Jure joined the department in September 2009. Jure is also working as the Chief Scientists at Pinterest, where he is focusing on machine learning problems. He co-founded of a machine learning startup Kosei, which was acquired by Pinterest. In 2008/09, Jure was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University working with Jon Kleinberg and Dan Huttenlocher. he completed his Ph.D. in Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Christos Faloutsos in 2008. Jure did his undergraduate degree in computer science at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2004. He also works with the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.