Ronald Parr: advisors and students

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Ronald Parr

American computer scientist

Supervised 5 doctoral students (7 students at any level); Wikidata names Stuart J. Russell as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 2 other registers.

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Students7

cited by a thesis record
Mark William Nemecek “Transfer Learning in Value-based Methods with Successor Features”
2023 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Zheqing Zhu “Model-based Reinforcement Learning in Modified Levy Jump-Diffusion MarkovDecision Model and Its Financial Applications”
2017 · bachelor's
cited by a thesis record
Jason Pazis “PAC-optimal, Non-parametric Algorithms and Bounds for Exploration in Concurrent MDPs with Delayed Updates”
2015 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Julian Mason “Object Discovery with a Mobile Robot”
2013 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Christopher Robert Painter-Wakefield “Sparse Value Function Approximation for Reinforcement Learning”
2013 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gavin Taylor “Feature Selection for Value Function Approximation”
2011 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Monika Schaeffer “Efficient selection of disambiguating actions for stereo vision”
2010 · master's

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Stuart J. Russell

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataStuart J. Russell
2 steps up
stated by WikidataMichael Genesereth
3 steps up
stated by WikidataJoel Moses
4 steps up
stated by WikidataMarvin Minskystated by WikidataSeymour Papert

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 5 people: 5 cited by thesis records.

Education and career4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

1998 to 2000
Stanford University
worked
from 2000
Duke University
worked
undated
Princeton University
studied
undated
University of California, Berkeley
studied

At a glance

known as: university teacher, computer scientist
awards: AAAI Fellow, 2023

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere4

identity

stated by WikidataWikidataQ94608979

papers

stated by WikidataGoogle Scholarb-GJ3QIAAAAJ
stated by WikidataDBLP26/4670

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project290805

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Ronald Parr: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q94608979},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Ronald Parr: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q94608979