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Jeff Dean

Computer scientist who helped build MapReduce and TensorFlow

4recordsFirst record 2011Latest Aug 5, 2026

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Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, Oriol Vinyals
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals found Discovery Loop

A major talent move in which iconic figures of Google's infrastructure join the wave of new labs promising to automate scientific discovery with AI

Paul Barham, Jeff Dean et al. (Google)
Google presents Pathways

The orchestration layer that made PaLM-class training possible, and the execution foundation of the JAX/TPU stack

Geoffrey Hinton, Oriol Vinyals, Jeff Dean (Google)
Google publishes Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network on arXiv

Formalized distillation, which transfers a large model's knowledge to a small model. The root of today's small-model lineage

Quoc V. Le, Jeff Dean, Andrew Y. Ng et al. (Google Brain)
Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning

Showed that high-level concepts emerge from nothing more than large-scale unlabeled data and large-scale compute. A symbol of Google's investment in deep learning