Jeff Dean | |
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Born | |
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 Technology |
Institutions | Google; Digital Equipment Corporation |
Thesis | Whole-program optimization of object-oriented languages (1996) |
Doctoral advisor | Craig Chambers |
Jeffrey Adgate "Jeff" Dean (born July 23, 1968) is an American computer scientist and software engineer. Since 2018, he has been the lead of Google AI.[1] He was appointed Google's chief scientist in 2023 after the merger of DeepMind and Google Brain into Google DeepMind.[2]