Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning

(Pieter Abbeel, UC Berkeley | Covariant) Pieter Abbeel is Professor at UC Berkeley, where he is Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and Co-Director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence (BAIR) Lab. Abbeel’s research strives to build ever more intelligent systems, with main emphasis on deep reinforcement learning, meta-learning. His lab also investigates how AI could advance other science and engineering disciplines. Abbeel has founded several companies, including Gradescope (AI to help instructors with grading homework and exams), Covariant (AI for robotic automation of warehouses and factories). Abbeel is also the host of The Robot Brains Podcast. Abbeel has received many awards and honors, including the PECASE, NSF-CAREER, ONR-YIP, Darpa-YFA, TR35. His work is frequently featured in the press, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Rolling Stone, Wired, and Tech Review.