Jeff Dean

Who is Jeff Dean?

Jeff joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Fellow working in

the Systems Infrastructure Group. Jeff 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, Jeff has also worked on improving search

quality, statistical machine translation, and various internal software

development tools, and he has had significant involvement in the

engineering hiring process.

Prior to joining Google, Jeff was at DEC/Compaq's Western Research

Laboratory, where he worked on profiling tools, microprocessor

architecture, and information retrieval. Earlier, he worked at the

World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS, developing

software for statistical modeling and forecasting of the HIV/AIDS

pandemic.

Jeff is an author of more than 20 publications and a co-inventor on

more than 25 patents. He earned a B.S. in computer science and

economics (summa cum laude) from the University of Minnesota and received a Ph.D. and a M.S. in computer science from the University of Washington.