Brief Biography
Richard Sutton designs new learning algorithms for artificial
intelligence and reinforcement learning at Keen Technologies and the
University of Alberta. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of
London, the Royal Society of Canada, and the Association for the
Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. At the Alberta Machine
Intelligence Institute (Amii), 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 research emphasizes learning from
experience---the interaction between an AI agent and its
environment. His scientific publications have been cited about
150,000 times. He is also a libertarian, a chess player, and a
cancer survivor.