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Pieter Abbeel is a Professor and the Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab as well as Co-Director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence (BAIR) Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on building intelligent systems, pushing the frontiers of deep reinforcement learning, deep imitation learning, deep unsupervised learning, and transfer learning. Abbeel also investigates the impact of artificial intelligence on various scientific and engineering disciplines. His introduction to artificial intelligence course has been taken by over 100,000 students on edX, and he has contributed significantly to deep reinforcement learning and deep unsupervised learning resources widely regarded as standard references within the AI research community. Abbeel has founded several companies, including Gradescope, Covariant, and Berkeley Open Arms, and serves as an advisor to numerous AI and robotics startups. His work has garnered significant attention from major media outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Rolling Stone, Wired, and Tech Review.
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