Course Staff

Anca Dragan

Wilson Yan

• Hi everybody! I’m a fourth year CS and Applied Math major from the Bay Area. Aside from doing ML research, I enjoy reading, hiking, playing video games (Smash), and eating good food. Feel free to chat with me anytime, and I look forward to meeting you all!

Alan Rosenthal

• Hi! I’m a fourth year CS and math major. Outside of class, I love cooking, playing and listening to classical music, and badminton!

Albert Yu

• My 9-year old brother wrote my bio for me: “I only let Jimmy eat peanuts I make. I live on Peanut Ave. I do peanut gardening. My friend is Jimmy. My PhD is farming.”

Andreea Bobu

• Hi! I’m a third year PhD student working with Anca Dragan. My research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, robotics, and human-robot interaction, with a focus on robot learning with uncertainty. In my free time, I play the guitar, do street photography, and do various outdoorsy activities.

Andy Yan

• Hi, I’m a 5th year masters student in CS. My research focuses on multi-task learning and robotics. Outside of school I love listening to all sorts of music and eating / spending time with friends. Hope you guys enjoy the semester :).

Carl Qi

• Hello friends! I’m a 3rd-year undergrad student majoring in cs and math. In my free time, I like to play the guitar, go workout, and watch Dude Perfect. Looking forward to a fun semester!

Cathy Li

• Hey! I’m a junior focusing on AI and ML, currently doing Computer Vision research under Prof. Gonzalez. In addition to CS, I’m broadly interested in cognition, psychology and linguistics. In my free time, I try to practice my really elementary Swedish.

Chandan Singh

• I’m a 3rd-year EECS PhD student studying interpretable machine learning advised by Prof. Bin Yu

Danny Geitheim

• I’m a fourth year student, originally from Marin County, CA. In my free time I enjoy playing tennis and basketball, as well as watching movies. I’m also a part of Camp Kesem here at Cal. In the past I was a TA for EE120 but now I look forward to being a TA for CS188!

Emma Jaeger

• Hi everyone! I’m Emma and I’m a senior from the DC area studying computer science. In my free time, I love going to concerts and working out⁠ (even though I’m naturally super uncoordinated). Feel free to email me with any questions you have about artificial intelligence, CS at Berkeley, or life in general—I’m always happy to help out however I can :)

Gokul Swamy

• Hey there! I’m a 4th Yr. M.S. student working with Profs. Dragan and Levine on making interaction between people and robots more intuitive and scalable. In my free time I like to read, listen to music, drink boba, and pet my friends’ cats. I’m so excited you’re here :)

Henry Zhu

• I’m a senior(!) studying computers and mechanics who likes to play with learning robots out of the classroom. Come find me to talk about food videos, really cool classes, how to also start playing with robots, or really anything other than sports.

Jesse Zhang

• I’m a 4th year CS student from Sacramento, CA, interested in deep reinforcement learning and machine learning generalization research. In my spare time I like playing smash, going to the gym, and recently just started BJJ!

Jinkyu Kim

• I am a fourth-year graduate student, pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science advised by Prof. John Canny. As a member of Berkeley Deep Drive and Berkeley AI Research Lab, I am currently interested in self-driving vehicles.

Lawrence Chan

• Hello! I’m a second year PhD Student working on building algorithms that can better infer and assist with human preferences. In my free time, I enjoy reading and hiking.

Lindsay Yang

• Hi! I’m a fourth year CS/Cog Sci major, and a big part of my life at this point is how much I like boba, memes, and Bojack Horseman. I’m also the janitor of UPE, and you’ll probably catch me karaokeing my heart out one of these days.

Mike Laielli

• I’m a 3rd year PhD student working with Trevor Darrell and Bjoern Hartmann. My research focuses on the intersection of Computer Vision and Human-Computer Interaction.

Peyrin Kao

• Hi, I’m a third-year CS major and second-time TA. I no longer have any free time because I’m taking EE126 and doing research on inverse reinforcement learning with Prof. Dragan. I hope you have a better time this semester than me. he/him.

Rachel Li

• Hey everyone! I’m a 5th year masters student from Virginia. My academic interests include networking, theory, and AI! In my nonexistent free time, I like to draw, play Clash Royale, and watch Netflix.

Ryan Deng

• Hi! I’m a rising 4th year CS major from Irvine, California. In my free time I like to watch lots of TV and play pickup basketball. I hope you all enjoy 188 this semester!

Sherman Luo

• Nice to meet you, I’m Sherman. AI is super cool, and first became curious about it years ago when computer-controlled characters would whoop me in games like Super Smash Bros Melee or Mario Kart. I’m working with Prof. Dragan as a fourth-year masters and imo CS188 is the greatest class of all time, but your mileage may vary :^) Catch me sometime and let’s talk about something totally random.

Shizhan Zhu

• Hello everyone! I am a third year PhD from BAIR lab. I am happy to join the CS 188 stuff team. My research interest lies in the area of computer vision and machine learning. I am looking forward to the experience communicating with everyone during the semester on CS 188!

Xiaocheng Mesut Yang

• Hello everyone! I am a fourth year CS major. I TA’d CS188 in Summer 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019 (Head TA), and I am happy to rejoin this semester. My interest lies in the intersection of computer vision and reinforcement learning. In my free time, I travel to race radio-controlled vehicles at national and international events. Feel free to come talk to me, about anything!