Brief Biography for Richard Sutton

Brief Biography

Richard Sutton is a recipient of the ACM Turing Award, the highest distinction in computing science. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Canada, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. At the University of Alberta and Keen Technologies, he teaches and designs learning algorithms for artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning. At the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, he is Chief Scientific Advisor and a Canada CIFAR AI chair. Earlier, he studied at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts, and worked at GTE Labs, AT&T Labs, and DeepMind. His scientific publications have been cited about 170,000 times and include the defining textbook on reinforcement learning. Sutton’s research emphasizes learning from the agent’s first-person experience without special support from a teacher or a prepared dataset. He is also a libertarian, a chess player, and a cancer survivor.