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Richard S. Sutton
Cofounder at Oak Lab
Professor at University of Alberta
Sutton is one of the founders of modern reinforcement learning, the approach in which an AI improves through experience and feedback. He developed temporal-difference learning, co-wrote the field's standard textbook, and shared the 2024 Turing Award before launching Oak Lab to pursue continually learning agents.
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Cofounder July 2026-presentOak Lab
Oak LabProfessorUniversity of Alberta
University of AlbertaPreviously
Until July 2026Research Scientist, Keen Technologies
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Last editorial review: August 8, 2026News 2
org_addedRichard Sutton and Khurram Javed launch Oak Lab
The reinforcement-learning researchers left Keen Technologies to build agents that learn continually from experience.
July 13, 2026moveRichard Sutton leaves Keen Technologies to found Oak LabSutton and Khurram Javed have started a Toronto lab pursuing a different path toward understanding intelligence.
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