2026 Kenton Lee: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	32	12823	12449	5162	4926	52	96933

Overview

Kenton Lee is a researcher affiliated with Google in the United States specializing primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their work spans several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Physiology, Language and Linguistics, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas such as:

Natural Language Processing Techniques
Topic Modeling
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Sleep and Wakefulness Research
EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning

Kenton Lee has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
SLEEP
Modern English Education
Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Some of their recent papers include:

Pix2Struct: Screenshot Parsing as Pretraining for Visual Language Understanding, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
Neural Data Augmentation via Example Extrapolation, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Other notable publications that Kenton Lee has contributed to, though with different lead authors, are:

EMBI, 2024, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
NeurIPS 2020 EfficientQA Competition: Systems, Analyses and Lessons Learned, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Kenton Lee frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most frequent co-authors include:

Kristina Toutanova
Ming-Wei Chang
Mandar Joshi
Max Lundeen
Hexiang Hu

Best Publications

BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

Jacob Devlin;Ming-Wei Chang;Kenton Lee;Kristina N. Toutanova

75459
Citations
Deep contextualized word representations

Matthew E. Peters;Mark Neumann;Mohit Iyyer;Matt Gardner

11936
Citations
Natural Questions: A Benchmark for Question Answering Research

Tom Kwiatkowski;Jennimaria Palomaki;Olivia Redfield;Michael Collins

1954
Citations
Latent Retrieval for Weakly Supervised Open Domain Question Answering

Kenton Lee;Ming-Wei Chang;Kristina N. Toutanova

894
Citations
End-to-end Neural Coreference Resolution

Kenton Lee;Luheng He;Mike Lewis;Luke Zettlemoyer

885
Citations
BoolQ: Exploring the Surprising Difficulty of Natural Yes/No Questions

Christopher Clark;Kenton Lee;Ming-Wei Chang;Tom Kwiatkowski

552
Citations
Legibility and predictability of robot motion

Anca D. Dragan;Kenton C.T. Lee;Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

540
Citations
Higher-Order Coreference Resolution with Coarse-to-Fine Inference

Kenton Lee;Luheng He;Luke Zettlemoyer

521
Citations
REALM: Retrieval-Augmented Language Model Pre-Training.

Kelvin Guu;Kenton Lee;Zora Tung;Panupong Pasupat

489
Citations
Deep Semantic Role Labeling: What Works and What’s Next

Luheng He;Kenton Lee;Mike Lewis;Luke Zettlemoyer

483
Citations
Well-Read Students Learn Better: On the Importance of Pre-training Compact Models

Iulia Turc;Ming-Wei Chang;Kenton Lee;Kristina Toutanova

427
Citations
Zero-shot Entity Linking by Reading Entity Descriptions

Lajanugen Logeswaran;Ming-Wei Chang;Kenton Lee;Kristina N. Toutanova

300
Citations
Jointly Predicting Predicates and Arguments in Neural Semantic Role Labeling

Luheng He;Kenton Lee;Omer Levy;Luke Zettlemoyer

271
Citations
Retrieval Augmented Language Model Pre-Training

Kelvin Guu;Kenton Lee;Zora Tung;Panupong Pasupat

224
Citations
Learning Recurrent Span Representations for Extractive Question Answering

Kenton Lee;Shimi Salant;Tom Kwiatkowski;Ankur Parikh

195
Citations
Broad-coverage CCG Semantic Parsing with AMR

Yoav Artzi;Kenton Lee;Luke Zettlemoyer

179
Citations
A BERT Baseline for the Natural Questions

Chris Alberti;Kenton Lee;Michael Collins

169
Citations
Well-Read Students Learn Better: The Impact of Student Initialization on Knowledge Distillation

Iulia Turc;Ming-Wei Chang;Kenton Lee;Kristina Toutanova

153
Citations
Syntactic Scaffolds for Semantic Structures.

Swabha Swayamdipta;Sam Thomson;Kenton Lee;Luke Zettlemoyer

116
Citations
XOR QA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering

Akari Asai;Jungo Kasai;Jonathan H. Clark;Kenton Lee

115
Citations
LSTM CCG Parsing.

Mike Lewis;Kenton Lee;Luke Zettlemoyer

105
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ming-Wei Chang Google (United States)

Luke Zettlemoyer University of Washington

Kristina Toutanova Google (United States)

Michael Collins Google (United States)

Hannaneh Hajishirzi University of Washington

Michael Lewis University of Pittsburgh

Omer Levy Deep Mind

Yoav Artzi Cornell University

Siddhartha S. Srinivasa University of Washington

Jordan Boyd-Graber University of Maryland, College Park

External Links

Personal website of Kenton Lee

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