Director
Prof. Pieter Abbeel
Current
Post-docs
Stephen James |
Jongmin Lee |
Youngwoon Lee |
Xingyu Lin |
Aditi Raghunathan |
Aravind Rajeswaran(v) |
Ph.D. students
Undergraduate students
Ethan Guo (2023) |
Anthony Han (2024) |
Aryan Jain (2024) |
Xinran Liang (2022) |
John So (2023) |
Meiqi Sun (2024) |
Amber Xie (2023) |
On Leave
Xi (Peter) Chen (Founder/CEO Covariant)David Gealy (Founder Ambidextrous and Co-Creator of Berkeley Open Arms)
Zoe McCarthy
Jie Tang (Research Scientist at OpenAI)
Tianhao Zhang (Founder Covariant)
Former
Post-docs
Kimin Lee [Research Scientist at Google]Misha Laskin [Research Scientist at Deepmind]
Aditya Grover [Assistant Professor at UCLA]
Stas Tiomkin [Assistant Professor at SJSU]
Deepak Pathak [Assistant Professor at CMU]
Lerrel Pinto [Assistant Professor at NYU]
Stephen McKinley [Co-Founder Ambidextrous and Co-Creator of Berkeley Open Arms]
Aviv Tamar [Assistant Professor at Technion]
David Held [Assistant Professor at CMU]
Igor Mordatch [Research Scientist at OpenAI / Research Scientist at Google Brain]
Sergey Levine [Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley]
Sachin Patil [Otto / Uber / Founding Engineer Ike]
Dmitry Berenson [Assistant Professor at WPI / Assistant / Associate Professor at the University of Michigan]
Jia Pan [Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong]
Jur van den Berg [Assistant Professor at University of Utah / Google[x] Self-driving Car Team / Otto / Uber / Co-Founder Ike]
Lorenzo Riano [now Senior Research Engineer at Bosch North America]
Ph.D. students
Kourosh Hakhamaneshi (May 2022)
Thesis: Pre-training Agents for Design Optimization and Control
Next: Anyscale
Xue Bin (Jason) Peng (December 2021)
Thesis: Acquiring Motor Skills Through Motion Imitation and Reinforcement Learning
Next:
Roshan Rao
Thesis: Training, Evaluating, and Understanding Evolutionary Models for Protein Sequences
Next: Facebook AI Research
Aravind Srinivas (August 2021)
Thesis: Representation Learning for Perception and Control
Next: Research Scientist at OpenAI
Abhishek Gupta (August 2021)
Thesis: How to Train Your Robot: Techniques for Enabling Robotic Learning in the Real World
Next: Post-doc at MIT
Next-next: Assistant Professor at University of Washington
Thanard Kurutach (May 2021)
Thesis: Learning, Planning, and Acting with Models
Next: Research Scientist at Cruise
Joshua Achiam (May 2021)
Thesis: Exploration and Safety in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Next: Research Scientist at OpenAI
Gregory Kahn (December 2020)
Thesis: Mobile Robot Learning
Next: stealth start-up
Ignasi Clavera (August 2020)
Thesis: Overcoming Model-Bias in Reinforcement Learning
Next: Research Scientist at Covariant
Coline Devin (August 2020)
Thesis: Compositionality and Modularity for Robot Learning
Next: Research Scientist at Deepmind
Dylan Hadfield-Menell (August 2020)
Thesis: The Principal-Agent Alignment Problem in Artificial Intelligence
Next: Assistant Professor at MIT
Rohin Shah (August 2020)
Thesis: Extracting and Using Preference Information from the State of the World
Next: Research Scientist at Deepmind
Adam Stooke (August 2020)
Thesis: Advancements in Deep Reinforcement Learning: Algorithms and Implementations
Next: Research Scientist at Deepmind
Carlos Florensa Campo (May 2020)
Thesis: What Supervision Scales? Practical Learning Through Interaction
Next: Research Scientist at Covariant.AI
Jonathan Ho (May 2020)
