Timothy Jurka

Timothy Jurka is a Polish-American computer scientist and political scientist.

Timothy Jurka
Alma materUniversity of California, Davis
Known forContributions to document classification software
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Political Science

Background

Jurka is best known for developing the artificial intelligence that ranks the LinkedIn news feed.[1][2] Previously, Jurka developed machine learning algorithms for news recommendations in the Pulse news reading application, which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2013.[3][4]

As a Ph.D. student at UC Davis, Jurka collaborated on numerous projects in political science spanning media framing,[5][6] civic engagement,[7] and tobacco and immunization policy.[8] Additionally, he wrote text classification software, including RTextTools and MaxEnt for the R statistical programming language,[9][10][11][12] both of which have since been deprecated.[13][14]

He is the son of computational biologist Jerzy Jurka.[15]

References
  1. LinkedIn "A Look Behind the AI that Powers LinkedIn’s Feed"
  2. Axios "LinkedIn goes niche"
  3. TechCrunch "LinkedIn Acquires Pulse For $90M In Stock And Cash"
  4. CrunchBase "Timothy Jurka"
  5. University of Chicago Press "Making the News: Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting"
  6. Washington Monthly "College Students on the Debate: Agreeing with Obama, Agreeing that Romney Won"
  7. Social Science Research Network "Colleague Crowdsourcing: A Method for Incentivizing National Student Engagement and Large-N Data Collection"
  8. State Politics and Policy Conference "Agendas and Alternatives in the American States: Determinants of State Legislative Attention to Tobacco and Immunizations"
  9. Google Scholar "Timothy P. Jurka"
  10. The R Journal "RTextTools: A Supervised Learning Package for Text Classification"
  11. The R Journal "maxent: An R Package for Low-memory Multinomial Logistic Regression with Support for Semi-automated Text Classification"
  12. DataScience+ "Sentiment analysis with machine learning in R"
  13. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RTextTools/index.html
  14. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/maxent/index.html
  15. Jurka, E. (2015). "Jerzy Jurka: June 4, 1950 – July 19, 2014". Mob DNA. 6: 2. doi:10.1186/s13100-014-0032-2. PMC 4293820.
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