Chris Watkins, PhD

World-class authority on reinforcement learning & evolutionary theory. Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Royal Holloway, University of London. Coined the Q-Table algorithm approach that spurred the resurgence in reinforcement learning (this approach was at the heart of Google’s recent successful AI projects). Prior to returning to academia, Chris was employed as a quant at a hedge fund firm in London for several years. Chris is presently working on how to make generally intelligent machines, along with abstract models of evolution, and statistical visualization.