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Dan Klein (Instructor)
Dan Klein (PhD Stanford, MSt Oxford, BA Cornell) is an associate professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on natural language processing and using computational methods to automatically acquire models of human languages. Examples include large-scale systems for language understanding, information extraction, and machine translation, as well as computational linguistics projects, such as the reconstruction of ancient languages. One of his best-known results was to show that human grammars can be learned by statistical methods. He also led the development of the Overmind, a galaxy-dominating, tournament-winning agent for the game of Starcraft. Academic honors include a Marshall Fellowship, a Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper award for his work on grammar induction, and best paper awards at the ACL, NAACL, and EMNLP conferences. Professor Klein is the recipient of multiple teaching honors, including the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.
Pieter Abbeel (Instructor)
Pieter Abbeel (PhD Stanford, MS/BS KU Leuven) joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley in 2008. He regularly teaches CS188: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and CS287: Advanced Robotics. His research focuses on robot learning. Some results include machine learning algorithms which have enabled advanced helicopter aerobatics, including maneuvers such as tic-tocs, chaos and auto-rotation, which only exceptional human pilots can perform, and the first end-to-end completion of reliably picking up a crumpled laundry article and folding it. Academic honors include best paper awards at ICML and ICRA, the Sloan Fellowship, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (AFOSR-YIP) award, the Okawa Foundation award, the MIT TR35, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Early Career Award, and the Dick Volz award for best PhD thesis in robotics and automation.
Arjun Singh (Head Teaching Assistant)
Arjun Singh (BS UC Berkeley) is a PhD student at UC Berkeley and Berkeley's lead developer for the edX platform. He has been a teaching assistant for the on-campus CS188 offerings four times. As a member of the Robot Learning Lab, he has worked onautonomous helicopters, robotic laundry, and now works on computer vision for robotics and technology for education. He led the development of the Coursesharing online education platform, which was merged into the edX platform.
Peter Cottle (Teaching Assistant)
Peter Cottle (BS UC San Diego) is a PhD student at UC Berkeley. He was one of the star students in the Spring 2012 offering of CS188, and he is currently a teaching assistant for the on-campus CS188 offering. He conducts his PhD research in the CADML group, which solves manufacturing problems with computer science. He has applied some of the concepts from CS188 for his MS Thesis, a search algorithm that drains polygonal meshes.
Ketrina Yim (Course Illustrator)
Ketrina Yim (MS/BS UC Berkeley) is a programmer by day and an artist by night. As an undergraduate, she decorated the whiteboards of Soda Hall with computer-science-themed cartoons, which eventually led to CS Illustrated, a research project to apply visual metaphors to computational concepts. She is also a CS188 alumnus. Her artwork can be seen online here.
Zack Mayeda (Course Video Producer)
Zack Mayeda is an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, currently enrolled in the on-campus offering of CS188. He is studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and is interested in mobile application development and web design.
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