University of Minnesota
University of Washington
Sanjay GhemawatFounder
Discovery Loop
Co-founder
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Researcher · Academic · Founder
Jeff Dean
Co-founder at Discovery Loop
Dean is widely regarded as one of the most influential programmers of his generation. He helped build MapReduce and Bigtable, foundations that let Google operate at global scale, then co-founded Google Brain and helped create TensorFlow, bringing the same large-scale engineering approach to modern AI.
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Background
Current role
Co-founder 2026-presentDiscovery Loop
Discovery LoopPreviously
Until 2026Chief Scientist, 
Google DeepMind
Google DeepMindUntil 2026Chief Scientist, Google Research
Born1968
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Last editorial review: August 8, 2026News 2
moveJeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to build Discovery Loop
Google’s longtime chief scientist said August 6 would be his final day after a career spanning core infrastructure, Google Brain, and DeepMind.
August 6, 2026launchJeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Quoc Le, and Sanjay Ghemawat launch Discovery LoopFour longtime Google collaborators founded a public benefit corporation to automate machine learning, science, and engineering.
August 5, 2026Citation Trend
10 snapshots431,536citations as of Sep 1, '26+10,575 since Aug 1, '26
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