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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★ACM Prize in Computing (2021) - prestigious award for contributions to robot learning
★Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
★MIT TR35 (Top Innovators Under 35)
★NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Program, DARPA Young Faculty Award
★Sloan Fellowship, IEEE awards
★Multiple best paper awards at ICML, NeurIPS, ICRA, ICLR
Notable Facts
→Professor at UC Berkeley and Director of Berkeley Robot Learning Lab since 2008
→Co-founder of Covariant (robotics AI unicorn valued at $600M+, acquired by Amazon 2024)
→Co-founder of Gradescope (acquired by TurnItIn for $100M+)
→First PhD student of Andrew Ng at Stanford University
→Amazon Scholar and head of Amazon's AGI large language model efforts as of December 2025
→Investment Partner at AIX Ventures
→Host of The Robot Brains podcast
→Students have co-founded 12+ AI companies including OpenAI, Perplexity, Physical Intelligence
→Pioneered apprenticeship learning and deep reinforcement learning for robotics
→Has 68K+ Twitter followers and 21K+ LinkedIn followers
→Over 100K students have taken his AI courses through edX
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