Work Experience
Google DeepMind
Director, AI Safety and Alignment
Position
Director, AI Safety and Alignment
Director, AI Safety and Alignment / Google DeepMind / Associate Professor / UC Berkeley EECS
Anca Dragan is a prominent figure in AI and robotics, currently serving as the Director of AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind while on leave from her role as an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley's EECS Department. Her research, conducted through the InterACT Lab, focuses on algorithms for human-AI and human-robot interaction, particularly on AI alignment to ensure agents act in accordance with human goals and values. She is recognized for her work in reward engineering and enabling AI agents to work collaboratively with people.
Director, AI Safety and Alignment
Director, AI Safety and Alignment
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Staff Research Scientist (Consultant)
Staff Research Scientist (Consultant)
PhD
PhD - Robotics
BS
BS - Computer Science
Focuses on algorithms for human-AI and human-robot interaction, including reward learning and coordination.
Leads teams responsible for the safety and alignment of Gemini models, addressing present-day harms and catastrophic risks.
Co-PI of the Center for Human-Compatible AI, dedicated to ensuring AI systems align with human goals.
Consulted for Waymo for six years on the roadmap for deploying increasingly learning-based safety-critical systems.
Anca Dragan's research centers on enabling AI agents, from robots to LLMs, to interact effectively and safely with people, with a strong focus on AI alignment and human-robot interaction.
AI Alignment
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Reward Learning
Human-AI Collaboration
Autonomous Systems Safety
Google DeepMind
UC Berkeley EECS
Waymo
Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab
Center for Human-Compatible AI
Sloan Fellowship
MIT TR35
Okawa Award
NSF CAREER Award
PECASE Award
Machine Learning
Robotics
Human Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence