Jake Hofman

Research Area: Machine Learning, Econ and Social Sys
Location: Yahoo! Research New York

Profile

Jake is a member of the Human Social Dynamics group in New York. His work involves data-driven modeling of complex systems, focusing on applications of machine learning and statistical inference to large-scale network data. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University and a Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Yahoo! Wins Best Paper Award at KDD 2009 - Yahoo! has earned 12 out of 142 total accepted papers this year and the Best Paper Award for "Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics" by Yehuda Koren.
  • New Technique’s Gonna Find Out Who’s Spammy or Nice - You are how you e-mail: A new technique can tell people apart using only the timestamps in their Sent folders.