Chelsea Finn is an American computer scientist and assistant professor at Stanford University.

Finn was an undergraduate student in electrical engineering and computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Her work in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Lab (BAIR) focused on gradient based algorithms .

[9] She developed meta-learning approaches to train neural networks to take in student code and output useful feedback.

[10] She trialled the programme on Code in Place, a 12,000 student course delivered by Stanford University every year.