Judea Pearl
CHANCELLOR’S PROFESSOR EMERITUS
COMPUTER SCIENCE
4514 Boelter Hall
Email: judea@cs.ucla.eduPhone: (310) 825-3243
Fax: (310) 825-7578
Websites
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
- Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation
- Probabilistic and causal reasoning
- Philosophy of science
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS AND BOOKS
- Pearl, Judea. Heuristics: Intelligent Search Strategies for Computer Problem Solving. Addison-Wesley, 1984.
- Pearl, Judea. Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference. Morgan-Kaufmann, 1988.
- Pearl, Judea. Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. Cambridge University Press, 2000; 2nd edition, 2009.
- Pearl, Judea, Madelyn Glymour and Nicholas P. Jewell. Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer. Wiley, 2016.
- Pearl, Judea and Dana Mackenzie. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect. Basic Books, 2018; 2nd edition, 2025.
- Pearl, Judea. Coexistence and Other Fighting Words: Selected Writings of Judea Pearl, 2002–2025. Political Animal Press, 2025.
IN THE NEWS
- Q&A: Judea Pearl | Wall Street Journal, Januray 2026
- Causal Inference Makes Sense of AI | Communications of the ACM, December 2024
- The AI Revolution: It’s Here. It’s Going to change Life as We Know it. Are You Ready? Are You Sure? I UCLA Magazine, October 2024
- Judea Pearl honored for his contributions to artificial intelligence research | UCLA Newsroom, February 2022
- Dances with Judea Pearl | Jewish Journal, 10/2021
- Judea Pearl: Reflections on Loss, Artificial Intelligence, and “Zionophobia” | Jewish Journal, 10/2021
- Neuroscience Weighs in on Physics’ Biggest Questions | Nautilus, 10/2021
- UCLA Among Major Universities to Receive Toyota Research Grant | UCLA Samueli, 1/2021
- Judea Pearl and UCLA join Toyota Research Institute’s AI program | UCLA Newsroom, 1/2021
- Judea Pearl Among Recipients of Carnegie Corporation’s 2020 Great Immigrants Awards | The Algemeiner, 7/2020
EDUCATION
PhD (1965) Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
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- BBVA Frontier of Science Award
- ACM A.M. Turing Award
- Member: NAS, NAE, Fellow: AAAS,IEEE, ACM, AAAI
- Technion Harvey Prize
- Rumelhart Prize, Benjamin Franklin Medal
- Allen Newell Award
- LSE Lakatos Prize
- Dickson Prize
- AI Research Excellence Award
- American Mathematical Society Prize
- Royal Statistical Society Honorary Fellow
- Carnegie Corporation of New York Great Immigrant Honoree