Peter Stone
Truchard Foundation Chair of Computer Science at UT Austin and Chief Scientist of Sony AI
A University of Texas at Austin professor and chief scientist of Sony AI, whose robot soccer teams have won many RoboCup championships.
Biography
Peter Stone is an American computer scientist who holds the Truchard Foundation Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and is chief scientist of Sony AI. He earned a BS in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1993 and an MS in 1995 and PhD in 1998 in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. After a postdoc at CMU and time at AT&T Labs Research he joined UT Austin in 2002, became full professor in 2012, founded Texas Robotics and became chair of the computer science department in 2025.
He co-authored the papers that first proposed the robot soccer challenges around which RoboCup was founded and was president of the RoboCup Federation from 2019 to 2022. His teams have won RoboCup championships in the simulation league in many years, as well as the standard platform and small-wheeled leagues, and his agents have won trading agent competitions. He chaired the inaugural study panel of the One Hundred Year Study of Artificial Intelligence, which released its first report in 2016.
Notable contributions
Helped establish RoboCup robot soccer
Co-authored the papers that first proposed the robot soccer challenges around which RoboCup was founded, and later served as president of the RoboCup Federation from 2019 to 2022.
Won RoboCup championships
Developed robot soccer teams that have won RoboCup titles in the simulation, standard platform and small-wheeled leagues.
Chaired the first AI100 study panel
Chaired the inaugural study panel of the One Hundred Year Study of Artificial Intelligence, which released its report in September 2016.