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Anca Dragan

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I am an Associate Professor in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. My goal is to enable robots to work with, around, and in support of people. I run the InterACT Lab, where we focus on algorithms for human-robot interaction -- algorithms that move beyond the robot's function in isolation, and generate robot behavior that coordinates well with people, and is aligned with what we actually want the robot to do. We work across different applications, from assistive arms, to quadrotors, to autonomous cars, and draw from optimal control, game theory, reinforcement learning, Bayesian inference, and cognitive science. I also helped found and serve on the steering committee for the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab, and am a co-PI of the Center for Human-Compatible AI. I've been honored by the Sloan Fellowship, MIT TR35, the Okawa award, an NSF CAREER award, and the PECASE award.

Anca Dragan Anca Dragan Contact CV Publications Teaching Research --> Home --> I am an Associate Professor in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley , currently on leave to head AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind. The goal of my research at UC Berkeley has been to enable AI agents (from robots to cars to LLMs to recommender systems) to work with, around, and in support of people. I run the InterACT Lab , where we focus on algorithms for human-AI and human-robot interaction. One of the core problems we have worked on since the lab's inception is AI alignment: getting AI agents to do what pe

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