Michael L. Littman is the Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science at Brown University. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from Yale University and his PhD in Computer Science from Brown University.

Professor Littman’s teaching has received numerous awards, including the Robert B. Cox Award from Duke University, the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching from Rutgers University, and both the Philip J. Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Physical Sciences and the Distinguished Research Achievement Award from Brown University. His research papers have been honored for their lasting impact, earning him the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Classic Paper Award at the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Influential Paper Award at the Eleventh International Conference on Machine Learning.

Professor Littman is the codirector of the Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative at Brown University. He served as program cochair for the 26th International Conference on Machine Learning, the 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and the 4th Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making. He is a fellow of the AAAI, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Leshner Leadership Institute for Public Engagement with Science.

Professor Littman gave two TEDx talks on artificial intelligence, and he appeared in the documentary We Need to Talk about A.I. He also hosts a popular YouTube channel with computer science research videos and educational music videos.