Pieter Abbeel

Pieter Abbeel has been a Professor at UC Berkeley (EECS, BAIR) since 2008 and was a Research Scientist at OpenAI during 2016-2017. Pieter has developed apprenticeship learning algorithms that have enabled advanced helicopter aerobatics, including maneuvers such as tic-tocs, chaos and auto-rotation, which only exceptional human pilots can perform. His group has enabled the first end-to-end completion of reliably picking up a crumpled laundry article and folding it and has pioneered deep reinforcement learning for robotics, including learning locomotion and visuomotor skills. His current research focuses on robotics and machine learning with particular focus on deep reinforcement learning, deep imitation learning, deep unsupervised learning, meta-learning, learning-to-learn, and AI safety.

You can read more about Prof. Abbeel’s work and accomplishments at his website.