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Peter Dayan

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Director at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Dayan is a foundational figure in reinforcement learning and computational neuroscience. He helped establish Q-learning’s mathematical foundations and showed how dopamine can carry reward-prediction errors, connecting algorithms for learning and decision-making with the brain. His work helped create a lasting intellectual bridge between modern AI and neuroscience.

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Background

Current role
Previously
1998-2018Founding Faculty, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit,
2002-2017Director, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 14, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 14, '26 to Sep 1, '26127,155126,851126,547Aug 14, '26Sep 1, '26
127,155citations as of Sep 1, '26+608 since Aug 14, '26
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