Timothy Jurka
| Timothy Paul Jurka | |
|---|---|
| Born |
21 September 1988 Stanford, California |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Davis B.S. Computer Science Ph.D. Political Science (dropped out) |
| Known for | Contributions to document classification software |
| Scientific career | |
| 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.
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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