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'''Justin Andrew Boyan''',<br/>
an American computer scientist and product manager at [[Google]]. He holds a B.Sc. in mathematics from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago University of Chicago] in 1991, a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Philosophy Master of Philosophy] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_processing computer speech] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing language processing] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge University of Cambridge] in 1992 <ref>[[Justin A. Boyan]] ('''1992'''). ''Modular Neural Networks for Learning Context-Dependent Game Strategies''. Master's thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge University of Cambridge], [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/pubs/boyan.backgammon-thesis.pdf pdf]</ref>, and a Ph.D. in computer science from [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1998, where his advisors include [[Mathematician#SFahlman|Scott Fahlman]] and [[Mathematician#AWMoore|Andrew W. Moore]] <ref>[http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=50253 Justin Boyan - The Mathematics Genealogy Project]</ref> <ref>[[Justin A. Boyan]] ('''1998'''). ''Learning Evaluation Functions for Global Optimization''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Carnegie Mellon University]], advisors [[Mathematician#SFahlman|Scott Fahlman]] and [[Mathematician#AWMoore|Andrew W. Moore]]</ref>. Until 2000, he was research scientist at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_Research_Center NASA Ames Research Center] with assignment as visiting scientist to [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory AI Lab]. His research interests include [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]], [[Learning|statistical machine learning]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_extraction information extraction], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization optimization]. In the early 90s, he wrote software combining [[Temporal Difference Learning|temporal difference learning]] and modular [[Neural Networks|neural networks]] in order to train an expert-level computer [[Backgammon]] player from scratch. His program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=270 Maestro] placed second at the [[4th Computer Olympiad#Backgammon|4th Computer Olympiad, London 1992]] <ref>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/cv100.html Curriculum Vitae - Justin Andrew Boyan]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Boyan:Justin_A= dblp: Justin A. Boyan]</ref> <ref>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/cv100.html Curriculum Vitae - Justin Andrew Boyan]</ref>
* [[Justin A. Boyan]] ('''1992'''). ''Modular Neural Networks for Learning Context-Dependent Game Strategies''. Master's thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge University of Cambridge], [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/pubs/boyan.backgammon-thesis.pdf pdf]
* [[Justin A. Boyan]], [[Michael L. Littman]] ('''1993'''). ''Packet Routing in Dynamically Changing Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach''. [https://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-6-1993 NIPS 1993], [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/pubs/boyan.q-routing.pdf pdf]
* [[Justin A. Boyan]], [[Mathematician#AWMoore|Andrew W. Moore]] ('''1994'''). ''Generalization in Reinforcement Learning: Safely Approximating the Value Function''. [https://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-7-1994 NIPS 1994], [https://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub1/boyan_justin_1995_1/boyan_justin_1995_1.pdf pdf]
* [[Justin A. Boyan]], [[Mathematician#AWMoore|Andrew W. Moore]] ('''1996'''). ''Learning Evaluation Functions for Large Acyclic Domains''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icml/icml1996.html#BoyanM96 ICML 1996], [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/pubs/boyan.acyclic.pdf pdf]
* [[Justin A. Boyan]] ('''1996'''). ''A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Combinatorial Optimization''. [[AAAI|AAAI/IAAI-96]], Vol. 2, [http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1996/AAAI96-230.pdf pdf]
* [[Justin A. Boyan]], [[Mathematician#AWMoore|Andrew W. Moore]] ('''1998'''). ''Learning Evaluation Functions for Global Optimization and Boolean Satisfiability''. [[AAAI|AAAAI/IAAI 1998]], [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/34d5/e5f0f1595d7e9c87952baa177c07f82b02ca.pdf pdf]
* [[Justin A. Boyan]] ('''1998'''). ''Least-Squares Temporal Difference Learning''. [[Carnegie Mellon University]], CMU-CS-98-152, [http://www.research.rutgers.edu/~lihong/project/ahlp/boyan99least.pdf pdf] <ref>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/copy.award.html ICML-99 Best Paper Award]</ref>
* [[Justin A. Boyan]] ('''1998'''). ''Learning Evaluation Functions for Global Optimization''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Carnegie Mellon University]], advisors [[Mathematician#SFahlman|Scott Fahlman]] and [[Mathematician#AWMoore|Andrew W. Moore]], [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/thesis/thesis.ps.gz zipped ps]
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/boyan/ Justin Boyan | LinkedIn]
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/cv100.html Curriculum Vitae - Justin Andrew Boyan]
* [https://plus.google.com/+JustinBoyan Justin Boyan - Google+]
* [https://twitter.com/jboyan Justin Boyan (@jboyan) | Twitter]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=260 Justin Boyan's ICGA Tournaments]
* [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=50253 Justin Boyan - The Mathematics Genealogy Project]
=References=
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[[FILE:JustinBoyan.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=https://www.linkedin.com/in/boyan/|Justin A. Boyan <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/in/boyan/ Justin Boyan | LinkedIn]</ref> ]]
