Meet the instructors

We are very excited to teach you this fall! If you have logistical questions or concerns, please contact the course staff.

Instructors give course lectures, manage course staff, and oversee course policies.

John DeNero

he/him/his

• denero@berkeley.edu

Kay Ousterhout

she/her/hers

• kayo@berkeley.edu


• Hi!, I’m a new teaching professor at UC Berkeley. I completed my PhD here in 2017, and loved serving as a GSI for CS 61B. I’m planning to co-teach 61B in the spring, so I’m excited to continue the journey next semester with many of you! Before returning to UC Berkeley, I was a software engineer building high-performance distributed systems. I helped to build performance monitoring tools at a startup called Lightstep, and I worked on the Apache Spark project, an open-source system for processing massive data sets (developed here at Berkeley!). I’m looking forward to experiencing the course together with you!