# Anca Dragan

### Research Areas

- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

### Research Centers

- Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR)
- Berkeley Deep Drive (BDD)
- Berkeley Institute of Design (BID)
- Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI)
- Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society - The Banatao Institute (CITRIS)
- Robotics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory

## Biography

Anca runs the InterACT lab, focusing on enabling AI agents and robots to work with, around, and in support of people. One of the core problems they work on is AI alignment -- getting agents (be it robots, cars, large language models, or rec systems) to do what people actually want them to by interactively learning from human feedback and modeling human decision-making. The InterACT lab also works on algorithms for human-AI collaboration, enabling agents to fluently assist humans in physical or virtual tasks.

## Education

- 2015, PhD, Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
- 2009, B.S., Computer Science, Jacobs University, Bremen

## Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

- RAS Early Career Award, 2021
- Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching Computer Science, 2020
- Sloan Research Fellow, 2018
- MIT Tech Review Top 35 Innovators Under 35 (TR35), 2017
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER), 2017
- Okawa Research Grant, 2017