Peter Chen
Co-founder And CEO at covariant.ai
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Chen is a founder-CEO and AI robotics leader with 13 years of experience translating cutting-edge academic research into production systems. As co-founder and CEO of Covariant.ai based in Berkeley, he has steered commercial deployments of machine learning-driven robotics since 2017, drawing on prior research roles at UC Berkeley and OpenAI. He combines deep technical expertise in probabilistic modeling and large-scale systems with hands-on startup experience, from a mobile-commerce venture to terabyte-scale engineering at Facebook. A Berkeley-trained computer scientist and PhD candidate in EECS, he brings both rigorous research instincts and product-focused execution to automate real-world tasks. An under-the-radar strength is his history of teaching and research that shaped explainable AI and structured probabilistic methods, informing how Covariant approaches reliable, interpretable robotic intelligence.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), EECS, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), EECS at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science and Statistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science and Statistics at UC Berkeley
Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (65)
python10
deep-learning10
ml10
neural-network10
data-science10
marketplace10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
representation-learning9
currency9
spree9
generative9
cart9
openai-gym8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Sellegit/j2objc
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:157 commits in 7 months
florensacc/rllab-curriculum
Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:749 commits in 1 year 3 months
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