Pieter Abbeel

VP & Distinguished Scientist (joined Aug 2024) — Amazon · Professor, EECS; BAIR Co-Director; also Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics — UC Berkeley

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BS/MS from KU Leuven; PhD from Stanford (2008, Andrew Ng’s first PhD student). Professor of AI and Robotics at UC Berkeley, founded Berkeley Robot Learning Lab. Co-founded Gradescope (acq. Turnitin 2018) and Covariant (robotics AI). Joined Amazon August 2024; heads LLM efforts within AGI org (December 2025). ACM Prize in Computing (2021). His students co-founded OpenAI (John Schulman), Perplexity, Physical Intelligence, and others.

Affiliations

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Amazon — VP & Distinguished Scientist (joined Aug 2024)
Formerly: UC Berkeley (Professor); Covariant (Co-founder); PhD Stanford (Andrew Ng)
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UC Berkeley — Professor, EECS; BAIR Co-Director; also Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics

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2026-07-28 Amazon Winds Down Nova Model Line; Frontier Model Research Consolidated Under Pieter Abbeel, AGI Lab SF Closed TNW — Amazon