Tim Jurka
The Bearer of Good News at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
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2013
VP of Engineering
2013
Leading the global engineering teams that build the LinkedIn Feed, Creation, and Video experiences. We are a cross-functional team of apps, infra, AI engineers and data scientists building experiences to tap into the collective professional knowledge of the world.
Chief Executive Officer
2024
The Genetic Information Research Institute builds Repbase, the most commonly used database of repetitive DNA elements.
2013 - 2014
Head of Machine Learning
2013 - 2014
Led news relevance efforts at Pulse, a news-reading application with 30M+ users. Designed the first recommender system, developed core infrastructure for machine learning, and was responsible for the due diligence and integration of the Pulse machine learning stack during LinkedIn's acquisition.
2010 - 2013
Ph.D. Student
2010 - 2013
My research intersected political science, machine learning, and population biology. While at UC Davis, I designed software for document classification via supervised learning, developed agent-based models to understand the effects of shocks (e.g. riots, natural disasters) on social and physical (e.g. computer, utility, transportation) networks, and tracked voter reactions to political debates in real-time and explored which debate messages resonate with voters.