David Poole

David Poole is a leader in the field of Cognitive AI and is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Poole is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, and the director of the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence. He was the winner of the Canadian AI Association (CAIAC), 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award, is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and is a fellow of CAIAC. During the 2014-2015 academic year, he was a Leverhulme Trust visiting professor at the University of Oxford. He was the former chair of the Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence and a former associate editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal. Professor Poole has published extensively in the fields of artificial intelligence, logic programming, and reasoning with uncertainty. He has co-authored two books with Alan Mackworth: Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach (1998); and Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents (2010; 2nd Ed. 2017).