Jeff Dean
Computer scientist; at Google from 1999 to 2026, co-founder of Discovery Loop.
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Google DeepMind and Google (before)
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- Jeff Dean is an American computer scientist.
- He joined Google in 1999 and worked on MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner and TensorFlow.
- He led Google AI from 2018 to 2023 and was Google's chief scientist from 2023 to 2026.
- Google announced his departure on 5 August 2026; he co-founded the AI research startup Discovery Loop.
Key facts
- Born
- 23 July 19681
- Mid-1999 to 2026; departure announced 5 August 20261
- Roles at Google
- Led Google Brain from 2012; head of Google AI, 2018 to 2023; chief scientist, 2023 to 20261
- Systems
- MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, LevelDB, Protocol Buffers, DistBelief, TensorFlow, Pathways1
- Now
- Co-founder of Discovery Loop (2026), AI for research in chip design, biology, drug discovery and materials1
- Education
- B.S., University of Minnesota, 1990; Ph.D., University of Washington, 19961
- Honours
- National Academy of Engineering, 20091
Roles
Before
Part of until 2026
Google DeepMind (Google chief scientist serving Google Research and Google DeepMind, from 2023 to 2026), Google (from mid-1999; Senior Fellow, head of Google AI 2018 to 2023, chief scientist 2023 to 2026; departure announced 5 August 2026) source on Google DeepMindsource on Google
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