Prof. Trevor Darrell
CS Division, University of California, Berkeley
Founding Co-Director, Berkeley
Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR), Berkeley
Deep Drive (BDD), and BAIR
Commons.
Teaching CS294-43: Large Scale Vision and Language Models
CS294-194: Research to Startup Please see Darrell Group Page Publications Please see [Google Scholar Page sorted by
date] Publications 1987-2007: See list
of MIT and Interval publications: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~trevor/Publications.htmProf. Darrell is on
the faculty of the CS and EE Divisions of the EECS Department at UC Berkeley.
He founded and co-leads Berkeley’s Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
(BAIR) lab, the Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) Industrial
Consortia, and the BAIR Commons program. He also was Faculty Director of the PATH
research center at UC Berkeley from 2015-2021, and led the Vision group at the
UC-affiliated International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley from 2008-2014. Prior to
that, Prof. Darrell was on the faculty of the MIT EECS department from
1999-2008, where he directed the Vision Interface Group. He was a member of the
research staff at Interval Research Corporation from 1996-1999, and received
the S.M., and PhD. degrees from MIT in 1991 and 1996, respectively. He obtained
the B.S.E. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988.
Darrell’s group
develops algorithms for large-scale perceptual learning, including object and
activity recognition and detection, for a variety of applications including
autonomous vehicles, media search, and multimodal interaction with robots and
mobile devices. His areas of interest include computer vision, machine
learning, natural language processing, and perception-based human computer
interfaces.
Prof. Darrell also co-founded and serves as President of
Prompt AI.
Darrell is an advisor to several other ventures, including SafelyYou,
Nexar, and SuperAnnotate.
Previously, Darrell advised Pinterest, Tyzx (acquired
by Intel), IQ Engines (acquired by Yahoo), Koozoo, BotSquare/Flutter (acquired
by Google), MetaMind (acquired by Salesforce), Trendage, Center Stage, KiwiBot, WaveOne, DeepScale, and Grabango. Darrell has also served as an expert witness for
patent litigation relating to computer vision.