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CSE Alumnus Jeff Dean Elected to National Academy of Engineering

February 10, 2009

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CSE alumnus Jeff Dean (B.S. 1990) was one of 65 new members recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering. This national honor is the highest professional designation for an engineer.

Dean is a Google Fellow in the Systems Infrastructure Group. His contributions at Google range from low level libraries to high level components and services, all used extensively by various groups and products at Google as building blocks. Some prominent examples of his work are MapReduce, which is a system for simplifying the development of large-scale data processing applications, and BigTable, which is a large-scale semi-structured storage system used in a variety of Google products. These and other contributions by Jeff play a critical role in the scaling of Google's web search system so that it can handle thousands of queries per second over billions of documents in fractions of a second.

Dr. Dean received a B.S., summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota in Computer Science & Economics in 1990, and subsequently received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He is the 2007 recipient of the CSE Distinguished Alumni Award.