Thesis: Deep Generative Models: Imitation Learning, Image Synthesis, and Compression
Next: Research Scientist at Google Brain (Amsterdam)
Alex Lee (May 2019)
Thesis: Visual Dynamics Models for Robotic Planning and Control
Next: Research Scientist at Deepmind
Sandy Huang (May 2019)
Thesis: Optimizing for Robot Transparency
Next: Research Scientist at Deepmind
Haoran Tang (May 2019)
Thesis: Towards Informed Exploration for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Next: Research Scientist at Covariant.AI
Josh Tobin (May 2019)
Thesis: Real-World Robotics Perception and Control Using Synthetic Data
Next: Research Scientist at OpenAI
Tuomas Haarnoja (December 2018)
Thesis: Acquiring Diverse Robot Skills via Maximum Entropy Deep Reinforcement Learning
Next: Research Scientist at Deepmind
Chelsea Finn (August 2018)
Thesis: Learning to Learn with Gradients
Next: Research Scientist at Google Brain | Post-doc at Berkeley
Next next: Assistant Professor at Stanford University
Bradly Stadie (August 2018)
Thesis: Learning as a Sampling Problem
Next: Post-doc at the University of Toronto
Yan (Rocky) Duan (December 2017)
Thesis: Meta-Learning for Control
Next: Founder / CTO Covariant.AI
John Schulman (December 2016)
Thesis: Optimizing Expectations: From Deep Reinforcement Learning to Stochastic Computation Graphs
Next: Founder / Research Scientist OpenAI
Karthik Narayan (December 2016)
Thesis: Scalable High-Quality 3D Scanning (Thesis talk: pdf, pptx)
Next: Algorithm Developer (aka Quantitative Analyst) at Hudson River Trading LLC
Arjun Singh (August 2016)
Thesis: Benchmarks for Cloud Robotics
Next: Founder / CEO Gradescope
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard (December 2015)
Thesis: Machine Learning and Optimization for Neural Circuit Reconstruction
Next: Google
Tim Hunter (primary advisor: Alex Bayen) (August 2014)
Thesis: Large-Scale, Low-Latency State Estimation Of Cyber-Physical Systems With An Application To Traffic Estimation
Next: DataBricks
Teodor Moldovan (May 2014)
Thesis: Safety, Risk Awareness and Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
Next: Voleon
Woody Hoburg (August 2013)
Thesis: Aircraft Design Optimization as a Geometric Program
Next: One year at Boeing and then Assistant Professor at MIT starting Fall 2014
Aude Hofleitner (primary advisor: Alex Bayen) (May 2013)
Thesis: A Hybrid Approach of Physical Laws and Data-Driven Modeling for Estimation: the Example of Queuing Networks
Next: Facebook
Visitors and Volunteers
Wenling ShangAmy Zhang
Friso Kingma
Jonas Ruthfuss
Ge Yang
Clemens Eppner
Rein Houthooft
Rosen Kralev
Giulia Vezzani
Masters students
Eddie Groshev (UC Berkeley, CS, 2016)Christopher Lin (UC Berkeley, CS, 2016)
Weiqiao Han (UC Berkeley, EECS, 2016)
Ali Punjani (UC Berkeley, CS, 2014)
Mallory Tayson-Frederick (UC Berkeley, M.Eng. 2012)
Jie Tang (UC Berkeley, CS, 2011)
Kevin Sartori (visiting scholar from ETHZ, Spring 2010)
Pranav Shah (UC Berkeley, Mech. E., 2010)
Martin Soerensen (visiting scholar from Aalborg University, Fall 2008, Spring 2009)
Anders Friis (visiting scholar from Aalborg University, Fall 2009)
Undergraduate students
| Student | Class | After Graduation | NSF | NDSEG | Hertz | CRA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catherine Cang | 2022 | |||||
| Philippe Hansen-Estruch | 2022 | |||||
| Wenlong Huang | 2022 | Stanford, PhD in CS | ||||
| Xinran Liang | 2022 | Princeton, PhD in CS | ||||
| Sean O'Brien | 2022 | UCSD, PhD in CS | ||||
| Aaron Putterman | 2022 | Harvard, PhD in CS | ||||
