Timothy Jurka is a
Polish-American
Polish Americans ( pl, Polonia amerykańska) are Americans who either have total or partial Poles, Polish ancestry, or are citizens of the Republic of Poland. There are an estimated 9.15 million self-identified Polish Americans, representing abou ...
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
and
political scientist.
Background
Jurka is best known for developing the
artificial intelligence that
ranks the
LinkedIn news feed. Previously, Jurka developed
machine learning algorithms for
news recommendations in the
Pulse news reading application, which was acquired by
LinkedIn in 2013.
As a
Ph.D. student at
UC Davis, Jurka collaborated on numerous projects in
political science spanning
media framing,
civic engagement
Civic engagement or civic participation is any individual or group activity addressing issues of public concern. Civic engagement includes communities working together or individuals working alone in both political and non-political actions to ...
, and
tobacco and
immunization policy. Additionally, he wrote
text classification
Document classification or document categorization is a problem in library science, information science and computer science. The task is to assign a document to one or more classes or categories. This may be done "manually" (or "intellectually") ...
software, including RTextTools and MaxEnt for the
R statistical programming language.
He is the son of
computational biologist
Computational biology refers to the use of data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships. An intersection of computer science, biology, and big data, the field also has fo ...
Jerzy Jurka.
References
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1988 births
Living people
Computer scientists
University of California, Davis alumni
People from Stanford, California