Stuart J. Russell

Stuart Jonathan Russell, born in 1962, is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence. He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and from 2008 to 2011 was also an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. Born in Portsmouth, England, he studied physics at Wadham College, Oxford, and took a PhD in computer science at Stanford University in 1986. His research covers machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, real-time decision making, multitarget tracking, computer vision and inverse reinforcement learning. With Peter Norvig he wrote the textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, and in 2016 he founded the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence at Berkeley.