Pieter Abbeel

Co-Founder, President, Chief Scientist

2017 - Current

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.

Professor

2008

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: 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

Investment Partner

2021

Try my best to help AI start-ups

Podcast Host

2021

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

Co-Founder

2014 - 2018

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!

Research Scientist

2016 - 2017

Ph.D. student

2002 - 2008

Undergrad Electrical Engineering

1995 - 2000