Stuart Russell

Stuart Russell joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in 1986, where he is currently professor and chairman of computer science, director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, and holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering. In 1990, he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation; in 1995 he was cowinner of the Computers and Thought Award; in 1998, he gave the Forsythe Memorial Lectures at Stanford University; and in 2005 he won the ACM Karlstrom Oustanding Educator Award. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. He has published around 150 papers on a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence. His books include "The Use of Knowledge in Analogy and Induction" (Pitman, 1989) and "Do the Right Thing: Studies in Limited Rationality" (with Eric Wefald, MIT Press, 1991), as well as the standard textbook in the field, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig, Prentice Hall, 1995, 2003).

Work Experience

• Chair, UC Berkeley CS Division, 2006-present
• Professor, UC Berkeley CS Division, 1996-present
• Associate Professor, UC Berkeley CS Division, 1991-1996
• Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley CS Division, 1986-1991

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University, 1986
• BA, 1st Class, Physics, Wadham College, University of Oxford, 1982

Awards, Honors and Significant Achievements

• Author of the leading AI textbook
• Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, UC Berkeley
• Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, 1990
• Cowinner of the Computers and Thought award, 1995
• ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Oustanding Educator Award, 2005
• Miller Professor, 1996, and Chancellor's Professor, 2000, University of California
• Fellow and former Excecutive Council member, American Association for Artificial Intellligence
• Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
• Secretary, International Machine Learning Society

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