Brendan Duncan, Ph.D.

Brendan Duncan, PhD

Brendan specializes in machine learning, recommender systems, and natural language processing.

Duncan, B., Kallumadi, S., Berg-Kirkpatrick, T., and McAuley, J., 2023, October. MAWI Rec: Leveraging Severe Weather Data in Recommendation. RecSys 2024. Bari, Italy.
Duncan, B., Kallumadi, S., Berg-Kirkpatrick, T., and McAuley, J., 2023, May. Jointly modeling products and resource pages for task-oriented recommendation. In Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (WWW ’23 Companion). Austin, Texas, USA.
Duncan, B., 2015, October. Modeling a Sales Funnel and Lead Behavior for Predictive Lead Scoring. Invited talk at Big Data for B2B Marketing and Sales Workshop, IEEE International Conference on Big Data. Santa Clara, California.
Duncan, B.A. and Elkan, C.P., 2015, August. Probabilistic modeling of a sales funnel to prioritize leads. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (pp. 1751-1758). Sydney, Australia.
Duncan, B. and Elkan, C., 2014, September. Nowcasting with numerous candidate predictors. In Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (pp. 370-385). Springer. Nancy, France.

Brendan Presenting research to Lowe’s CIO Seemantini Godbole in June 2023 (Seemantini was awarded CIO of the year in 2020 and 2023)

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

Brendan Duncan lives in San Diego near UC San Diego’s campus, where he received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D.

When he gets the chance, he likes to go out on the ocean—either surfing the waves near campus or crewing for sailboat races in the area.