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Pieter Abbeel
Class of Technical Sciences
Membership: Foreign Member
Since: 2021
Discipline: Artificial intelligence
Summary:
Expert in Artificial Intelligence, and specifically Deep Reinforcement Learning, Deep Unsupervised Learning, Robotics
Activity:
Professor
Director of the Robot Learning Lab
Co-Director of the Berkeley AI Research Lab
Training:
BS/MS Electrical Engineering - KU Leuven - 2000
PhD Computer Science - Stanford -- 2008
Awards:
ICRA 2021 Best Field Robotics Paper Finalist
ICRA 2021 Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Finalist
ICRA 2018 Best Paper Finalist
ICLR 2018 Best Paper Award
NIPS 2016 Best Paper Award
ICRA 2015 Best Robotic Manipulation Paper Award
ICRA 2015 Best Medical Robotics Paper Finalist
ICRA 2013 Best Vision Paper Award
ICRA 2012 Best Vision Paper Finalist
ICRA 2010 Best Medical Robotics Paper Award
ICML 2008 Best Application Paper Award
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (IEEE Technical Field Award) (2022)
Diane McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching 2018 (Computer Science, UC Berkeley)
IEEE Fellow (class of 2018)
CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award
PECASE: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Sloan Fellowship
NSF-CAREER: National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program Award
AFOSR-YIP: Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award
ONR-YIP: Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award
Darpa-YFA: Darpa Young Faculty Award
Okawa Foundation Award
TR35: MIT Technology Review Top 35 Innovators under 35
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award
Dick Volz Best U.S. Ph.D. Thesis in Robotics and Automation Award