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Chelsea Finn

Observer · DISC type ci
Co-Founder at Physical Intelligence
📍 Stanford, California, United States

Chelsea Finn is an Assistant Professor at Stanford University and the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. Her research focuses on enabling robots to develop intelligent behaviors through machine learning, reinforcement learning, and interaction at scale. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and a BS from MIT, and previously worked with Google Brain.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Stanford, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Chelsea shows up

Curious
Example Seeker
Value Driven

They ask a lot of questions and rely heavily on information and collaterals. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince.

Priorities

Topics Chelsea cares about

General-Purpose Robots
Her company, Physical Intelligence, aims to build a general-purpose AI model that can control any robot for any task, moving beyond single-application robotics.
Robot Foundation Models
She is deeply involved in developing robot foundation models, like π₀, by pre-training on diverse, large-scale datasets to achieve generalizable physical intelligence.
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Career

Work history

3-2024
Co-Founder
Physical Intelligence
9-2019
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
8-2018 - 3-2024
Research Scientist
Google Brain, Google DeepMind
8-2014 - 8-2018
PhD Student
UC Berkeley
6-2014 - 8-2014
Engineering Intern
Counsyl
In the press

Media appearances

The Robotics Revolution, with Physical Intelligence's Cofounder .... Featured in Spotify
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Keynote Talk 1: Chelsea Finn, Stanford University. Featured in YouTube
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Education
2014 - 2018
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
University of California, Berkeley
2010 - 2014
BS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

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