Jeffrey Adgate "Jeff" 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 Alphabet's chief scientist in 2023 after a reorganization of Alphabet's AI focused groups.[2] Education[edit] Dean received a B.S., summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota in computer science and economics in 1990.[3]