David Jurgens Email & Phone Number

Ann Arbor, MI, US

Ann Arbor, MI

Palo Alto, CA

Montreal, Canada Area

Rome, Italy

I research predictive analytics on social media to understand large scale population behavior. My leverages Big Data methods for machine learning and knowledge extraction for research in social sciences, immunology, political science, economics, and statistical physics.

Society and Engineering - A capstone course focusing on the role of ethical decision making in engineering with an emphasis on technical writing.

I developed Big Data methods to analyze terabytes of time series log data across multiple machines for understanding machine failures. Our time series analysis revealed latent machine failure causes that were unnoticed by prior expert-based manual analysis.

• (MSN Video)
• Developed and invented new video fingerprinting technology to catalog MSN Video clips
• Designed a workflow that added closed captioning to MSN Video clips, which had significant value additions of searching inside the video's spoken text and provided additional content tags for search.
• Created natural language pattern extraction technology to expand the set of video tags based on website content

• Taught one-hour discussion sections, prepared exams, and developed homework and supplemental material for courses in the Technology Management course series. This three-class series emphasizes business topics that.
• Introduction to Technology Management and Economics for Engineers: Fall 2008
• Introduction to Finance and Accounting for Engineers: Winter 2009 Taught two-hour discussion sections, prepared written exams and developed new homework for four courses in Computer Science.
• Compiler Construction: Fall 2006, Winter 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008
• Operating Systems: Spring 2007
• Artificial Intelligence: Winter 2008

• Developed an alternate, experimental version of Project Darkstar's persistence layer for transaction research.
• Implemented a scalable deque for the system and assisted in designing other data structures.
• Created a transparent caching system for read-only data, which was one of the most requested features by the community.

• Developed software for a five-person start-up based on presenting internet content as a continuously browsable media stream.
• Created semantic clustering algorithm to relate pop-culture data. Relations were combined with a novel graphical front end for an internet-as-appliance browser.
• Generated a working prototype that was essential in securing a second round of angel funding.

• Designed and implemented a high-concurrency, scalable hash map for use in the transactional application server.
• Developed a customizable logging layer to allow transactional semantics on top of existing Java logging.
• Constructed a new profiling framework and an internal testing platform with an associated scripting language for rapid test scenario prototyping.

• Investigated scheduling algorithms for a distributed, latency-optimized application server.
• Co-authored an internal white paper comparing current scheduling algorithms in a latency-bound environment.
• Invented one new scheduling- related algorithm and co-invented a scheduling- related data structure, both currently submitted for patents.

• Developed productivity enhancing software for internal customers.
• Integrated additional vendors and data sources into the amazon.com content build, which generated an estimated 750K USD in company savings per year.
• Created new tools for enhancing developer and business productivity, resulting in a net savings of 8 hours of developer time and 15 hours of nontechnical work per week.
• Designed new alarming systems for team- maintained services to increase system stability.

Phd, Computer Science

Ms, Computer Science

Ba, Philosophy, Political Science