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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.[1] He was appointed Google's chief scientist in 2023 after the merger of DeepMind and Google Brain into Google DeepMind.[2] Dean received a B.S., summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota in computer science and economics in 1990.[3] His undergraduate thesis was on neural networks in C programming, advised by Vipin Kumar.[4][5] He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington in 1996, working under Craig Chambers on compilers[6] and whole-program optimization techniques for object-oriented programming languages.[7] 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".[8] Before joining Google, Dean worked at DEC/Compaq's Western Research Laboratory,[9] where he worked on profiling tools, microprocess

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