Jeff Westbrook

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This article is about the crew member. For the character, see Jeff Westbrook (character).
Jeff Westbrook
Crew Member Information
Gender: Male
Job: Writer
Producer
Status:
Active
First episode: The Wettest Stories Ever Told


Jeff Westbrook is a writer for The Simpsons. He has also written for Futurama.

Prior to becoming a TV writer, Westbrook was a successful algorithms researcher. After majoring in physics and history of science at Harvard University, he studied computer science with Robert Tarjan at Princeton University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1989 with a thesis entitled Algorithms and Data Structures for Dynamic Graph Algorithms. He then took a faculty position at Yale University, later becoming a researcher for AT&T Laboratories before leaving research for Hollywood. Westbrook's Erdős number is three due to his research collaborations with Tarjan and others.

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