Timothy Jurka

Timothy Paul Jurka
Born (1988-09-21)21 September 1988
Stanford, California
Residence United States
Nationality US
Fields Computer Science
Political Science
Alma mater University of California, Davis B.S. Computer Science
Ph.D. Political Science (dropped out)[1]
Known for Contributions to document classification software

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.[2]

Research

Jurka is best known for his work on text classification software, including the development of RTextTools and MaxEnt for the R statistical programming language.[3][4][5][6][7] More recently, 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.[8][9]

Additionally, Jurka has collaborated on numerous projects in political science spanning media framing,[10][11] civic engagement,[12] and tobacco and immunization policy.[13]

References

  1. ↑ University of California, Davis, Department of Political Science
  2. ↑ National Center for Biotechnology Information "Jerzy Jurka: June 4, 1950 – July 19, 2014"
  3. ↑ Google Scholar "Timothy P. Jurka"
  4. ↑ The R Journal "RTextTools: A Supervised Learning Package for Text Classification"
  5. ↑ The R Journal "maxent: An R Package for Low-memory Multinomial Logistic Regression with Support for Semi-automated Text Classification"
  6. ↑ IBM developerWorks "Data Mining Patterns Derived from SMS Mobile Data"
  7. ↑ DataScience+ "Sentiment analysis with machine learning in R"
  8. ↑ TechCrunch "LinkedIn Acquires Pulse For $90M In Stock And Cash"
  9. ↑ CrunchBase "Timothy Jurka"
  10. ↑ University of Chicago Press "Making the News: Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting"
  11. ↑ Washington Monthly "College Students on the Debate: Agreeing with Obama, Agreeing that Romney Won"
  12. ↑ Social Science Research Network "Colleague Crowdsourcing: A Method for Incentivizing National Student Engagement and Large-N Data Collection"
  13. ↑ State Politics and Policy Conference "Agendas and Alternatives in the American States: Determinants of State Legislative Attention to Tobacco and Immunizations"
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