# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-johan-astrom
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:48:36.684Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-johan-astrom"
name: "Karl Johan Åström"
slug: "karl-johan-astrom"
description: "Karl Johan Åström is a Swedish control theorist, who has made contributions to the fields of control theory and control engineering, computer control and adaptive control. In 1965, he described a general framework of Markov decision processes with incomplete information, what ultimately led to the notion of a Partially observable Markov decision process."
tagline: "Swedish control theorist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
birthDate: "1934-08-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump