Dr Douglas de Jager Department of Computing, Imperial College London, 180 Queen's Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom

Research: 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: He is a co-founder of BytePlay Limited, a B2B provider of Web search and syndication technologies. Clients include DMGT, Fish4, Zoopla and PropertyIndex. Founded in April 2006, BytePlay is equity-backed by three of Europe's leading early-stage venture capital companies: The Accelerator Group, Arts Alliance and SAMOS. He is a founding investor in two other Web companies. One is in stealth mode. The other is PlayFire, a social network for gamers, which subsequently 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. Background: PhD Computing (Imperial College, London) [pdf] MSc Computing Science (Imperial College, London) MA Mathematics and Philosophy (Worcester College, Oxford) Bookmarks: Research Startups