Nationality American Role Computer scientist Name Jeff Dean | Doctoral advisor Craig Chambers Fields Computer Technology | |
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Institutions Google; Digital Equipment Corporation Alma mater University of Washington, Ph.D. Computer Science (1996)
University of Minnesota B.S. Computer Science and Economics (1990); Thesis Whole-program optimization of object-oriented languages (1996) Education University of Washington (1996), University of Minnesota (1990), University of Washington Similar People Urs Holzle, Andrew Ng, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Fabrice Bellard Profiles | ||
Residence United States of America | ||
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Jeffrey Adgate "Jeff" Dean (born 1968) is an American computer scientist and software engineer. He is currently a Google Senior Fellow in the Systems and Infrastructure Group.
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- How will artificial intelligence affect your life jeff dean tedxla
- large scale deep learning with tensorflow jeff dean
- Personal life and education
- Career in computer science
- Career at Google
- Philanthropy
- Awards and honors
- Major publications
- References
large scale deep learning with tensorflow jeff dean
Personal life and education
Dean received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, working with Craig Chambers on whole-program optimization techniques for object-oriented languages. He received a B.S., summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota in Computer Science & Economics in 1990. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009, which recognized his work on "the science and engineering of large-scale distributed computer systems."
Career in computer science
Prior to joining Google, he was at DEC/Compaq's Western Research Laboratory, where he worked on profiling tools, microprocessor architecture, and information retrieval.
Prior to graduate school, he worked at the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS, developing software for statistical modeling and forecasting of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Career at Google
Dean joined Google in mid-1999, and is currently a Google Senior Fellow in the Systems Infrastructure Group. While at Google, he has designed and implemented large portions of the company's advertising, crawling, indexing and query serving systems, along with various pieces of the distributed computing infrastructure that sits underneath most of Google's products. At various times, he has also worked on improving search quality, statistical machine translation, and various internal software development tools and has had significant involvement in the engineering hiring process.
Among others, the projects he's worked on include:
Philanthropy
Dean and his wife, Heidi Hopper, started the Hopper-Dean Foundation and began making philanthropic grants in 2011. In 2016, the Foundation gave $1 million to MIT to support programs that promote diversity in STEM.