Dr. Peter Stone is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Guggenheim
Fellow, and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences
at the University of Texas at Austin.  He received his Ph.D. in 1998
and his M.S. in 1995 from Carnegie Mellon University, both in Computer
Science.  He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of
Chicago in 1993.  From 1999 to 2002 he was a Senior Technical Staff
Member in the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department
at AT&T Labs - Research.

Peter's research interests include planning and machine learning,
particularly in multiagent systems.  His doctoral thesis research
contributed a flexible multiagent team structure and multiagent
machine learning techniques for teams operating in real-time noisy
environments in the presence of both teammates and adversaries.  His
long-term research goal is to create complete, robust, autonomous
agents that can learn to interact with other intelligent agents in a
wide range of complex, dynamic environments.

Prof. Stone is currently continuing his investigation of machine
learning and multiagent learning at UT Austin.  Application domains
include robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents for auctions, and
autonomous traffic management.  Within the robot soccer domain, he is
studying multiagent techniques in reinforcement learning, specifically
temporal difference learning, for learning successful policies by a
team of cooperating agents.  In the context of auctions, he is
investigating adaptive bidding policies that are applicable for
simultaneous multi-round auctions involving interacting goods.  In
autonomic computing, he is focussing on automatic hardware
configuration in response to changing workloads, and in autonomous
intersection management he has developed a novel protocol by which
autonomous vehicles can traverse intersections with 2 orders of
magnitude less delay than is possible with traffic signals or stop
signs.

Prof. Stone is a trustee of the international RoboCup Federation, was
a co-chair of RoboCup-2001 at IJCAI-01, and was a Program Co-Chair of
AAMAS 2006.  He has developed teams of robot soccer agents that have
won RoboCup championships in the simulation (1998, 1999, 2003, 2005)
and in the small-wheeled robot (1997, 1998) leagues.  He led tutorials
on robot soccer at AAAI-99, Agents-99, and IJCAI-99.  He has also
developed agents that have won auction trading agents competitions
(2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006).  Peter has served on various program
committees and has co-chaired workshops on learning agents (at
Agents-2000, Agents-2001, and the AAAI Spring Symposium in 2002) and
on RoboCup (at RoboCup-2000).

Prof. Stone is the author of "Layered Learning in Multiagent Systems:
A Winning Approach to Robotic Soccer" (MIT Press, 2000), co-author of
"Autonomous Bidding Agents: Strategies and Lessons from the Trading
Agent Competition" (MIT Press, 2007), and co-editor of "RoboCup 2000:
Robot Soccer World Cup IV" (Springer Verlag, 2001) as well as an
author of many technical papers in conferences and journals.
Prof. Stone won best-paper awards at the RoboCup Symposium in 2007, at
the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in 2006,
and at the Agents-2001 conference.  He was awarded the Allen Newell
Medal for Excellence in Research in 1997.  In 2003, he won a CAREER
award from the National Science Foundation for his research on
learning agents in dynamic, collaborative, and adversarial multiagent
environments.  In 2004, he was named an ONR Young Investigator for his
research on machine learning on physical robots.  Most recently, he
was awarded the prestigious IJCAI 2007 Computers and Thought award.