'''Justin Andrew Boyan''',<br/>
an American computer scientist and product manager at [[Google]]. He holds a B.Sc. in mathematics from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago University of Chicago] in 1991, a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Philosophy Master of Philosophy] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_processing computer speech] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing language processing] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge University of Cambridge] in 1992 <ref>[[Justin A. Boyan]] ('''1992'''). ''Modular Neural Networks for Learning Context-Dependent Game Strategies''. Master's thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge University of Cambridge], [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/pubs/boyan.backgammon-thesis.pdf pdf]</ref>, and a Ph.D. in computer science from [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1998, where his advisors include [[Mathematician#SFahlman|Scott Fahlman]] and [[Mathematician#AWMoore|Andrew W. Moore]] <ref>[http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=50253 Justin Boyan - The Mathematics Genealogy Project]</ref> <ref>[[Justin A. Boyan]] ('''1998'''). ''Learning Evaluation Functions for Global Optimization''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Carnegie Mellon University]], advisors [[Mathematician#SFahlman|Scott Fahlman]] and [[Mathematician#AWMoore|Andrew W. Moore]]</ref>. Until 2000, he was research scientist at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_Research_Center NASA Ames Research Center] with assignment as visiting scientist to [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory AI Lab]. His research interests include [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]], [[Learning|statistical machine learning]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_extraction information extraction], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization optimization]. In the early 90s, he wrote software combining [[Temporal Difference Learning|temporal difference learning]] and modular [[Neural Networks|neural networks]] in order to train an expert-level computer [[Backgammon]] player from scratch. His program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=270 Maestro] placed second at the [[4th Computer Olympiad#Backgammon|4th Computer Olympiad, London 1992]] <ref>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/cv100.html Curriculum Vitae - Justin Andrew Boyan]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Boyan:Justin_A= dblp: Justin A. Boyan]</ref> <ref>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/cv100.html Curriculum Vitae - Justin Andrew Boyan]</ref>
* [[Justin A. Boyan]] ('''1992'''). ''Modular Neural Networks for Learning Context-Dependent Game Strategies''. Master's thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge University of Cambridge], [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/pubs/boyan.backgammon-thesis.pdf pdf]
* [[Justin A. Boyan]], [[Michael L. Littman]] ('''1993'''). ''Packet Routing in Dynamically Changing Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach''. [https://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-6-1993 NIPS 1993], [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/pubs/boyan.q-routing.pdf pdf]
* [[Justin A. Boyan]], [[Mathematician#AWMoore|Andrew W. Moore]] ('''1994'''). ''Generalization in Reinforcement Learning: Safely Approximating the Value Function''. [https://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-7-1994 NIPS 1994], [https://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub1/boyan_justin_1995_1/boyan_justin_1995_1.pdf pdf]
* [[Justin A. Boyan]], [[Mathematician#AWMoore|Andrew W. Moore]] ('''1996'''). ''Learning Evaluation Functions for Large Acyclic Domains''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icml/icml1996.html#BoyanM96 ICML 1996], [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/pubs/boyan.acyclic.pdf pdf]
* [[Justin A. Boyan]] ('''1996'''). ''A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Combinatorial Optimization''. [[AAAI|AAAI/IAAI-96]], Vol. 2, [http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1996/AAAI96-230.pdf pdf]
* [[Justin A. Boyan]], [[Mathematician#AWMoore|Andrew W. Moore]] ('''1998'''). ''Learning Evaluation Functions for Global Optimization and Boolean Satisfiability''. [[AAAI|AAAAI/IAAI 1998]], [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/34d5/e5f0f1595d7e9c87952baa177c07f82b02ca.pdf pdf]
* [[Justin A. Boyan]] ('''1998'''). ''Least-Squares Temporal Difference Learning''. [[Carnegie Mellon University]], CMU-CS-98-152, [http://www.research.rutgers.edu/~lihong/project/ahlp/boyan99least.pdf pdf] <ref>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/copy.award.html ICML-99 Best Paper Award]</ref>
* [[Justin A. Boyan]] ('''1998'''). ''Learning Evaluation Functions for Global Optimization''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Carnegie Mellon University]], advisors [[Mathematician#SFahlman|Scott Fahlman]] and [[Mathematician#AWMoore|Andrew W. Moore]], [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/thesis/thesis.ps.gz zipped ps]
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/boyan/ Justin Boyan | LinkedIn]
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jab/cv/cv100.html Curriculum Vitae - Justin Andrew Boyan]
* [https://plus.google.com/+JustinBoyan Justin Boyan - Google+]
* [https://twitter.com/jboyan Justin Boyan (@jboyan) | Twitter]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=260 Justin Boyan's ICGA Tournaments]
* [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=50253 Justin Boyan - The Mathematics Genealogy Project]
=References=
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