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, under Alex Pentland
 * 1991, S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * 1988, B.S.E., Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
 * 1984, Phillips Academy

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, where he is now a Professor in Residence.

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

Family
Darrell is a grandson of American attorney Norris Darrell.