Michael L Littman is a professor of Computer Science at Brown University.  He was elected ACM Fellow in 2018 "For contributions to the design and analysis of sequential decision making algorithms in artificial intelligence". 

Featured References 

Convergent Actor Critic by Humans 
James MacGlashan, Michael L. Littman, David L. Roberts, Robert Tyler Loftin, Bei Peng, Matthew E. Taylor 

People teach with rewards and punishments as communication, not reinforcements 
Mark Ho, Fiery Cushman, Michael L. Littman, Joseph Austerweil 

Theory of Minds: Understanding Behavior in Groups Through Inverse Planning 
Michael Shum, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Michael L. Littman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum 

Personalized education at scale 
Saarinen, Cater, Littman 

Additional References 

• Michael Littman papers on Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar 
• Reinforcement Learning on Udacity, Charles Isbell, Michael Littman, Chris Pryby  
• Machine Learning on Udacity, Michael Littman, Charles Isbell, Pushkar Kolhe  
• Temporal Difference Learning and TD-Gammon, Gerald Tesauro 
• Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning, Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver, Alex Graves, Ioannis Antonoglou, Daan Wierstra, Martin Riedmiller 
• Ask Me Anything about MOOCs, D Fisher, C Isbell, ML Littman, M Wollowski, et al 
• Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM) Conference 
• Algorithms for Sequential Decision Making, Michael Littman's Thesis 
• Machine Learning A Cappella - Overfitting Thriller!, Michael Littman and Charles Isbell feat Infinite Harmony 
• Turbotax Ad 2016: Genius Anna/Michael Littman