Geoffrey J. Gordon

Geoffrey J. Gordon is a professor at the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh^[3] and director of research at the Microsoft Montréal lab.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9]} He is known for his research in statistical relational learning^[10] (a subdiscipline of artificial intelligence and machine learning) and on anytime dynamic variants of the A* search algorithm.^[11] His research interests include multi-agent planning, reinforcement learning, decision-theoretic planning, statistical models of difficult data (e.g. maps, video, text), computational learning theory, and game theory.

Geoff Gordon
Awards	NSF Graduate Research Fellowship[1][2]
Academic background
Education	Cornell University (BA)
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
Thesis	Approximate Solutions to Markov Decision Processes (1999)
Doctoral advisor	Tom M. Mitchell
Academic work
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University
Doctoral students	Joelle Pineau Byron Boots
Website	https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ggordon/

Gordon received a B.A. in computer science from Cornell University in 1991, and a PhD at Carnegie Mellon in 1999.^[9]