| Timothy Jurka | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | University of California, Davis |
| Known for | Contributions to document classification software |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science Political Science |
Timothy Jurka is a Polish-American computer scientist 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, and tobacco and immunization policy. Additionally, he wrote text classification software, including RTextTools and MaxEnt for the R statistical programming language.
He is the son of computational biologist Jerzy Jurka.
References
- LinkedIn "A Look Behind the AI that Powers LinkedIn’s Feed"
- Axios "LinkedIn goes niche"
- TechCrunch "LinkedIn Acquires Pulse For $90M In Stock And Cash"
- University of Chicago Press "Making the News: Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting"
- Washington Monthly "College Students on the Debate: Agreeing with Obama, Agreeing that Romney Won"
- Social Science Research Network "Colleague Crowdsourcing: A Method for Incentivizing National Student Engagement and Large-N Data Collection"
- State Politics and Policy Conference "Agendas and Alternatives in the American States: Determinants of State Legislative Attention to Tobacco and Immunizations"
- Google Scholar "Timothy P. Jurka"
- The R Journal "RTextTools: A Supervised Learning Package for Text Classification"
- The R Journal "maxent: An R Package for Low-memory Multinomial Logistic Regression with Support for Semi-automated Text Classification"
- DataScience+ "Sentiment analysis with machine learning in R"
- Jurka, E. (2015). "Jerzy Jurka: June 4, 1950 – July 19, 2014". Mob DNA. 6: 2. doi:10.1186/s13100-014-0032-2. PMC 4293820.