Pieter Abbeel's Profile

Pieter Abbeel

Professor, Director of the Robot Learning Lab / UC Berkeley / Distinguished Scientist, VP, Scholar / Amazon

Pieter Abbeel is a highly influential figure in the fields of machine learning and robotics, serving as a Professor and Director of the Robot Learning Lab at UC Berkeley. He is a co-founder of covariant.ai and Gradescope, an advisor to OpenAI, and an Investment Partner at AIX Ventures. His pioneering research focuses on deep reinforcement learning, deep imitation learning, and meta-learning, with his work frequently featured in popular media.

PhD, Stanford University

United States

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2 (Covariant, Gradescope)

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Work Experience

Amazon

Distinguished Scientist, VP, Scholar

Sep 2024 - Present

Position

Distinguished Scientist, VP, Scholar

University of California, Berkeley

Professor

Aug 2008 - Present

Responsibilities

Research and teaching in artificial intelligence and robotics. Lately, that largely means in deep learning, reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning, self-supervised learning, meta-learning. Some things we invented in our research: Diffusion Models, TRPO, MAML, InfoGAN, SAC, GAE, MA-DDPG, Domain Randomization, Hindsight Experience Replay... Some classes I teach: - Deep Unsupervised Learning: https://sites.google.com/view/berkeley-cs294-158-sp20/home - Intro to AI: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs188/fa18/staff.html - The Business of AI: https://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/zskatona/ewmba267-11-s21.html

AIX Ventures

Founding Investment Partner

Aug 2021 - Nov 2024

Responsibilities

Try my best to help AI start-ups

covariant.ai

Co-Founder, President, Chief Scientist

Oct 2017 - Aug 2024

Responsibilities

Drawing on recent advances in Deep Imitation Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning, Embodied Intelligence is developing AI software that makes it easy to teach robots new, complex skills.

The Robot Brains Podcast

Podcast Host

Mar 2021 - Sep 2023

Responsibilities

In each episode of The Robot Brains podcast (coming soon), renowned artificial intelligence researcher, professor and entrepreneur Pieter Abbeel meets the brilliant minds attempting to build robots with brains. Pieter is joined by leading experts in AI Robotics from all over the world as he explores how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious computers, mindful machines and rational robots. https://open.spotify.com/show/2qbLq3HrhTnnmmsHc37QOD

Gradescope

Co-Founder

Oct 2014 - Oct 2018

Responsibilities

Gradescope was acquired by TurnItIn in Fall 2018! Gradescope is a web-app that streamlines grading, with instructors reporting it allows them to grade 2x faster while also improving accuracy, consistency and transparency, and without compromising on assessment format. It's free, you should try it out if you 'd like to spend less time on grading without compromising on quality!