Pieter Abbeel | |
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Born | Antwerp, Belgium |
Alma mater | Stanford University (PhD) KU Leuven (MS) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep reinforcement learning, robotics, unsupervised learning |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Covariant.AI |
Doctoral advisor | Andrew Ng |
Doctoral students | Chelsea Finn |
Pieter Abbeel is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences,[1] Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab,[2] and co-director of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR)[3] Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the co-founder of Covariant,[4][5][6][7][8] a venture-funded start-up that aims to teach robots new, complex skills, and co-founder of Gradescope,[9] an online grading system that has been implemented in over 500 universities across the USA. He is best known for his cutting-edge research in robotics and machine learning, particularly in deep reinforcement learning. In 2021, he joined AIX Ventures[10] as an Investment Partner. AIX Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in artificial intelligence startups.