Timothy Jurka | |
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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.
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]
As a Ph.D. student at UC Davis, Jurka collaborated on numerous projects in political science spanning media framing, [4] [5] civic engagement, [6] and tobacco and immunization policy. [7] Additionally, he wrote text classification software, including RTextTools and MaxEnt for the R statistical programming language. [8] [9] [10] [11]
He is the son of computational biologist Jerzy Jurka. [12]