Pieter Abbeel
Pieter Abbeel | |
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| Born | 1977 (age 48–49) |
| Alma mater | KU Leuven (BS, MS) Stanford University (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep reinforcement learning, robotics, unsupervised learning |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Apprenticeship learning and reinforcement learning with application to robotic control (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrew Ng |
| Doctoral students | |
Pieter Abbeel (born 1977) is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and co-director of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the co-founder of Covariant, a venture-funded start-up that aims to teach robots new, complex skills, and co-founder of Gradescope, an online grading system that has been implemented in over 500 universities across the United States. 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 as an Investment Partner. AIX Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in artificial intelligence startups.