Stuart J. Russell
Stuart Jonathan Russell OBE (born 1962) is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI).[5][3] He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.[6][7] He holds the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.[8] He founded and leads the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at UC Berkeley.[9] Russell is the co-author with Peter Norvig of the authoritative textbook of the field of AI: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries.[10]
Stuart Russell
British; American
University of Oxford (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
- IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1995)
- IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (2022)
- AAAI Fellow (1997)[1]
- ACM Fellow (2003)
- AAAS Fellow (2011)
- Blaise Pascal Chair (2012)
- Reith Lectures (2021)[2]
Education and early life[edit]
Russell was born in Portsmouth, England. He attended St Paul's School, London, where he was 1st scholar. He studied physics at Wadham College, Oxford, and was awarded his Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in 1982. He moved to the United States to complete his PhD in computer science at Stanford University in 1986 for research on inductive reasoning and analogical reasoning supervised by Michael Genesereth.[4][11] His PhD was supported by a NATO studentship from the UK Science and Engineering Research Council.[11]