Congratulations to MS&E's Ben Van Roy, who was named an INFORMS Fellow at the recent INFORMS National Meeting for his contributions to decision making in stochastic systems and approximate dynamic programming. The INFORMS Fellow designation recognizes outstanding lifetime achievement in operations research and the management sciences. INFORMS Fellows must demonstrate "exceptional accomplishment and make significant contributions to the advancement of OR/MS over a period of time.
Benjamin Van Roy is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, Management Science and Engineering, and, by courtesy, Computer Science, at Stanford University, where he has served on the faculty since 1998. His research focuses on understanding how an agent interacting with a poorly understood environment can learn over time to make effective decisions. He is interested in questions concerning what is possible or impossible as well as how to design efficient learning algorithms that achieve the possible. His research contributes to the fields of reinforcement learning, online optimization, and approximate dynamic programming, and offers means to addressing central problems of artificial intelligence.
Ben Van Roy Profile
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