# Chelsea Finn

> Chelsea Finn is a Stanford computer science and electrical engineering professor and co-founder of Physical Intelligence. Her work on model-agnostic meta-learning helped establish a way for AI systems to adapt quickly to new tasks; her current research focuses on robots that can transfer experience across machines, objects, and rooms.

- **Role:** Co-founder, Physical Intelligence; Assistant Professor, Stanford University
- **Organizations:** Physical Intelligence, Stanford University, IRIS Lab, Google Brain, Google DeepMind, University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** 2018 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35, 2018 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, announced in 2019, 2022 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award

## Career timeline

- **Middle school** — Participated in FIRST LEGO League, her first exposure to building and programming robots.
- **2010-2014** — Studied electrical engineering and computer science at MIT.
- **2014-2018** — Completed a PhD at UC Berkeley; dissertation: Learning to Learn with Gradients.
- **2017** — Published Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks with Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine.
- **2018-2024** — Research scientist on the Google Brain and later Google DeepMind team.
- **2019** — Joined Stanford as an assistant professor in computer science and electrical engineering.
- **2024** — Co-founded Physical Intelligence.
- **2026** — Co-authored Physical Intelligence’s π0.7 research and spoke at Startup School about robot reliability and general-purpose systems.

## Achievements

- 2018 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35
- 2018 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, announced in 2019
- 2022 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award
- 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship
- 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
- Co-author of the 2017 model-agnostic meta-learning paper
- Founded Stanford’s IRIS Lab and co-founded Physical Intelligence

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Spoke at Startup School 2026 about Physical Intelligence, long-duration reliability, reinforcement learning, and general-purpose robots.
- **2026-04** — Named among the authors of Physical Intelligence’s π0.7 research on compositional generalization.
- **2026-02** — Physical Intelligence described partner deployments using its robot models in laundry and warehouse tasks.
- **2025-11** — Named among the authors of Physical Intelligence’s π*0.6 work on learning from experience.
- **2025-03** — Demonstrated Stanford robot learning work with graduate student Moo Jin Kim in an NPR report.

## Links

- Website: https://ai.stanford.edu/~cbfinn/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cbfinn
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/chelseabfinn
- GitHub: https://github.com/cbfinn

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