Peter Stone is the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group (LARG) within the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as associate department chair and Director of Texas Robotics. He was a co-founder of Cogitai, Inc. and is now Executive Director of Sony AI America.

His main research interest in AI is understanding how we can best create complete intelligent agents. He considers adaptation, interaction, and embodiment to be essential capabilities of such agents. He focuses mainly on machine learning, multiagent systems, and robotics. He researches topics that are inspired by challenging real-world problems. His AI applications have included robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, autonomous vehicles, and human-interactive agents.