Residence United States | Nationality US | |
Born 21 September 1988Stanford, California ( 1988-09-21 ) Alma mater University of California, Davis B.S. Computer SciencePh.D. Political Science (dropped out) Fields Computer Science, Political Science | ||
Timothy Paul Jurka (born September 21, 1988) is a Polish-American computer scientist and political scientist. He is the son of computational biologist Jerzy Jurka.
Background
Jurka is best known for his work on text classification software, including the development of RTextTools and MaxEnt for the R statistical programming language. He currently manages the data teams that build the LinkedIn news feed. Previously, Jurka served as the architect of machine learning algorithms for news recommendations in the Pulse news reading application, which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2013.
Additionally, Jurka has collaborated on numerous projects in political science spanning media framing, civic engagement, and tobacco and immunization policy.
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