# Daniel Cer

> Senior Research Scientist at Google

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielcer

Research on natural language processing (NLP) and natural language understanding (NLU) using deep learning.

## Work Experience
### Senior Research Scientist @ Google
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Engineer, Research @ Google
Jan 2013 – Present | Mountain View, CA
Research on computational semantics using deep learning models.

### Lecturer @ UC Berkeley School of Information
Jan 2018 – Present | Berkeley, CA
Teaching DATASCI W266 Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning.

### Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford NLP Group @ Stanford University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
Better machine translation system combination through positive diversity training (PDT). Training machine translation decoding models with very large discriminative feature sets. Semantic textual similarity (STS). Improved modeling of machine translation argument structure.

### Research Assistant, Stanford NLP Group @ Stanford University
Jan 2005 – Jan 2011
Machine learning for phrase-based machine translation systems, including creating the state-of-the-art Phrasal machine translation package.

### Research Assistant, Center for Spoken Language Research @ University of Colorado at Boulder
Jan 2003 – Jan 2005
Machine learning for speech recognition tasks, and development of a parallel/distributed acoustic model trainer for the Sonic speech recognition system. Joint appointment with Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab.

### Research Assistant, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab @ University of Colorado at Boulder
Jan 2001 – Jan 2004
Modeling of human language processing and symbolic binding using biologically motivated neural
                networks with Prof. Randall C. O'Reilly.

### Intern, Machine Translation Group @ Google
Jan 2004 – Jan 2004
Implementation of language modeling data structures for use in a statistical machine translation decoder.

### Site Support, Information and Technology Services @ University of Colorado at Boulder
Jan 1997 – Jan 2001
Student computing lab IT support.

### Intern, Market Intelligence and Decision Support (MIDS) @ US West
Jan 1999 – Jan 1999
Development of an internal knowledge management system and other collaboration tools for US
                West's intelligence analysts.


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science; Certificate in Cognitive Science
University of Colorado Boulder


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danielcer
- Portfolio: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BrT1NW8AAAAJ&hl=en
- Portfolio: https://research.google.com/
- Portfolio: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/resume/daniel_cer_cv_nov_2017.pdf

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Last updated: 2026-04-10