouellette Shoba Ranganathan Russell Schwartz Roded Sharan Fabian Theis Cathy Wu Jinbo Xu Jinghui Zhang 2024 Teresa Attwood Niko Beerenwinkel Peer Bork Barbara Engelhardt Tao Jiang Carl Kingsford Eugene Koonin Doron Lancet Philippe Lemey Scott Markel Peter Park Natasa Przulj Torsten Schwede Michael Sternberg Fengzhu Sun Mihaela Zavolan 2025 Yana Bromberg Charlotte Deane Toni Gabaldon Rachel Karchin David Landsman Su-In Lee Jian Ma Nicola Mulder Robert F. Murphy Itsik Pe'er Lucia Peixoto Predrag Radivojac Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos Remo Rohs Julio Saez-Rodriguez Cenk Sahinalp Donna Slonim Zemin Zhang Hongyu Zhao

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