Stuart J. Russell

Stuart Russell
OBE FRS
Stuart Russell OBE FRS
	Russell in 2019
Born	Stuart Jonathan Russell; 1962 (age 63–64); Portsmouth, England
Citizenship	British; American
Education	University of Oxford (BA); Stanford University (PhD)
Known for	Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Awards	IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1995); IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (2022); AAAI Fellow (1997); ACM Fellow (2003); AAAS Fellow (2011); Blaise Pascal Chair (2012); Reith Lectures (2021);
	Scientific career
Fields	Artificial intelligence
Workplaces	University of California, Berkeley; University of California, San Francisco;
Thesis	Analogical and Inductive Reasoning (1987)
Doctoral advisor	Michael Genesereth
Doctoral students	Marie desJardins; Eric Xing; Shlomo Zilberstein;
Other notable students	Nando de Freitas; (postdoctoral researcher); Nir Friedman; (postdoctoral researcher); Lise Getoor; (master's student); Daphne Koller; (postdoctoral researcher);
Website	people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell/

Stuart Jonathan Russell OBE FRS (born 1962) is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI). He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and was from 2008 to 2011 an adjunct professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. Russell is the co-author with Peter Norvig of the authoritative textbook of the field of AI: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach used in more than 1,500 universities in 135 countries.