Brendan Duncan

About

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at UCSD, where I work with professors Julian McAuley and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick on research in machine learning and natural language processing. Earlier, I worked with Professor Charles Elkan on machine learning applications to economic data, but took a leave from my PhD to work in industry. During this period, I worked as head data scientist at Fliptop—a startup that built data science solutions for sales and marketing teams—until Fliptop was acquired by LinkedIn.

I earned an MS from Stanford University and a BS from UCSD. I am originally from the wine country in Northern California, and my first job in high school was working in a wine lab.

When I get the chance, I get out on the ocean. Either surfing the waves near campus or crewing for sailboat races in the area.

Contact

baduncan@eng.ucsd.edu

707-484-7843

Publications

• Nowcasting with Numerous Candidate Predictors, Brendan Duncan and Charles Elkan, ECML 2014
• Probabilistic Modeling of a Sales Funnel to Prioritize Leads, Brendan Duncan and Charles Elkan, KDD 2015

Filed Patents

• System and Method for Full Funnel Modeling for Sales Lead Prioritization, Brendan Duncan, March 16, 2015.
• System and Method for Using Marketing Automation Activity Data for Lead Prioritization and Marketing Campaign Optimization, Brendan Duncan, June 30, 2015.
• System and Method for Lead Prioritization Based on Results from Multiple Modeling Methods, Dan Chiao, Brendan Duncan, Liang-Yu, June 30, 2015.

Invited Talks

• Modeling a Sales Funnel and Lead Behavior for Predictive Lead Scoring, Big Data for B2B Marketing and Sales Workshop, IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2015, October 29, 2015.