Jeff Dean
Jeff Dean | |
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Dean in 2024 | |
| Born | July 23, 1968 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota, B.S. Computer Science and Engineering (1990) University of Washington, Ph.D. Computer Science (1996) |
| Known for | MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, TensorFlow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Google, Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Thesis | Whole-program optimization of object-oriented languages (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Craig Chambers |
Jeffrey Adgate Dean (born July 23, 1968) is an American computer scientist and software engineer. Since 2018, he has been the lead of Google AI. He was appointed Google's chief scientist in 2023 after the merger of DeepMind and Google Brain into Google DeepMind.