University of California, Berkeley

Sergey LevineAssociate Professor

Develops deep reinforcement learning algorithms for decision making and control in robots.

• Reinforcement learning

Pieter AbbeelProfessor

Develops deep reinforcement learning, imitation learning and unsupervised learning methods for robot learning.

• Manipulation & robot learning
• Reinforcement learning

Trevor DarrellProfessor in Residence

Develops visual recognition algorithms and multimodal vision-language models.

• Vision-language & multimodal
• Recognition, detection & segmentation
• Multimodal & grounded language

Ion StoicaProfessor

Builds cloud computing and AI systems, such as Ray, vLLM and Sky Computing.

• Distributed, cloud & edge systems

Masayoshi TomizukaDistinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Studies mechatronics, control and learning for autonomous driving and robot manipulation.

• Manipulation & robot learning
• Autonomous vehicles & drones
• Embodied & active vision

Dawn SongProfessor

Studies AI safety and security, agentic AI and decentralized technology.

• Trustworthy & safe ML

Jason LeeAssociate Professor

Studies the theory of deep learning, representation learning and reinforcement learning.

• Reinforcement learning
• Learning theory & optimization

Jitendra MalikProfessor

Studies computer vision and learning for embodied agents, including object recognition and robot locomotion.

• Embodied & active vision
• Recognition, detection & segmentation
• Legged locomotion & humanoids

Angjoo KanazawaAssociate Professor

Studies 3D perception of people and animals from images and video, including neural radiance fields.

• 3D vision & neural rendering
• Video understanding
• Robot perception & SLAM

Koushil SreenathProfessor of Mechanical Engineering

Studies dynamic legged locomotion and learning-based control for humanoid robots.

• Legged locomotion & humanoids
• Manipulation & robot learning

Gopala AnumanchipalliAssociate Professor

Works on speech processing and neural speech decoding, including assistive spoken language technologies and speech disorder diagnosis.

• Speech recognition & spoken language
• Affective & health speech
• Human-robot interaction & assistive robots

Anca DraganAssociate Professor

Works on AI alignment and human-robot interaction, learning from human feedback and modeling human decision-making.

• Human-robot interaction & assistive robots
• Reinforcement learning
• Trustworthy & safe ML

Matei ZahariaAssociate Professor

Builds data and AI systems, including Apache Spark, MLflow and ColBERT, and LLM programming frameworks like DSPy.

• Efficient training & inference

Alexei A. EfrosProfessor

Applies data-driven and self-supervised learning to computer vision and graphics using large unlabeled image collections.

• Generative & foundation models

Sewon MinAssistant Professor

Studies large language models, including retrieval-augmented and nonparametric language models.

• Large language models
• Knowledge, QA & retrieval

Giuseppe LoiannoAssociate Professor

Develops perception, control and learning methods for agile aerial robots.

• Autonomous vehicles & drones
• Planning, control & multi-robot systems

Somayeh SojoudiAssociate Professor in Residence

Studies optimization and robustness of AI systems, with applications to power systems.

• Trustworthy & safe ML
• Learning theory & optimization

Aditya ParameswaranAssociate Professor

Builds data science tools such as Modin, Lux and DocETL, including LLM-powered data processing.

• Data management & big data

Dan KleinProfessor

Studies statistical natural language processing, including parsing, grounded language and machine translation.

• Multilingual, translation & linguistics
• Multimodal & grounded language
• Learning theory & optimization

Alane SuhrAssistant Professor

Builds systems that use language to interact with people and learn language through interaction.