| Anika Ramachandran | 2022 | |||||
| Katherine Shu | 2022 | |||||
| Jeffrey Tao | 2022 | |||||
| Ashwin Vangipuram | 2022 | Stanford, MS in CS | ||||
| Xiaofei Wang | 2022 | |||||
| Yanlai Yang | 2022 | NYU, PhD in CS | ||||
| Albert Zhan | 2022 | MILA, PhD in ML | ||||
| Mandi Zhao | 2022 | Columbia, PhD in CS | ||||
| Kevin Lu | 2021 | AI Resident, FAIR; Stanford, PhD in CS | X | |||
| Lili Chen | 2021 | Cohere; CMU, PhD in CS | ||||
| Joey Hejna | 2021 | Stanford, PhD in CS | X | Honorable Mention | ||
| Boyuan Chen | 2021 | MIT, PhD in CS | ||||
| Violet Fu | 2021 | Michigan, PhD in CS | ||||
| Shivani Kishnani | 2021 | stealth start-up | ||||
| Carl Qi | 2021 | CMU, MS in ML | ||||
| Boren Tsai | 2021 | C3AI, GaTech MS | ||||
| Ruihan (Philip) Zhao | 2020 | UT Austin, PhD in CS | ||||
| Julia Peng | 2020 | |||||
| Sarah Young | 2020 | CMU, PhD in Robotics | ||||
| Fenglu Hong | 2020 | Stanford, MS in CS | ||||
| Greg Balke | 2020 | Symbio | ||||
| Tony Sinclair | 2020 | Apple | ||||
| Yiming Ding | 2020 | Stanford, PhD in CS | Alexander Li | 2020 | CMU, PhD in CS | X | Kara Liu | 2020 | Stanford, PhD in CS | Evan Lohn | 2020 | CMU, PhD in CS | Xingyu (Patrick) Lu | 2020 | Bloomberg | Michael McDonald | 2019 | Xinyi Ren | 2020 | Laura Smith | 2020 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | X | Finalist | Yilin Wu | 2020 | Stanford, MS in CS | Wilson Yan | 2020 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | Yunzhi Zhang | 2020 | Covariant.AI | Stanford, PhD in CS | Honorable Mention | Menglong Guo | 2019 | Covariant.AI | MIT, PhD in ME |
| Philipp Wu | 2019 | Berkeley, PhD in CS | Covariant.AI | X | |||
| Annie Xie | 2019 | Stanford, PhD in CS | X | |||
| Angelina Wang | 2019 | Princeton, PhD in CS | X | X | ||
| Dennis Lee | 2019 | Google Brain AI Residency | ||||
| Katie Luo | 2019 | Cornell, PhD in CS | ||||
| Keiran Paster | 2019 | Toronto, PhD in CS | ||||
| Christine Tung | 2019 | |||||
| Daniel Ho | 2019 | |||||
| Samantha Whathugala | 2019 | |||||
| Brent Yi | 2019 | Stanford, Masters in CS | X | X | ||
| Xiaoyang (Andrew) Bai | EECS, 2018 | UIUC, PhD in CS | ||||
| Dian Chen | EECS, 2018 | UT Austin, PhD in CS | ||||
| Melissa Chien | Applied Math, 2018 | |||||
| Max Goldstein | Math/CS, 2018 (Princeton) | |||||
| Owen Jow | EECS, 2018 | UCSD, MS in CS | ||||
| Mitch Lin | EECS, 2018 | Meraki, SW Eng | ||||
| YuXuan (Andrew) Liu | EECS, 2018 | Berkeley, PhD in CS | Covariant.AI | X | |||
| Nikhil Mishra | EECS, 2018 | Berkeley, PhD in CS | Covariant.AI | X | |||
| Mostafa Rohaninejad | EECS, 2018 | Berkeley, PhD in CS | Covariant.AI | ||||
| Fred Shentu | Math,Stat,CS, 2018 | Berkeley, PhD in CS | Covariant.AI | ||||
| Garrett Thomas | EECS, 2018 | Stanford, PhD in CS | Finalist | |||
| Rachel Thomasson | ME, 2018 | Stanford, PhD in ME | X | |||
| Adam Villaflor | EECS, 2018 | CMU, PhD in Robotics | ||||
| William Wang | EECS, 2018 | MIT, PhD in CS | ||||
| Tianhe (Kevin) Yu | Math/CS/Stat, 2018 | Stanford, PhD in CS | ||||
| Michael Zhang | EECS 2018 | Toronto, PhD in CS | X | |||
| Zhining (Anna) Zhu | CS/Stat 2018 | Stanford, MS in CS | ||||
| Allan Zhao | EECS 2017 (BS) 2018 (MS) | MIT, PhD in CS | ||||
| Anurag Ajay | EECS 2017 | MIT, PhD in CS | ||||
| Xinyang (Young) Geng | EECS 2017 | G-Brain Resident, UC Berkeley PhD in CS | Honorable Mention | |||
| Ashvin Nair | EECS 2017 | UC Berkeley PhD in CS | Finalist | |||
| Xi (Peter) Chen | EECS 2014 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | ||||
