Peter Bartlett
DeepMind, UC Berkeley
About
Peter Bartlett is Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. At Berkeley, he is the Machine Learning Research Director at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Director of the Foundations of Data Science Institute, and Director of the Collaboration on the Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning. His research interests include machine learning and statistical learning theory. He has been at Berkeley since 2003. In 2022-2023, he was Head of Google Research Australia. From 2017 to 2022, he served as Associate Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley. He has been a Professor in Mathematical Sciences and Australian Laureate Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology (2011-2017), a Miller Institute Visiting Research Professor in Statistics and Computer Science at UC Berkeley (Fall 2001), a fellow, senior fellow, and professor in the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University's Institute for Advanced Studies (1993-2003), an honorary professor at the University of Queensland and a visiting professor at the University of Paris. He is President of the Association for Computational Learning, Honorary Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the Australian National University, and co-author with Martin Anthony of the book Neural Network Learning: Theoretical Foundations. He has served as an associate editor of the Journal of the ACM, Bernoulli, Mathematics of Operations Research, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, the Journal of Machine Learning Research, the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Machine Learning, and Mathematics of Control Signals and Systems, and as program committee co-chair for COLT and NeurIPS. He was awarded the Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year in Australia in 2001, and was chosen as an Institute of Mathematical Statistics Medallion Lecturer in 2008, an IMS Fellow and Australian Laureate Fellow in 2011, a Fellow of the ACM in 2018, a recipient of the Chancellor's Distinguished Service Award in 2023 and a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2026. He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2015.