Dr Douglas de Jager
Department of Computing,
Imperial College London,
180 Queen's Gate,
London, SW7 2BZ,
United Kingdom
| AESOP: |
Dr Douglas de Jager is an external associate of the AESOP research group, Department of Computing, Imperial College London. His research focus is on the application of linear algebraic methods to performance analysis and information retrieval. |
| Publications: |
PageRank: Splitting
Homogeneous Singular Linear Systems of Index One (ICTIR) [pdf] Asynchronous Iterative Solution for State-Based Performance Metrics (SIGMETRICS) Matrix-Vector Splitting for Eigenvector Solution (PASTA) Hypergraph Partitioning for Faster Parallel PageRank Computation (LNCS) [pdf] |
| Presentations: |
Simplifying PageRank - ICTIR, Microsoft Research,
Cambridge, UK [pdf] Deep crawling. Attribute parsing. Universal search. - Google, London, UK [pdf] |
| Teaching: |
Mathematical Methods & Numerical Linear Algebra |
| Commercial: |
During his Ph.D. studies, Dr de Jager achieved the unlikely by starting and successfully selling
a venture-backed software company - completing the sale
five days before graduation. With equity backing from three of
Europe's leading early-stage venture capital
firms—The
Accelerator Group (TAG), SAMOS and
Arts Alliance—the company
provided information retrieval services to the likes of DMGT, Trinity
Mirror, Fish4 and the Evening Standard. Dr de Jager is currently working on his second commercial venture—looking to develop real-time classification approaches for big data. He has started angel investing, and is a founding investor in PlayFire, a social network for gamers. PlayFire recently received series-A investment from Atomico Ventures (the investment fund of Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype), Michael Birch (the founder of Bebo), and Brent Hoberman (the founder of LastMinute). He is also a Seedcamp mentor, and an advisor to several Web startups. |
| Background: |
PhD Computing (Imperial College, London)
[pdf] MSc Computing Science (Imperial College, London) MA Mathematics and Philosophy (Worcester College, Oxford) |
| Bookmarks: |
Research Startups |