Andrew Barto

Andrew Barto
Born
Andrew Gehret Barto

1948 (age 77–78)
EducationUniversity of Michigan (BS, MS, PhD)
AwardsIEEE Neural Networks Society Pioneer Award, IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, Turing Award (2024)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
ThesisCellular automata as models of natural systems (1975)
Doctoral advisorBernard P. Zeigler
Doctoral students

Andrew Gehret Barto (born 1948) is an American computer scientist who is professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Barto is best known for his foundational contributions to the field of modern computational reinforcement learning.