Stuart J. Russell
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Research Areas
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)
- Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)
- machine learning; real-time decision-making; algorithms; probabilistic reasoning; computational biology
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Biography
Russell is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, the World Technology Award (Policy category), the Mitchell Prize of the American Statistical Association and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, the ACM Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and the AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award. In 1998, he gave the Forsythe Memorial Lectures at Stanford University and from 2012 to 2014 he held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence including machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, real-time decision making, multitarget tracking, computer vision, computational physiology, global seismic monitoring, and philosophical foundations. His books include "The Use of Knowledge in Analogy and Induction", "Do the Right Thing: Studies in Limited Rationality" (with Eric Wefald), and "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig). His current concerns include the threat of autonomous weapons and the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity.
Education
- 1986, PhD, Computer Science, Stanford University
- 1982, BA Hons (1st class), Physics, Oxford University
Selected Publications
- B. Milch, B. Marthi, S. J. Russell, D. Sontag, D. L. Ong, and A. Kolobov, "BLOG: Probabilistic models with unknown objects," in Proc. 19th Intl. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2005), L. Pack Kaelbling and A. Saffiotti, Eds., Rochester Hills, MI: IJCAI, Inc., 2005, pp. 1352-1359.
- D. Andre and S. J. Russell, "Programmable reinforcement learning agents," in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13: Proc. 14th Annual Conf. (NIPS 2000), T. K. Leen, T. G. Dietterich, and V. Tresp, Eds., Bradford Books, Vol. 13, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 1019-1025.
- T. Huang and S. J. Russell, "Object identification: A Bayesian analysis with application to traffic surveillance," Artificial Intelligence: Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence 40 Years Later, vol. 103, no. 1-2, pp. 77-93, Aug. 1998.
- S. J. Russell, "Rationality and intelligence," Artificial Intelligence: Special Issue on Economic Principles of Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 94, no. 1-2, pp. 57-77, July 1997.
- S. J. Russell and E. Wefald, "Principles of metareasoning," Artificial Intelligence, vol. 49, no. 1-3, pp. 361-395, May 1991.
Awards, Memberships and Fellowships
- ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award, 2023
- IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, 2022
- Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2021
- Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, 2019
- AAAI Feigenbaum Prize (formerly the Feigenbaum Medal), 2019
- Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, 2018
- AAAI - EAAI Outstanding Educator Award, 2016
- World Technology Policy Award, 2015
- Mitchell Prize, 2014
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 2011
- Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, 2005
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, 2003
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow, 1997
- Computers and Thought Award, 1994
- NSF Presidential Young Investigator (PYI), 1990