Jimmy Lin

Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, Dr. Lin was at the University of Maryland. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in 2004. From 2010-2012, he spent an extended sabbatical at Twitter working on services designed to identify relevant content to users (search, recommendation, etc.) and analytics infrastructure to support data science (Hadoop tools, machine learning libraries, etc.).

His research aims to build tools that help users make sense of large amounts of data. He works at the intersection of information retrieval, natural language processing, and databases, with a focus on large-scale distributed algorithms and infrastructure for data analytics.