Pieter Abbeel
UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Covariant, known for apprenticeship learning, deep reinforcement learning, and robot learning.
UC Berkeley · United States
- Rank
- #11
- Score
- 70.4
- Citations
- 106,733
- h-index
- 134
- Robotics papers 2023–2025
- 18
Source: OpenAlex author record, as of 2026-10-19. How we rank · Homepage
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About
Pieter Abbeel's research spans apprenticeship learning, deep reinforcement learning, and generative models; he co-authored Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models. He co-founded Covariant, which builds AI for warehouse picking robots.
Representative work
Selected highly cited papers, linked to their publisher or arXiv versions:
- Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (2020)
- Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks (2017)
- Trust Region Policy Optimization (2015)
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Who is Pieter Abbeel?
Pieter Abbeel is a UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Covariant, known for apprenticeship learning, deep reinforcement learning, and robot learning.