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John DeNero

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Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Lilt Inc.
📍 Berkeley, California, United States

John DeNero is the Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Lilt, an AI translation company, and a Computer Science Teaching Professor at UC Berkeley. An alumnus of Stanford and UC Berkeley, his expertise is in natural language processing and human-computer interaction, with prior experience at Google Translate.

He is passionate about advancing education, particularly in making computer and data science accessible to undergraduates. John actively promotes UC Berkeleys data science programs and the software infrastructure that supports them, such as the campus-wide Jupyter platform.

He recently helped launch an AI tutor at Berkeley, combining his two career passions—natural language processing and teaching—to help students with computer science homework.

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Current Role
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Berkeley, California, United States
Personality Overview

How John shows up

Friendly But Slow
Requires Proof
Curious But Skeptical

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Priorities

Topics John cares about

AI in Translation
As Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Lilt, he leads research in AI/ML to improve translation technology for professionals and global enterprises.
Computer Science Education
As a Teaching Professor at UC Berkeley, he is deeply involved in undergraduate education and has developed an AI tutor to help students with their homework.
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Career

Work history

Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Lilt Inc.
Teaching Professor
UC Berkeley
Senior Research Scientist
Google
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Education
2005 - 2010
PhD
University of California, Berkeley
1998 - 2002
MA
Stanford University
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