Sean Meyn is a professor and holds the Robert C. Pittman Eminent Scholar Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida. He is well known for his research on stochastic processes and their applications. His award-winning monograph Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability with R. L. Tweedie is now a standard reference. In 2015 he and Prof. Ana Busic received a Google Research Award recognizing research on renewable energy integration. He is an IEEE Fellow and IEEE Control Systems Society distinguished lecturer on topics related to both reinforcement learning and energy systems.