Session Abstract
In this presentation I will share anecdotes about some of my most successful students that I hope can highlight traits and decisions that enabled their success and can help the next generation of students make their decisions.
My students have co-founded over a dozen AI companies, including OpenAI (John Schulman), Perplexity (Aravind Srinivas), Skild (Deepak Pathak), Physical Intelligence (Chelsea Finn and Sergey Levine), Reflection (Misha Laskin), Evolutionary Scale (Roshan Rao), Ideogram (Jonathan Ho), Genmo (Ajay Jain), Gradescope (Arjun Singh), Covariant (Peter Chen and Rocky Duan). And one of my students became NASA Astronaut, spending 6 months at the International Space Station.
Speaker Bio
Pieter Abbeel is one of the world's leading researchers, educators and entrepreneurs in Artificial Intelligence. He is Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at UC Berkeley. Abbeel's pioneering AI contributions with his students include Diffusion Models, Large World Model, UniSim, TRPO, SAC, Ring Attention, MAML, Hindsight Experience Replay, Domain Randomization, Decision Transformer, LLM as Zero-Shot Planners for Robotics, RFM-1. Abbeel's awards and honors include the PECASE, NSF-CAREER, ONR-YIP, Darpa-YFA, TR35, IEEE Fellow, ACM Prize in Computing. Current research interests are in Generative AI, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics.