Daniel Tunkelang

Welcome to my personal home page, which I update sporadically.

                                   

If you've come this far, you're most likely looking for one of the following:

You can find most of my publicly shared talks on SlideShare. My Google tech talk on Reconsidering Relevance is on YouTube.

A Brief History

After graduating from MIT with degrees in computer science and math and then completing a PhD at CMU, I joined the founding team of Endeca, where I served as Chief Scientist. I then worked at Google to improve local search quality. As of December 2010, I live in Mountain View, where I am a Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn. We are growing rapidly, and always looking for rock stars! Please contact me if you are interested in full-time or internship positions.

Conferences and Workshops

I am a co-founder and member of the steeting committee for the workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR), held annually since 2007. I'm also co-chairing the CIKM 2011 Industry Track.

Some other conferences and workshops in which I've participated:

SSM 2010: Co-chair

SIGIR 2009: Organized Industry Track

SIGMOD 2009: Design for Interaction

Information Seeking Support Systems Workshop (sponsored by National Science Foundation)

ECIR 2008 (Industry Day): Guided Summarization

CIKM 2008: Program Committee for Information Retrieval Track

WWW 2008: Program Committee for Industrial Practice and Experience Track

SIGIR 2007 (Industry Event): Information Access and the User Experience

SIGIR 2006 (Workshop on Faceted Search): Dynamic Category Sets

CIKM 2004: Processing Search Queries in a Distributed Environment (with Fritz Knabe)

SIAM Data Mining 2002 (Workshop on Clustering High Dimensional Data): Making the Nearest Neighbor Meaningful

Finally, I have participated in a number of industry conferences in the areas of enterprise search and text analytics.

Graph Layout

Before discovering the joys of search, I worked on graph layout (aka graph drawing), which can generously be called information visualization.

You can find my demonstration applet for JIGGLE (Java Interactive Graph Layout Environment) here, my dissertation here, and the source code here.

The source code is available for both non-commercial and commercial use; I only ask that you acknowledge the use of the software and let me know that you are using it. Besides, you might actually get me to help you with it that way!

You might also be interested my earlier paper describing a practical approach to drawing undirected graphs.

Contact Information

Email:dtunkelang at gmail dot com
LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/dtunkelang
Twitter:http://twitter.com/dtunkelang

Ben Tunkelang, 1929-2008, R.I.P.

More information about the Tunkelang name here.