Peter
Stone
Profile
Peter is the Executive Director of Sony AI America. He is also the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group (LARG) within the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as associate department chair and Director of Texas Robotics. In 2013 he was awarded the University of Texas System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award and in 2014 he was inducted into the UT Austin Academy of Distinguished Teachers, earning him the title of University Distinguished Teaching Professor. Professor Stone's research interests in Artificial Intelligence include machine learning (especially reinforcement learning), multiagent systems, and robotics.
Professor Stone received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1998 from Carnegie Mellon University. From 1999 to 2002 he was a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department at AT&T Labs - Research. He is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, and 2004 ONR Young Investigator. In 2007 he received the prestigious IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, given biannually to the top AI researcher under the age of 35, and in 2016 he was awarded the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award.
Publications
In this work, we present methods for using human-robot dialog to improve language understanding for a mobile robot agent. The agent parses natural language to underlying semantic meanings and uses robotic sensors to create multi-modal models of perceptual concepts like red a…
The year 2020 saw the covid-19 virus lead to one of the worst global pandemics in history. As a result, governments around the world have been faced with the challenge of protecting public health while keeping the economy running to the greatest extent possible. Epidemiologi…
Blog
June 17, 2021 | Sony AI
RoboCup and Its Role in the History and Future of AI
As I write this blog post, we're a few days away from the opening of the 2021 RoboCup Competitions and Symposium. Running from June 22nd-28th, this event brings together AI and robotics researchers and learners from around the wo…
As I write this blog post, we're a few days away from the opening of the 2021 RoboCup Competitions and Symposium. Running from Jun…
March 3, 2021 | Sony AI
The Challenge to Create a Pandemic Simulator
The thing I like most about working at Sony AI is the quality of the projects we're working on, both for their scientific challenges and for their potential for improving the world. What could be more exciting than magnifying hu…
The thing I like most about working at Sony AI is the quality of the projects we're working on, both for their scientific challen…
News
February 4, 2021 | Press Release
Sony AI’s Dr. Peter Stone Named Fellow by the Association for Computing Machiner…
Tokyo, Japan – February 9, 2021 -- Dr. Peter Stone, Executive Director, Sony AI America Inc., has been named a Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the premier …
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