People
People from UC Berkeley
63 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document study or an academic role at University of California, Berkeley. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only. See also University of California, Berkeley in the catalog.
Adam Gleave
Co-founder and CEO (since January 2022), FAR.AI
Co-founder and CEO of FAR.AI; researcher on adversarial robustness and reward learning
Alex Smola
CEO and Co-Founder, Boson AI
Co-founder and CEO of Boson AI; co-author of Dive into Deep Learning; former VP at AWS
Alexei A. Efros
Howard Friesen Professor, EECS Department; member of BAIR, University of California, Berkeley
Howard Friesen Professor in UC Berkeley EECS and member of BAIR; co-author of pix2pix and CycleGAN
Ali Ghodsi
CEO and Co-Founder, Databricks
Co-founder and CEO of Databricks; one of the creators of Apache Spark and co-author of the Mesos paper
Anca Dragan
Heads AI Safety and Alignment (on leave from UC Berkeley), Google DeepMind
Heads AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind; UC Berkeley associate professor who runs the InterACT Lab
Andrew Ng
Founder, DeepLearning.AI
Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Stanford adjunct professor, and founding lead of the Google Brain team
Andrew Waterman
Co-founder and Chief Engineer, SiFive
Co-founder and Chief Engineer of SiFive; co-creator of the RISC-V instruction set architecture
Andy Konwinski
Co-founder, MoTS, Board; Laude Ventures Co-founder and GP, Laude Institute and Laude Ventures
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, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley EECS associate professor whose lab builds the open-source nerfstudio and gsplat libraries
Aravind Srinivas
Cofounder and CEO, Perplexity
Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity; first author of CURL and Bottleneck Transformers
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji
Co-founder & SVP of Field Engineering, Databricks
Co-founder and SVP of Field Engineering at Databricks
Ben Mildenhall
Co-founder, working on graphics and 3D computer vision, World Labs
Co-founder of World Labs and first author of the NeRF paper on neural radiance fields for view synthesis
Bichen Wu
Listed with GenAI, Meta as first author of the Fairy paper (2023); FBNet work done while interning at Facebook, Meta
Computer vision researcher; first author of Meta's Fairy video-editing paper and of FBNet
Bryan Catanzaro
VP, Applied Deep Learning Research, NVIDIA
VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA; co-author of the Megatron-LM and cuDNN papers
Chelsea Finn
Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Stanford assistant professor who runs the IRIS lab; co-founder of Physical Intelligence and co-author of π0
Collin Burns
Worked at OpenAI, OpenAI
AI researcher formerly at OpenAI and Anthropic; first author of weak-to-strong generalization research
Craig Federighi
Senior Vice President, Software Engineering, Apple
Apple senior vice president of Software Engineering, also responsible for Apple's core AI efforts
Dan Hendrycks
Executive & Research Director, Center for AI Safety (CAIS)
Executive and Research Director of the Center for AI Safety; co-author of MMLU and Humanity's Last Exam
Dan Jurafsky
Reynolds Professor in Humanities; Professor of Linguistics; Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Stanford professor of linguistics and computer science; co-author of Speech and Language Processing
David Patterson
Google Fellow, Google
Google Fellow and UC Berkeley professor emeritus; co-author of Google TPU papers and MLPerf Training
Deepak Pathak
Co-founder and CEO, Skild AI
Co-founder and CEO of Skild AI; Raj Reddy Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Emily M. Bender
Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director, Computational Linguistics Laboratory, University of Washington
University of Washington linguistics professor; developer of the LinGO Grammar Matrix and data statements
Fabian Pedregosa
Research scientist, Gemini Core team, Google
Research scientist at Google on the Gemini Core team; led scikit-learn's first public release in 2010
Hao Zhang
Assistant Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and Computer Science and Engineering; leads the Hao AI Lab, University of California San Diego
UC San Diego assistant professor who leads the Hao AI Lab; FastVideo, vLLM and Chatbot Arena co-author
Ion Stoica
Professor of Computer Science, Xu Bao Chancellor Chair; Director of the Sky Computing Lab, University of California, Berkeley
Co-author of the Ray and vLLM papers; UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale
Jacob Andreas
Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EECS and CSAIL)
MIT associate professor in EECS and CSAIL studying language learning and how neural models represent meaning
Jacob Steinhardt
Associate Professor of Statistics and EECS, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley associate professor of Statistics and EECS; founder and CEO of the nonprofit lab Transluce
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; first author of the 2015 paper that introduced diffusion models
Jitendra Malik
Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS, University of California, Berkeley
Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley; VP and Distinguished Scientist at Amazon's FAR lab
John Duchi
Associate Professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Stanford associate professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering; first author of the Adagrad paper
John Schulman
Cofounder and chief scientist, Thinking Machines Lab
Co-founder and chief scientist of Thinking Machines Lab; OpenAI co-founder and first author of PPO and TRPO
Jonathan Ho
Listed with Google Research, Brain Team on Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance and as co-first author of Imagen Video (2022), Google Research, Brain Team
