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#18Founder/CEORobotics & Autonomous Systems

Pieter Abbeel

UC Berkeley / Covariant

Specialties

RoboticsReinforcement Learning

Location

Belgium/USA

Education

PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University (2008).

Biography

Professor at UC Berkeley. Co-founder of Covariant. Director of Berkeley Robot Learning Lab. Deep RL pioneer.

Key Influence

Bridged deep RL with real-world robotics. Co-founder of Covariant.

Awards & Recognition

IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, Sloan Fellow