Trevor Jackson Darrell is an American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

and professor at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. He is known for his research on

computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...

and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

and is one of the leading experts on topics such as

deep learning Deep learning (also known as deep structured learning) is part of a broader family of machine learning methods based on artificial neural networks with representation learning. Learning can be supervised, semi-supervised or unsupervised. De ...

and

explainable AI Explainable AI (XAI), or Interpretable AI, or Explainable Machine Learning (XML), is artificial intelligence (AI) in which humans can understand the decisions or predictions made by the AI. It contrasts with the "black box" concept in machine lear ...

. 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 land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, under

Alex Pentland Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland (born 1951) is an American computer scientist, the Toshiba Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, and serial entrepreneur. Education Pentland received his bachelor's degree from the University of M ...

* 1991, S.M.,

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

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

* 1984,

Phillips Academy ("Not for Self") la, Finis Origine Pendet ("The End Depends Upon the Beginning") Youth From Every Quarter Knowledge and Goodness , address = 180 Main Street , city = Andover , state = Ma ...

Career

When Darrell finished his PhD, 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 co ...

. 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 Residence. His former students include

Kristen Grauman Kristen Lorraine Grauman is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin on leave as a research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). She works on computer vision and machine learning. Early life and education Graum ...

Louis-Philippe Morency Louis-Philippe Morency is a French Canadian researcher interested in human communication and machine learning applied to a better understanding of human behavior. Biography Dr. Louis-Philippe Morency is currently assistant professor at the Lang ...

, and

Raquel Urtasun Raquel Urtasun is a professor at the University of Toronto. Urtasun uses artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, to make vehicles and other machines perceive the world more accurately and efficiently. Education Urtasun received her ...

(postdoc).

Family

Darrell is a grandson of American attorney

Norris Darrell Norris de Mouilpied Darrell, Jr. (1899–1989) was an American attorney and President of the American Law Institute from 1961 to 1976. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School, and was the son-in law of Judge Learned Hand. He cle ...

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Pennsylvania alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty American computer scientists {{US-compu-bio-stub