| Rohan Chitnis | EECS 2016 | MIT, PhD in CS | X | X | Finalist | Runner-Up |
| Eddie Groshev | EECS 2015 | Osaro | ||||
| Weiqiao Han | Math/CS/Stat 2015 | MIT, PhD in CS | ||||
| Alex Irpan | EECS 2016 | Google Brain Residency | ||||
| Christopher Lin | EECS 2015 | drive.ai | ||||
| Nopphon Siranart | CS/Stat/Econ 2016 | Stanford, PhD in ICME | ||||
| Marvin Zhang | EECS 2016 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | X | X | Honorable Mention | |
| Tianhao Zhang | EECS 2016 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | ||||
| Yan (Rocky) Duan | Math/CS/Stat 2014 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | ||||
| Justin Fu | EECS, 2015 | Stanford, MS in CS; UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | ||||
| Robbie Gleichman | EECS, 2014 | Carbon Robotics | ||||
| Abhishek Gupta | EECS, 2015 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | X | X | ||
| Gregory Kahn | EECS, 2015 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | X | X | ||
| Nikita Kitaev | EECS, 2015 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | X | |||
| Henry Lu | EECS, 2015 | Prism Skylabs | ||||
| George Mulcaire | EECS, 2015 | U. of Washington, PhD in CS | ||||
| James Sha | EECS, 2015 | X | ||||
| Peter Sujan | STAT, 2015 | UC Berkeley, MS in STAT | ||||
| Nolan Wagener | EECS, 2015 | Georgia Tech, PhD in CS | X | |||
| Alvin Wong | EECS, 2015 | USC Games Program, MS | ||||
| Chris Xie | EECS, 2015 | U. of Washington, PhD in CS | X | |||
| Tudor Achim | visitor, 2014 | Stanford, PhD in CS | ||||
| Pedro Amaral | EECS, 2014 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | ||||
| Samaneh Azadi | visitor, 2014 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | ||||
| Henry Bradlow | EECS, 2014 | Founder, CTO Lily | ||||
| Eugene Fang | EECS, 2014 | CMU, MS, PhD in CS | X | |||
| Jonathan Ho | EECS, 2014 | Stanford, PhD in CS | X | |||
| Ankush Gupta | EECS, 2014 | Oxford, PhD in CS | ||||
| Sibi Venkatesan | EECS, 2014 | CMU, PhD in Robotics Inst. | ||||
| James Huang | EECS, 2013 | Shopkick | ||||
| Alex Lee | EECS, 2013 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | X | |||
| Cameron Lee | EECS, 2013 | |||||
| Justin Uang | EECS, 2013 | Palantir Technologies | ||||
| Ziang Xie | EECS, 2013 | Stanford, PhD in CS | X | |||
| Ibrahim Awwal | EECS, 2012 | UCSD, PhD in CS | ||||
| Warren He | EECS, 2012 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | ||||
| Humphrey Hu | MechE, 2012 | CMU, PhD in Robotics Inst. | X | |||
| Karthik Lakshmanan | EECS, 2012 | CMU, PhD in Robotics Inst. | ||||
| Apoorva Sachdev | EECS, 2012 | IBM, Singapore | ||||
| Sameep Tandon | EECS, 2012 | Stanford, PhD in CS | Honorable Mention | |||
| John Wang | EECS, 2011 | Michigan, PhD in CS | ||||
| Marco Cusumano-Towner | EECS, 2011 | Stanford, MS in CS; MIT, PhD in CS | X | X | ||
| Stephen Miller | EECS, 2011 | Stanford, PhD in CS | X | Fellow | Finalist | |
| Ping Chuan (Ted) Wang | EECS, 2011 | National Instruments | ||||
| Shervin Javdani | EECS, 2010 | CMU, PhD in Robotics Inst. | X | |||
| Svet Kolev | EECS, 2010 | U. of Washington, PhD in CS | ||||
| Arjun Singh | EECS, 2010 | UC Berkeley, PhD in CS | X | |||
| Jinna Lei | Math, CS, 2010 | U. of Washington, PhD in CS | X | |||
| Xiao-Yu Fu | EECS, 2009 | U. of Michigan, PhD in Mech.E. | X | |||
| Nimbus Goehausen | EECS, 2009 | www.fwix.com | ||||
| Andrew Wan | EECS, 2009 | www.fwix.com |