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Jeff Dean

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 14 different languages on Wikipedia. Jeff Dean is the 238th most popular computer scientist, the 17,535th most popular biography from United States and the 123rd most popular American Computer Scientist.

Jeff Dean is most famous for his work at Google, where he co-developed key technologies such as MapReduce, Bigtable, and TensorFlow, significantly advancing the fields of distributed computing and machine learning. He is also a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence and has contributed to various foundational systems that power Google's infrastructure.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Jeff Dean ranks 238 out of 245. Before him are Mark Overmars, Dariusz Jemielniak, Jenova Chen, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Larry Ewing, and Theodore Ts'o. After him are Jon Lech Johansen, Rosalind Picard, Andrej Karpathy, David Braben, Denny Vrandečić, and Fabrice Bellard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Jeff Dean ranks 1,041. Before him are Tore Torvbråten, Dimitrios Droutsas, Luis Miguel Salvador, Joey Slotnick, František Kučera, and Olga Kuznetsova. After him are Catherine Plewinski, Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant, Matthew Libatique, Michael Sandstød, Sašo Mirjanič, and Hayato Okanaka.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeff Dean ranks 17,542 out of 20,380. Before him are Ari Graynor (1983), Joshua (1995), Andrew Breitbart (1969), Gigi Ibrahim (1988), Zach Woods (1984), and Danny Manning (1966). After him are Megan Dodds (1970), Matthew Libatique (1968), Chris Chalk (1977), Debi Thomas (1967), Margot Lee Shetterly (1969), and Mark Begich (1962).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Jeff Dean ranks 123. Before him are Douglas Crockford (1955), Steve Wilhite (1948), John Ousterhout (1954), Shawn Fanning (1980), Greg Kroah-Hartman (null), and Theodore Ts'o (1968). After him are Rosalind Picard (1962), Rich Skrenta (1967), Eric Bina (1964), Jordan Hubbard (1963), Dave Hyatt (1972), and Valerie Aurora (null).

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