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John DeNero

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Computer Science Education Introductory Data Science Education Machine Translation
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University of California at Berkeley CS Faculty Uc berkeley

About

John DeNero is the Giancarlo Teaching Fellow in the UC Berkeley EECS department. He joined the Cal faculty in 2014 to focus on undergraduate education in computer science and data science. He teaches and co-develops two of the largest courses on campus: introductory computer science for majors and introductory data science. He is the author of Composing Programs and co-author of Computational and Inferential Thinking, two online textbooks. His research focuses both on natural language processing and computer science education. He received his Masters in Philosophy from Stanford University and his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2010. Prior to becoming a professor, John was a senior research scientist at Google working primarily on Google Translate and natural language processing.

Research Performance Summary

88
Total Papers
2909
Total Citations
29
H-Index
2005-2025
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Improving Phrase-Based Machine Translation

Year: 2005

Citations: 0

Venue: N/A

Latest Recorded Paper

Partial execution of translation in browser

Year: 2025

Citations: 0

Venue: US Patent 12,307

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2025
8
2024
2
2023
3
2022
5
2021
8
2020
6
2019
4
2018
2
2017
4
2016
8
2015
6

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 49
Journal 4
Book 2

Top Coauthors

DeNero Klein Wuebker

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 8
Citations 49
Avg. Citations / Paper 6.1
H-Index 4

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 24
Citations 232
Avg. Citations / Paper 9.7
H-Index 8

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 24
Citations 665
Avg. Citations / Paper 27.7
H-Index 13

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 19
Citations 1068
Avg. Citations / Paper 56.2
H-Index 13

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 13
Citations 895
Avg. Citations / Paper 68.8
H-Index 11

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

denero@berkeley.edu

Detected Research Keywords

Neural Machine Translation Computational Inferential Thinking Neural Word Alignment Neural Translation Models Interleaving Computational Inferential Actors Game Mafia Statistical Machine Translation Techniques Machine Language Machine Language Translation Language Translation Text