CS and Statistics Professor Emeritus Peter Bartlett has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) as one of 120 national and 25 international members. NAS members are recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Bartlett is currently Head of Google Research Australia and Principal Scientest at Google DeepMind.and has been Director of the Foundations of Data Science Institute and Director of the Collaboration on the Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning since 2020. His research interests include machine learning and statistical learning theory.
Those elected this year bring the total number of active NAS members to 2,705 national and 557 international members. The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, recognizing achievement in science by election to membership.
