David Jurgens
Associate Professor
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Jurgens is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan with 13 years of experience at the intersection of computational social science, NLP, and data science. He builds large-scale, data-driven systems to analyze social media and population behavior, drawing on a research trajectory through Stanford, McGill, and industry labs like HRL and Microsoft. His work blends rigorous machine learning and statistical physics approaches with applied problems in political science, public health, and economics, reflecting a rare cross-disciplinary reach. Prior roles from Amazon and Sun to startup AI architecture show he pairs production-grade engineering with academic inquiry. Based in Ann Arbor, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from UCLA and is known for extracting subtle, latent signals from noisy time-series and text data that reveal otherwise hidden social dynamics.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Stackoverflow
304reputation
34kreached
10answers
2questions
Github Skills (72)
computational-linguistics10
speech10
agentic-workflow10
agentic-ai10
audio10
nlp10
data-labeling10
natural-language-processing10
image10
text-annotation10
annotator10
crowdsourcing9
corpus8
topic-modeling8
word2vec8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
networkdynamics/humanizr
Apr 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 comments in 5 years 5 months
davidjurgens/equilid
Apr 2017 - Nov 2022
Socially-Equitable Language Identification
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 years 8 months
nlpnatural-language-processinglanguage-identificationidentification
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