Trevor Darrell

Trevor Jackson Darrell is an American computer scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1][2] He is known for his research on computer vision and machine learning^[3][4] and is one of the leading experts on topics such as deep learning^[5] and explainable AI.^[6]

Trevor Darrell
Nationality	American
Alma mater	MIT
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Alex Pentland
Website	https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~trevor/

Darrell's group at UC Berkeley developed the Caffe deep-learning library.^[7]

Education

• 1996, Ph.D., Media Arts & Sciences, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,^[1] under Alex Pentland
• 1991, S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology^[8]
• 1988, B.S.E., Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
• 1984, Phillips Academy^[9][10]

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,^[11] where he is now a Professor in the CS Division.^[12] 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).^[13][14]

Family

Darrell was born in New York City in 1996. Darrell's parents were Richard and Constance Darrell.^[15] Darrell is a grandson of American attorney Norris Darrell.^[16][17] Darrell is married to Lisa Hagstrom, whose father was the Swedish and Stanford academic Stig Hagstrom.