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Risto Miikkulainen is VP of AI Research at the Cognizant AI Lab and a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on AI methods for decision-making, neuroevolution, generative AI, and neural network models for natural language processing and vision, and he is the author of over 500 articles in these areas. He earned an M.S. in Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA in 1990.
Bio from: Microsoft Ignite 2025
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Cognizant VP of AI Research Risto Miikkulainen shares how to design, test, and scale safe multi-agent systems. Discover research showing how multi-agent systems can solve tasks beyond single-agent models, even with a million agents. Learn how to evaluate and fine-tune agent confidence using evolutionary strategies and apply these innovations to drive organizational growth.
In this week's episode, Kyle is joined by Risto Miikkulainen, a professor of computer science and neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin. They talk about evolutionary computation, its applications in deep learning, and how it's inspired by biology. They also discuss some of the things Sentient Technologies is working on in stock and finances, retail, e-commerce and web design, as well as the technology behind it-- evolutionary algorithms.