Scholar
Jonathan Berant
Google Scholar ID: xCYHonIAAAAJ
Professor, Tel-Aviv University, Visiting Faculty Researcher, Google DeepMInd
Citations & Impact
Citations
18,552
H-index
56
i10-index
110
Publications
20
Co-authors
180
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications that are part of the ERC DELPHI project are listed here.
Research Experience
- Currently on leave of absence at Google (based in Seattle) and not taking students until summer 2026.
- Was an associate professor at the Blavatnik School of Computer Science, and a Research Scientist at The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Education
- 2015-16: Post-doctoral researcher at Google Mountain View
- 2012-15: Post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University with Percy Liang and Chris Manning
- 2006-12: Ph.D from Tel-Aviv University. Advisors: Ido Dagan, Jacob Goldberger, Eytan Ruppin. Thesis: Global Learning of Textual Entailment Graphs.
- 2003-06: B.Sc in Computer Science and Linguistics, Tel-Aviv University
Background
- His field of research is Natural Language Processing. He works on Natural Language Understanding problems such as Semantic Parsing, Question Answering, Paraphrasing, Reading Comprehension, and Textual Entailment. He is mostly excited about learning from weak supervision that is easy to obtain and grounded in the world, and in tasks that require multi-step inference or handling of language compositionality.
Miscellany
- Teaching experience includes Advanced Topics in NLP seminar, NLP courses, First Steps in Research, and Undergrad seminar in NLP.
