Jeff Dean is an American computer scientist and software engineer. He is the Senior Vice President of Google Research and Health and a Google Senior Fellow.
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— Jeff Dean (@?) (@JeffDean) July 20, 2020
Jeff Dean Net Worth
Jeff Dean’s net worth is around $30 million. He is currently heading Google’s AI division. He works as the Senior Vice President or SVP of Google Research and Health and as a Google Senior Fellow. He is the designer, developer, and implementer of many Google systems and programs.
Before working in Google, he had a job at Western Research Laboratory, Compaq Computer Corporation as a research assistant. He was also part of the senior members of the technical staff at mySimon, a comparison-based shopping website that provides shopping recommendations.
Dean and his wife Heidi Hopper established the Hopper-Dean Foundation in 2011. Their foundation granted $2 million each to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, University of Washington, and Carnegie Mellon University to support programs that help advance diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in 2016.
Personal Life
Jeff Dean was born in Hawaii on July 23, 1968. As of 2022, he is 54 years old. Not much is known about his parents or siblings.
He entered the University of Minnesota in 1990, where he studied engineering and computer science and graduated as summa cum laude. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington. There he worked under Craig Chambers who has been a computer scientist at Google since 2007. In 1996, Dean and Chambers worked on compilers and whole-program optimization techniques for object-oriented programming languages.
In 2009, Jeff Dean was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his work on “the science and engineering of large-scale distributed computer systems.”
Professional Career
From 1991 to 1992, Jeff Dean worked at the University of Washington as an instructor for Introductory Programming II. He designed a curriculum for a class of 60 students.
He got a job at Compaq‘s Western Research Laboratory as a research assistant before joining Google. At Compaq, he was the co-designer of Digital’s Continuous Profiling Infrastructure and the inventor of ProfileMe.
He joined Google in 1999. Right now, he is a Google Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research and Google Health. His areas of interest include large-scale distributed systems, compression techniques, microprocessor architecture, application of machine learning to search and other related problems, performance monitoring, and compiler optimizations.
While at Google, he worked on many projects. He is the co-designer and the implementer of the initial version of Google’s advertising serving system, Spanner, MapReduce, LevelDB, TensorFlow, and BigTable. He is the developer and the designer of Google’s AdSense for Content product involving both the production serving system. Aside from these, he worked on Google Translate and Google News.
He is also involved in Google’s engineering hiring process and the leader of Google’s deep learning research and engineering team.
Jeff Dean Relationship Status
Jeff Dean is married to Heidi Hopper and together they have two daughters.
They have a foundation called Hopper-Dean Foundation which they established in 2011.
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