Trevor Jackson Darrell is an American expert in computers and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He works on research related to computer vision and machine learning. He is one of the top experts in areas such as deep learning and explainable AI.
Darrell's group at UC Berkeley created the Caffe deep-learning library.
Education
- 1996, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Media Arts & Sciences, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with advisor Alex Pentland
- 1991, Master of Science (S.M.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1988, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.), Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
- 1984, Phillips Academy
Career
After completing his PhD in 1996, Darrell began working at the Interval Research Corporation. In 1999, he moved to the MIT EECS department. In 2008, he joined the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently works as a professor in the CS Division. Darrell helped start the BAIR laboratory at UC Berkeley.
Some of 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 1966. His parents were Richard and Constance Darrell. He is the grandson of American attorney Norris Darrell. Darrell is married to Lisa Hagstrom. Lisa's father was Stig Hagstrom, a Swedish academic who worked at Stanford University.