Jeff Westbrook

Jeff Westbrook is an American TV writer best known for his work on The Simpsons and Futurama. He wrote three episodes for Futurama: "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", "The 30% Iron Chef" and "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" and to date has written three Simpsons episodes: "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister", "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" and "Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2".

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.

External links

• Jeff Westbrook at IMDb
• Dr. Sarah's Mathematical Backgrounds of the Simpsons Writers
• A Futurama Math Conversation with Dr. Jeff Westbrook
• Jeffery Westbrook: list of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server