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Pieter Abbeel is a professor at UC Berkeley, Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and co-director of the Berkeley AI Research Lab. He is also the co-founder of covariant.ai, a startup that aims to teach robots new complex skills. He is best known for his cutting-edge research in deep reinforcement learning and robotics.

Trevor Darrell is a professor at UC Berkeley and founding co-director of the Berkeley AI Research Lab and Berkeley Deep Drive. He is known for his research on computer vision and is one of the leading experts in modern computer vision and deep learning. Darrell’s group at UC Berkeley developed the Caffe deep learning library.

Hovhannes is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and scholar. Throughout his professional career, he has founded more than six companies. His latest endeavor is PicsArt—a social image editing application. As the co-founder and CEO of PicsArt, he took the company to the next level by turning the product into one of the most downloaded apps, with over 800 million total downloads.

Ming-Ming Cheng is a professor with the College of Computer Science, Nankai University, leading the Media Computing Lab. He received his Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 2012 and then worked with Prof. Philip Torr in Oxford for 2 years. His research interests include computer vision and computer graphics. He has published over 60 papers in leading journals and conferences, such as IEEE TPAMI, ACM TOG, IEEE CVPR, etc. Many of his algorithms have become quite popular in the community, receiving more than 19,000 paper citations. He received several research awards including ACM China Rising Star Award, the IBM Global SUR award, etc. He is a senior member of the IEEE and on the editorial boards of the IEEE TIP.

Gary Bradski, PhD is a leading entrepreneur and researcher in computer vision and machine learning. He founded and is President of the most popular computer vision library in the world: OpenCV http://opencv.org/. He organized the computer vision team for Stanley, the autonomous car that won the $2M DARPA Grand Challenge (now in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum) which in turn kicked off the autonomous driving industry. Gary served as a visiting Professor at Stanford University Computer Science department for seven years. He helped develop one of the first Video Search startups, VideoSurf, that sold to Microsoft in 2011. He founded Industrial Perception Inc. which sold to Google in 2013 and he created the Silicon Valley office of Magic Leap. He co-founded Arraiy which sold to Matterport in 2019. He serves on the boards and advisory boards of over a dozen startups and is now Founder and Chief Scientist of OpenCV.ai, an AI product development company