Faculty Director of Data Science Undergraduate Studies (DSUS) and Associate Teaching Professor in the UC Berkeley EECS department

Email: ude.yelekreb@orened

Where and When

Spring 2026 Lecture Schedule

• Data 8 11am-12pm Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in 150 Wheeler

Spring 2026 Office Hours

• 2:10pm-3pm Monday in 795 Soda
• 9:10am-10am Friday in 795 Soda
• By appointment

What and How

Research

• See Google Scholar for publications.
• Here are links to some early publications before 2018.
• Berkeley students are welcome to email me with questions about research. Currently I am not taking new students.

Teaching

• Past and Current Courses
• YouTube channel
• Composing Programs, a free online textbook for introductory computer science
• Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science, a free online textbook for introductory data science
• The Pac-Man projects for teaching artificial intelligence
• Instructor materials and info for Data 8
• Data Science Education at Berkeley

Bio

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 (3000 students per year) and introductory data science (1500 students per year). 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.