ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Pieter Abbeel is a professor at UC Berkeley, research scientist at OpenAI, and co-founder of Gradescope. He works in machine learning and robotics -- his research focuses on making robots learn from people, (apprenticeship learning); how to make robots learn through their own trial and error (reinforcement learning); and how to speed up skill acquisition through learning-to-learn. His robots have learned advanced helicopter aerobatics, knot-tying, basic assembly, and laundry organizing. His group has pioneered deep reinforcement learning for robotics, including learning visuomotor skills and simulated locomotion. He has won various awards, including best paper awards at ICML, NIPS, and ICRA, the Sloan Fellowship, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, and the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program Award.