Richard S. Sutton

Richard S. Sutton
Residence Canada
Fields Artificial Intelligence
Reinforcement Learning
Institutions University of Alberta
Alma mater University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Stanford University
Thesis Temporal credit assignment in reinforcement learning (1984)
Doctoral advisor Andrew Barto
Doctoral students Doina Precup
David Silver
Hamid Maei
Known for Temporal difference learning, Dyna, Options, GQ(λ)
Notable awards AAAI Fellow (2001)
President's Award (INNS) (2003)
Website
webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/

Richard S. Sutton is professor of computer science and iCORE chair at the University of Alberta. Professor Sutton is known for his significant contributions in the field of reinforcement learning. He is the author of the original paper on temporal difference learning. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and co-author of the textbook Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction from MIT Press.

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