Pieter Abbeel

Pieter Abbeel 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.ai, 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 nationwide. 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.

Pieter Abbeel
Born
Antwerp, Belgium
Alma materStanford University (PhD)
KU Leuven (MS)
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence, machine learning, deep reinforcement learning, robotics, unsupervised learning
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley

Gradescope

Covariant.AI
Doctoral advisorAndrew Ng
Doctoral studentsChelsea Finn
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