Andrew Barto
Andrew Barto | |
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| Born | Andrew Gehret Barto 1948 (age 77–78) |
| Education | University of Michigan (BS, MS, PhD) |
| Awards | IEEE Neural Networks Society Pioneer Award, IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, Turing Award (2024) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Thesis | Cellular automata as models of natural systems (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernard 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.