Ron Parr's Bio
Ron Parr is an associate professor at the Duke University Department of
Computer Science. He received his A.B. (Cum Laude) in Philosophy in 1990
from Princeton University, where he was advised by Gilbert Harman. In
1998, he received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of
California at Berkeley, under the supervision of Stuart Russell. After
graduating from Berkeley, Ron spent two years as a postdoctoral research
associate at Stanford University, where he worked with Daphne Koller. He
was selected as a Sloan fellow in 2003. In 2006, he received the NSF
CAREER ward and served on DARPA's computer science study group (CSSG). He
was program co-chair for the 2007 UAI conference, and general chair of the
2008 UAI conference. Ron has served on the editorial boards of JAIR and
MLJ, and is an action editor for JMLR.