# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pieter-abbeel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:00:30.157Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pieter-abbeel"
name: "Pieter Abbeel"
slug: "pieter-abbeel"
description: "Pieter Abbeel is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and co-director of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the co-founder of Covariant, a venture-funded start-up that aims to teach robots new, complex skills, and co-founder of Gradescope, an online grading system that has been implemented in over 500 universities across the United States. He is best known for his cutting-edge research in robotics and machine learning, particularly in deep reinforcement learning. In 2021, he joined AIX Ventures as an Investment Partner. AIX Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in artificial intelligence startups."
tagline: "Machine learning researcher at UC Berkeley"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pieter_Abbeel_pictured_at_CovariantHQ_in_November_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.736398666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "pabbeel"
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    url:       "https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pabbeel/"
sources:
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    title: "Pieter Abbeel"
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    title: "Pieter Abbeel"
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    title: "Pieter Abbeel"
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    title: "彼得·阿比爾"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A2%D8%A8%D8%A8%D9%84"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Abbeel"
    title: "Pieter Abbeel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump