Daniel Tunkelang works at Google. Before that, he was the Chief Scientist and a co-founder of Endeca, a leading vendor of search applications for enterprises.
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. He has 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.