First author of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and of Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance
Joseph E. Gonzalez
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley professor whose group built Gorilla and the Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard
Jun-Yan Zhu
Michael B. Donohue Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University (School of Computer Science)
CMU associate professor and Nunchux AI co-founder; first author of CycleGAN and co-author of pix2pix
Justin Fu
Research scientist, Waymo Research (since August 2021), Waymo
Research scientist at Waymo Research and lead developer of the open-source Waymax driving simulator
Ken Goldberg
William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair of Engineering; Distinguished Professor of IEOR and EECS and Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor working on robot grasping and automation; senior author of Dex-Net 2.0
Krste Asanović
Co-founder and Chief Architect, SiFive
Co-founder and Chief Architect of SiFive; RISC-V co-creator and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus
Matei Zaharia
Associate Professor of EECS, University of California, Berkeley
Started Apache Spark, helped develop MLflow and co-authored DSPy; UC Berkeley professor and Databricks CTO
Michael I. Jordan
Directeur de Recherche, Inria and École Normale Supérieure
Co-author of the Ray and latent Dirichlet allocation papers; UC Berkeley Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Mike Isaac
Technology reporter, The New York Times
Reports on technology for The New York Times; author of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Nathan Lambert
Co-founder and Executive Director, Trillium Labs
Co-founder of Trillium Labs; first author of the Tülu 3 report and former post-training lead at Ai2
Nicholas Carlini
Research Scientist, Anthropic
Research scientist at Anthropic working on machine learning security; formerly at Google Brain and DeepMind
Omar Khattab
Assistant Professor (leads the MIT OASYS lab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EECS and CSAIL)
First author of DSPy and ColBERT; Assistant Professor at MIT EECS, where Khattab leads the OASYS lab
Oriol Vinyals
Vice President, Google DeepMind, Google DeepMind
Vice President at Google DeepMind; co-author of sequence-to-sequence learning and the TensorFlow white paper
Owain Evans
Director, Truthful AI
Director of the nonprofit Truthful AI and affiliate researcher at CHAI, UC Berkeley; TruthfulQA co-author
Patrick Wendell
Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Databricks
Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Databricks, heading its AI efforts; Apache Spark committer
Paul Christiano
Executive Director, Alignment Research Center
Executive director of the Alignment Research Center and technical advisor at NIST's CAISI
Percy Liang
Professor of Computer Science (and courtesy in Statistics); Director, Center for Research on Foundation Models, Stanford University
Stanford professor and director of CRFM; creator of Marin, first author of HELM, Together AI founder
Phillip Isola
Associate Professor in EECS; member of CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (EECS and CSAIL)
MIT associate professor in EECS; first author of pix2pix and co-author of Foundations of Computer Vision
Pieter Abbeel
Professor, Jim Gray Chair of Engineering; Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab; Co-Director of BAIR, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley professor and Robot Learning Lab director; Amazon Scholar; former OpenAI research scientist
Reynold Xin
Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Databricks
Co-founder and Chief Architect of Databricks; Apache Spark committer and first author of Shark and GraphX
Richard Zhang
Principal Scientist, Adobe Research
Principal Scientist at Adobe Research; first author of the LPIPS perceptual metric and image colorization work
Rohan Taori
Researcher on the pretraining team, Anthropic
Pretraining researcher at Anthropic; co-author of Stanford Alpaca, AlpacaFarm and AlpacaEval
Ross Girshick
Research scientist, FAIR (2015–2023), Meta (Facebook AI Research)
First author of R-CNN and Detectron; co-author of Segment Anything; formerly at FAIR, Microsoft and Ai2
Sanja Fidler
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
University of Toronto associate professor, Vector Institute co-founder and NVIDIA VP of AI Research
Sanjay Mehrotra
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (joined 2017), Micron Technology
Chairman and CEO of Micron Technology; SanDisk co-founder with foundational flash memory patents
Sergey Levine
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley associate professor working on robot learning; co-author of the π0 robot foundation model paper
Shreya Shankar
Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department (from July 2026); Assistant Professor from July 2027, Carnegie Mellon University
Computer science researcher who built DocETL at UC Berkeley; incoming Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon
Stuart Russell
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Computational Precision Health, Emeritus; Michael H. Smith and Lotfi A. Zadeh Chair in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
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, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley professor who founded and co-leads BAIR; co-author of Caffe and R-CNN; President of Prompt AI
Woosuk Kwon
Co-founder and CTO, Inferact
Co-creator and lead maintainer of vLLM; co-founder and CTO of Inferact
Yangqing Jia
Founder and CEO, Intent Lab
Creator of Caffe, co-creator of ONNX and co-lead of PyTorch 1.0; founder and CEO of Intent Lab
Zhuohan Li
AI Research Scientist, Meta
Co-creator and lead maintainer of vLLM; AI Research Scientist at Meta focusing on inference
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