Studio portrait likely commissioned by Harry and Sara Konen. / Public domain

Jeffrey Dean

Google AI

lead of Google AI since 2018
appointed Google's chief scientist after DeepMind and Google Brain merger
contributor to Apache Hadoop and MapReduce

Jeffrey Adgate Dean is an American computer scientist and software engineer who has been at the forefront of Google’s AI initiatives since 2018. Dean is also recognized for his contributions to Apache Hadoop and MapReduce.

Milestones

The Deep Learning Revolution Research

The Equation That Made Words Do Math

A Google researcher discovered that neural networks could learn word meanings so precisely that 'King minus Man plus Woman equals Queen' — and it actually worked.

2013