Pieter Abbeel
UC Berkeley professor and Robot Learning Lab director; Amazon Scholar; former OpenAI research scientist
- Professor, Jim Gray Chair of Engineering; Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab; Co-Director of BAIR, University of California, Berkeley1
- Amazon Scholar (2024–), Amazon1
Pieter Abbeel is a Professor at UC Berkeley, where Abbeel holds the Jim Gray Chair of Engineering, directs the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and co-directs the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) lab; Abbeel has also been an Amazon Scholar since 2024. Abbeel's homepage lists earlier roles as a research scientist at OpenAI (2016–2017) and as co-founder, President and Chief Scientist of Covariant (2017–2024). Abbeel co-authored the Trust Region Policy Optimization paper and the Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models paper, and the homepage links Abbeel's CS294-158 Deep Unsupervised Learning course.132
Work
Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author with Jonathan Ho and Ajay Jain of the 2020 paper, which presents image synthesis with diffusion probabilistic models trained on a weighted variational bound.2
Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO) (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author with John Schulman, Sergey Levine, Philipp Moritz and Michael I. Jordan of the 2015 paper that describes the TRPO algorithm for optimizing neural-network policies.3
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