| Birth name | Pieter Adriaan Flach |
|---|---|
| Birth date | 8 April 1961 (age 65) |
| Birth place | Sneek, Netherlands |
| Workplaces | University of Bristol |
| Website | www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~flach |
Pieter "Peter" Adriaan Flach (born 8 April 1961, Sneek) is a Dutch computer scientist and a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol.[1] He is author of the acclaimed Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (John Wiley, 1994) and Machine Learning: the Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data (Cambridge University Press, 2012).[2]
Education
Flach received an MSc Electrical Engineering from Universiteit Twente in 1987 and a PhD in Computer Science from Tilburg University in 1995.[citation needed]
Research
Flach's research interests are in data mining and machine learning.