Trevor Jackson Darrell is an American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

and professor at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. He is known for his research on

computer vision Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...

and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

and is one of the leading experts on topics such as

deep learning Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that focuses on utilizing multilayered neural networks to perform tasks such as classification, regression, and representation learning. The field takes inspiration from biological neuroscience a ...

and

explainable AI Explainable AI (XAI), often overlapping with interpretable AI, or explainable machine learning (XML), is a field of research within artificial intelligence (AI) that explores methods that provide humans with the ability of ''intellectual oversig ...

. Darrell's group at UC Berkeley developed the Caffe deep-learning library.

Education

* 1996, Ph.D., Media Arts & Sciences, Media Lab,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

, under

Alex Pentland Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland (born 1951) is an American computer scientist, HAI Fellow at Stanford, Toshiba Professor at MIT, and serial entrepreneur. Education Pentland received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and obtaine ...

* 1991, S.M.,

* 1988, B.S.E., Computer Science,

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

* 1984,

Phillips Academy Phillips Academy (also known as PA, Phillips Academy Andover, or simply Andover) is a Private school, private, Mixed-sex education, co-educational college-preparatory school for Boarding school, boarding and Day school, day students located in ...

Career

When Darrell finished his PhD in 1996, he joined the

Interval Research Corporation Interval Research Corporation was founded in 1992 by Paul Allen and David Liddle. It was a Palo Alto laboratory and technology incubator focusing on consumer product applications and services with a focus on the Internet. A 1997 version of the ...

. In 1999, he left the corporation for the MIT EECS department. In 2008, he left MIT for the

, where he is now a Professor in the CS Division. Darrell co-founded the BAIR laboratory at UC Berkeley. His former students include Kristen Grauman, Louis-Philippe Morency, Kate Saenko, Yangqing Jia, Tete Xiao, and Raquel Urtasun (postdoc).

Family

Darrell was born in New York City in 1996. Darrell's parents were Richard and Constance Darrell. Darrell is a grandson of American attorney Norris Darrell. Darrell is married to Lisa Hagstrom, whose father was the Swedish and Stanford academic Stig Hagstrom.

References

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