Andrew Barto

Andrew G. Barto is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He joined the department in 1977 and served as its chair from 2007 to 2011. His main research area is reinforcement learning. Barto received his B.S. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1970 and five years later got his Ph.D. in computer science. In 1977, Barto joined the College of Information and Computer Sciences of the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a postdoctoral research associate and was promoted to associate professor in 1982, and full professor in 1991. He was a department chair from 2007 to 2011 and is a co-director of the Autonomous Learning Laboratory and faculty member of the Neuroscience and Behavior Program of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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