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Expert in Artificial Intelligence, and specifically Deep Reinforcement Learning, Deep Unsupervised Learning, Robotics
Professor
Director of the Robot Learning Lab
Co-Director of the
Berkeley AI Research Lab
BS/MS Electrical Engineering – KU Leuven – 2000
PhD
Computer Science – Stanford -- 2008
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