Benjamin Van Roy
About
Benjamin Van Roy is a Professor at Stanford University, where he has been on the faculty since 1998, and a leading expert in reinforcement learning, with research focused on the design and analysis of intelligent agents. He also founded and leads the Efficient Agent Team at Google DeepMind and has directed research initiatives at Morgan Stanley, Unica (acquired by IBM), and Enuvis (acquired by SiRF), which he co-founded. Van Roy holds SB, SM, and PhD degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with his doctoral work advised by John N. Tsitsiklis. A Fellow of both INFORMS and IEEE, he has served on the editorial boards of several top journals in machine learning and operations research. His contributions have been recognized with numerous awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, the INFORMS Frederick W. Lanchester Prize, and multiple teaching honors from Stanford. He has advised dozens of PhD students who have gone on to influential roles in academia, industry, and finance. Read more