People
People at University of California, Berkeley
27 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at University of California, Berkeley; 19 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Alexei A. Efros
Howard Friesen Professor, EECS Department; member of BAIR
Howard Friesen Professor in UC Berkeley EECS and member of BAIR; co-author of pix2pix and CycleGAN
Ali Ghodsi
Adjunct Professor
Co-founder and CEO of Databricks; one of the creators of Apache Spark and co-author of the Mesos paper
Anca Dragan
Associate Professor, EECS Department (on leave)
Heads AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind; UC Berkeley associate professor who runs the InterACT Lab
Andy Konwinski
Teaches the PhD seminar Research to Startups in the computer science department
Co-founder of Laude, Databricks and Perplexity; co-author of the Terminal-Bench and Mesos papers
Angjoo Kanazawa
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; leads the KAIR lab
Berkeley EECS associate professor whose lab builds the open-source nerfstudio and gsplat libraries
David Patterson
Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus
Google Fellow and UC Berkeley professor emeritus; co-author of Google TPU papers and MLPerf Training
Ion Stoica
Professor of Computer Science, Xu Bao Chancellor Chair; Director of the Sky Computing Lab
Co-author of the Ray and vLLM papers; UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale
Jacob Steinhardt
Associate Professor of Statistics and EECS
UC Berkeley associate professor of Statistics and EECS; founder and CEO of the nonprofit lab Transluce
Jitendra Malik
Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS
Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley; VP and Distinguished Scientist at Amazon's FAR lab
Joseph E. Gonzalez
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley professor whose group built Gorilla and the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard
Ken Goldberg
William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair of Engineering; Distinguished Professor of IEOR and EECS and Art Practice
UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor working on robot grasping and automation; senior author of Dex-Net 2.0
Krste Asanović
Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School, EECS; Co-Director of the SLICE Lab
Co-founder and Chief Architect of SiFive; RISC-V co-creator and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus
Matei Zaharia
Associate Professor of EECS
Started Apache Spark, helped develop MLflow and co-authored DSPy; UC Berkeley professor and Databricks CTO
Michael I. Jordan
Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emeritus (Professor, 1998–2024)
Co-author of the Ray and latent Dirichlet allocation papers; UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Owain Evans
Affiliate Researcher at CHAI
Director of the nonprofit Truthful AI and affiliate researcher at CHAI, UC Berkeley; TruthfulQA co-author
Pieter Abbeel
Professor, Jim Gray Chair of Engineering; Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab; Co-Director of BAIR
UC Berkeley professor and Robot Learning Lab director; Amazon Scholar; former OpenAI research scientist
Sergey Levine
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley associate professor working on robot learning; co-author of the π0 robot foundation model paper
Stuart Russell
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Computational Precision Health, Emeritus; Michael H. Smith and Lotfi A. Zadeh Chair in Engineering
UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science; co-author of AI, A Modern Approach
Trevor Darrell
Faculty, CS and EE Divisions of EECS; founding co-director of BAIR
UC Berkeley professor who founded and co-leads BAIR; co-author of Caffe and R-CNN; President of Prompt AI
Andrew Waterman
PhD research in the EECS Department, advised by David A. Patterson and Krste Asanović (dissertation 2016) (earlier role)
Co-founder and Chief Engineer of SiFive; co-creator of the RISC-V instruction set architecture
Aravind Srinivas
PhD student in computer science (EECS), advised by Pieter Abbeel (earlier role)
Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity; first author of CURL and Bottleneck Transformers
Collin Burns
PhD student (co-advised by Jacob Steinhardt and Dan Klein) (earlier role)
AI researcher formerly at OpenAI and Anthropic; first author of weak-to-strong generalization research
Fabian Pedregosa
Postdoc (with Laurent El Ghaoui) (earlier role)
Research scientist at Google on the Gemini Core team; led scikit-learn's first public release in 2010
Hao Zhang
Postdoctoral researcher with Ion Stoica (2021–2023) (earlier role)
UC San Diego assistant professor who leads the Hao AI Lab; FastVideo, vLLM and Chatbot Arena co-author
Jonathan Ho
Listed with UC Berkeley as first author of DDPM (2020) (earlier role)
First author of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and of Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance
Shreya Shankar
PhD researcher in the Data Systems & Foundations Group, working with Aditya Parameswaran (2021–2026) (earlier role)
Computer science researcher who built DocETL at UC Berkeley; incoming Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon
Yangqing Jia
PhD student, EECS (created Caffe during the PhD) (earlier role)
Creator of Caffe, co-creator of ONNX and co-lead of PyTorch 1.0; founder and CEO of Intent Lab
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