Michael L. Littman is professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University and directs the Rutgers Laboratory for Real-Life Reinforcement Learning (RL3). His research in machine learning examines algorithms for decision making under uncertainty. Littman has earned multiple awards for teaching and his research has been recognized with three best-paper awards on the topics of meta-learning for computer crossword solving, complexity analysis of planning under uncertainty, and algorithms for efficient reinforcement learning. He has served on the editorial boards for several machine-learning journals and was Programme Co-chair of ICML 2009.