Trevor Darrell

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Trevor Darrell
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMIT
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor Alex Pentland
Website https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~trevor/

Trevor Jackson Darrell is an American computer scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. [1] [2] He is known for his research on computer vision and machine learning [3] [4] and is one of the leading experts on topics such as deep learning [5] and explainable AI. [6]

Contents

Darrell's group at UC Berkeley developed the Caffe deep-learning library. [7]

Education

Career

When Darrell finished his PhD, he joined the Interval Research Corporation. In 1999, he left the corporation for the MIT EECS department. In 2008, he left MIT for the University of California, Berkeley, [11] where he is now a Professor in Residence. [12]

His former students include Kristen Grauman, Louis-Philippe Morency, and Raquel Urtasun (postdoc). [13] [14]

Family

Darrell is a grandson of American attorney Norris Darrell. [15] [16] : 107–108 

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  7. ↑ Jia, Yangqing; Shelhamer, Evan; Donahue, Jeff; Karayev, Sergey; Long, Jonathan; Girshick, Ross; Guadarrama, Sergio; Darrell, Trevor (2014). "Caffe". Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Multimedia. MM '14. New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 675–678. arXiv: 1408.5093 . doi:10.1145/2647868.2654889. ISBN   9781450330633. S2CID   1799558.
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