| RefNo | EC/2018/11 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Dayan, Peter: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 9 May 2018 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election Peter Dayan as a Fellow of the Royal Society, including personal details of the elected Fellow and citing the reasons for election and names of proposers. Signed by Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | Peter Dayan is a world-leading theoretical and computational neuroscientist. He has made important contributions to many areas of research including computational psychiatry and most importantly to Reinforcement Learning (RL), the study of artificial and natural systems for maximizing rewards and minimizing punishments. He showed that dopamine neurons signal a prediction error for future reward, inspiring extensive work into prediction error learning in appetitive and aversive settings. He was director of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit from 2002 until October 2017, guiding one of the premier institutions in theoretical neuroscience and machine learning, and training many future leaders in the field. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |