Risto Miikkulainen (born 16 December 1961) is a Finnish-American computer scientist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
[2] In 2023, he was elected an AAAI Fellow "for significant contribution to neuroevolution techniques and applications",[3] and in 2016, named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for contributions to techniques and applications for neural and evolutionary computation".
[4] He was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2023.
[5] Born in Helsinki, Finland, Miikkulainen has lived in the United States since 1986.
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