David Jurgens
About
David Jurgens is an associate professor jointly in the School of Information and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He holds a PhD from the University of California Los Angeles and was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and prior at McGill University. His research combines natural language processing, social psychology, and data science to discover, explain and predict human behavior in large social systems. His research has been published in top computational social science and natural language processing venues including PNAS, WWW, ACL, ICWSM, EMNLP, and others. His work has won the Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Science, Cialdini Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, best paper at ICWSM and W-NUT, best paper nomination at ACL and Web Science, and has been featured in news outlets such as the BBC, Time, MIT Technology Review, New Scientist, and Forbes. How he got there: Before joining UMSI, David was a postdoctoral scholar, jointly in the the Stanford NLP and SNAP Groups under Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec and Dan McFarland. Prior, he ventured beyond the wall to the cold regions of Montreal (don't let the idyllic summers fool you) and was a postdoctoral scholar at McGill University in the Network Dynamics group with Derek Ruths. Before finishing his PhD, he was a research scientist at the Linguistics Computing Laboratory at Sapienza University of Rome under Roberto Navigli. During his PhD, he was concurrently a visiting researcher at the Information and Systems Science Lab at HRL Laboratories. After trips abroad and to Malibu, he received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles under Michael Dyer. Early in his career before he discovered you could study language and people, he received his BA in Philosophy and Political Science and an MS in Computer Science on Computer Vision under Robert Pless from Washington University in St. Louis.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Road extraction from motion cues in aerial video
Year: 2004
Citations: 19
Venue: Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international workshop on Geographic
Latest Recorded Paper
Beyond Consensus: Perspectivist Modeling and Evaluation of Annotator Disagreement in NLP
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.09065
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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