Pieter Abbeel

Professor of AI and Robotics at UC Berkeley, co-founder of Covariant and Gradescope

Pieter Abbeel is one of the world's leading researchers and entrepreneurs in artificial intelligence, serving as Director of UC Berkeley's Robot Learning Lab and co-director of the Berkeley AI Research Lab. He has co-founded multiple companies including Covariant (robotics foundation models) and Gradescope (AI grading system), and his students have founded over a dozen AI companies. His pioneering work spans deep reinforcement learning, robotics, and generative AI.