Martha White
Professor of Computing Science, University of Alberta
CTO & Co-founder, RL Core Technologies
Martha White is a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta and a Fellow of Amii, which is one of the top machine learning centres in the world. She holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Reinforcement Learning, received IEEE’s “AIs 10 to Watch: The Future of AI” award in 2020 and was inducted into the College of New Scholars by the Royal Society of Canada in 2024.
She has authored more than 80 papers in top journals and conferences. Martha is an Action Editor for JMLR and TMLR, serves on the RLC board and has served as co-program chair for ICLR and for RLC. Her research focus is on developing reinforcement learning algorithms that learn to adapt continually, with a focus on process control and more sustainable systems.
