Stuart Russell elected Fellow of the Royal Society

Professor Stuart Russell OBE FRS, works in the field of artificial intelligence. He studied Physics at Wadham and Computer Science at Stanford before joining the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986. He is also a Professor of Computational Precision Health at the University of California, San Francisco and an Honorary Fellow of Wadham.

Professor Russell's research contributions include algorithmic and theoretical foundations for bounded rationality, real-time decision making, inverse reinforcement learning, hierarchical planning and reinforcement learning, and the unification of probability and logic. He has developed a new monitoring system for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. Professor Russell is the co-author with Peter Norvig of the standard text in AI, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.
He received the OBE in 2021 and delivered the BBC Reith Lectures and is a valued member of the Wadham community.

Our Warden, Robert Hannigan, comments: “This is a richly deserved award recognising Stuart Russell’s pioneering work. Everyone at Wadham is delighted and proud of our Honorary Fellow.”

Congratulations to Professor Russell and all the exceptional scientists who are newly-elected Fellows of the Royal Society.