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Gergely Neu awarded with the first Bosch Young Researcher Award for his excellent achievements in Reinforcement Learning

(See original press release by Bosch here)

"Stuttgart, Germany 

Bosch has presented the Bosch AI Young Researcher Award, endowed with 50,000 euros, for the first time. Dr. Gergely Neu, scientist at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, won the jury over with his basic research in reinforcement learning (RL), an area of artificial intelligence (AI). 

Dr. Michael Bolle, management board member, Chief Digital Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Bosch, congratulated the 34-year-old honoree on his excellent achievements as he presented him with the Bosch AI Young Researcher Award at Bosch AI CON 2019 in Renningen. “This award is a way for the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence to recognize the exceptional achievements of young researchers in artificial intelligence,” Bolle says. “Gergely Neu’s research plays a major role in making AI more robust, more reliable, and more understandable.” 

The five-person jury of researchers from academia and industry reviewed submissions from across Europe and honored Neu’s application as the most promising, not least due to his research on probability theory. Neu’s work focuses on known “multi-armed bandit problems” through which algorithms learn to find their way through countless situations that can be combined in myriad ways."