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Trevor Darrell

UC Berkeley professor who founded and co-leads BAIR; co-author of Caffe and R-CNN; President of Prompt AI

Trevor Darrell is on the faculty of the CS and EE Divisions of the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, where Darrell founded and co-leads the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) lab, the Berkeley DeepDrive industrial consortia, and the BAIR Commons program. Darrell's group develops algorithms for large-scale perceptual learning, including object and activity recognition and detection. Darrell was previously on the MIT EECS faculty (1999–2008), directing the Vision Interface Group, and co-founded and serves as President of Prompt AI. Darrell is a co-author of the 2014 Caffe paper — Caffe is a BSD-licensed framework developed by BAIR and the Berkeley Vision and Learning Center with community contributors — and of the R-CNN and ConvNeXt papers.12345

Work

  • Caffe (external site: github.com)Open-source code

    Co-author of "Caffe: Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Embedding" (2014); the BSD-licensed Caffe repository says the framework is developed by BAIR/BVLC and community contributors.23

  • R-CNN (external site: arxiv.org)Published research

    Co-author, with Ross Girshick, Jeff Donahue, and Jitendra Malik, of "Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation" (2013), the R-CNN paper.4

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    BVLC/caffe README (developers and BSD license) (external site: github.com)

    BVLC (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    A ConvNet for the 2020s (arXiv 2201.03545) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Jan 10, 2022 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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