Daniel Tunkelang is the Chief Scientist and a co-founder of Endeca, a leading enterprise search vendor.
Endeca, a privately held company founded in 1999, is a leading provider of solutions for e-commerce, enterprise search, and business intelligence. It has 600+ customers serving 250M+ end-users per month include 40+ of Internet Retailer Top 100, and 20%+ of Fortune 500, and 16 of 18 US Intelligence Community members.
Daniel was an undergraduate at MIT, double majoring in math and computer science. He completed a PhD at CMU, where he worked on information visualization. Before joining Endeca’s founding team, he worked at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and AT&T Bell Labs.
Daniel pioneered the annual workshops on human-computer information retrieval and is writing a book on faceted search. He publishes The Noisy Channel, a highly regarded blog about exploratory search and online / social media.
