Senior Data Scientist
LinkedIn
A senior data scientist at LinkedIn, Michael Conover develops machine-learning infrastructure that leverages the relationships and behavior of hundreds of millions of individuals. He has a Ph.D. from Indiana University in complex systems analysis with a focus on information propagation in large-scale social networks. His research interests run towards understanding the political process and the structure of economic opportunity, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Science, and MIT Technology Review and on National Public Radio.