Peter Flach
Peter Flach researches the evaluation and improvement of machine-learning models. He also writes books that explain logical reasoning and learning from data. Flach wrote Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example. Simply Logical later appeared as an interactive online edition in 2022. Flach joined Bristol’s computer science department in 1997 and became professor of artificial intelligence in 2003. Flach authored Machine Learning: The Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data, published by Cambridge University Press. His research also covers model evaluation and structured-data learning.
- Now at
- University of Bristol
- Works
- 393
- Citations
- 16,433
- h-index
- 62
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1994
A book on logical reasoning
Flach wrote Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example. Simply Logical later appeared as an interactive online edition in 2022.
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1997–2003
Career at Bristol
Flach joined Bristol’s computer science department in 1997 and became professor of artificial intelligence in 2003.
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2010–2020
Research editing and training
He edited the Machine Learning journal from 2010 to 2020. He also led doctoral-training centers in interactive and practice-oriented AI.
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2012
Explaining machine learning
Flach authored Machine Learning: The Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data, published by Cambridge University Press. His research also covers model evaluation and structured-data learning.
Sources and credits
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