Jake Hofman
Senior Principal Researcher
About
Jake Hofman is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City (opens in new tab), where his work in computational social science involves applications of statistics and machine learning to large-scale social data. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a member of the Microeconomics and Social Systems group at Yahoo! Research. Jake is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, where he has designed and taught classes on a number of topics ranging from biological physics to applied machine learning. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University and a PhD in Physics from Columbia University.
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