Padhraic Smyth
Padhraic Smyth coauthored Bayesian Modeling of Human-AI Complementarity with Mark Steyvers, Heliodoro Tejeda and Gavin Kerrigan. His work places probabilistic modeling at the center of research on joint human and machine decisions. His 2025 work includes research on what language models know and what people think they know, and Bayesian inference for correlated human experts and classifiers. Both are team publications. Smyth is a distinguished professor and holds an endowed AI chair at UC Irvine. He is also founding director of its machine learning center and faculty director of the UCI Machine Learning Repository.
- Works
- 450
- Citations
- 33,951
- h-index
- 76
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2022
Human and AI decisions
Padhraic Smyth coauthored Bayesian Modeling of Human-AI Complementarity with Mark Steyvers, Heliodoro Tejeda and Gavin Kerrigan. Probabilistic modeling is central to research on joint human and machine decisions.
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2025
Knowledge and uncertainty
His 2025 work includes research on what language models know and what people think they know, and Bayesian inference for correlated human experts and classifiers. Both are team publications.
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As of October 2026
UCI research infrastructure
Smyth is a distinguished professor and holds an endowed AI chair at UC Irvine. He is also founding director of its machine learning center and faculty director of the UCI Machine Learning Repository.
Sources and credits
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