Trevor Darrell

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

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, 1988, B.S.E., Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania 1984, Phillips Academy

Career When Darrell finished his PhD in 1996, 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, where he is now a professor in the CS Division. Darrell co-founded the BAIR laboratory at UC Berkeley.

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. Darrell's parents were Richard and Constance Darrell. Darrell is a grandson of American attorney Norris Darrell. Darrell is married to Lisa Hagstrom, whose father was the Swedish and Stanford academic Stig Hagstrom.