Pieter Abbeel is Professor and Director of the Robot Learning Lab at UC Berkeley [2008], Co-Director of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, Co-Founder of covariant.ai [2017], Co-Founder of Gradescope [2014], Advisor to OpenAI, Investment Partner at AIX Ventures, Advisor to many AI/Robotics start-ups. He works in machine learning and robotics. In particular 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 (meta-learning). His robots have learned advanced helicopter aerobatics, knot-tying, basic assembly, organizing laundry, locomotion, and vision-based robotic manipulation.