Peter Dayan, Date of Birth

Peter Dayan

American mathematician, author, and computer scientist

Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1965

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Peter Samuel Dayan is director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany.
He is co-author of Theoretical Neuroscience, an influential textbook on computational neuroscience.
He is known for applying bayesian methods from machine learning and artificial intelligence to understand neural function and is particularly recognized for relating neurotransmitter levels to prediction errors and Bayesian uncertainties.
He has pioneered the field of reinforcement learning (RL) where he helped develop the Q-learning algorithm, and made contributions to unsupervised learning, including the wake-sleep algorithm for neural networks and the Helmholtz machine.