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'''Risto Miikkulainen''',<br/>
a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Americans Finnish American] computer scientist and professor at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin University of Texas at Austin].
He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles University of California, Los Angeles] under [[Mathematician#MGDyer|Michael G. Dyer]], on the topic of distributed [[Neural Networks|artificial neural networks]].
His research focuses on biologically-inspired computation such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution neuroevolution],
i.e. evolving [[Neural Networks|neural networks]] with [[Genetic Programming#GeneticAlgorithm|genetic algorithms]] for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_decision_making sequential decision tasks] such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics robotics], [[Games|games]], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life artificial life].
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