Douglas Cole Email & Phone Number

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

I manage a multi-functional team that is focused on building content understanding and recommendation models of podcasts and audiobooks at Spotify. We build custom LLM embedding models for content understand of podcasts and audiobooks as well as near-real-time DNN recommendation models. These models are critical to the search and retrieval stack and power several experiences on the home screen.I also led the effort to launch a model that extracts and surfaces podcast guests from unstructured metadata and a model for generating chapters (segmentation and titles) in podcast episodes.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

I manage a multi-functional team that is focused on building content understanding and recommendation models of podcasts and audiobooks at Spotify. We build custom LLM embedding models for content understand of podcasts and audiobooks as well as near-real-time DNN recommendation models. These models are critical to the search and retrieval stack and power several experiences on the home screen.I also led the effort to launch a model that extracts and surfaces podcast guests from unstructured metadata and a model for generating chapters (segmentation and titles) in podcast episodes.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

I manage a team of Computational Linguists and Research Scientists and we are responsible for the modeling operations of one of Alexa's NLU domains.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I am a linguist in the Applied Modeling and Data Sciences department, working on teaching Alexa how to understand new things.

Iowa City, Iowa, Us

• Trained graduate students on how to elicit implicit knowledge through structured interviews and corpus analysis.• Guided students through the process of making inferences and drawing conclusions from the data.

Iowa City, Iowa, Us

•Gathered language data through structured interviews and ethnographic observation to better understand grammatical structures.•Developed a response time tool that measures the impact of grammatical structures on the way people perceive events.•Independently designed and ran a large-scale behavioral experiment in SE Asia with over 100 participants, limited budget, and tight deadlines.•Worked on interdisciplinary research teams investigating sentence processing and event processing.•Designed a student needs analysis tool and found that student needs did not align with program goals.•Part of a team tasked with redesigning the department-wide curriculum and final exam for ESL Oral Skills in response to my needs analysis study.•Integrated an online tool into the reading curriculum so that students could have individualized vocabulary learning and assessment.

Fort Collins, Colorado, Us

• Designed a qualitative study to uncover peer-support strategies used in Lao university classrooms.• Used observations and structured interviews over a 3-month period.• Developed survey tools to better understand student needs.• Used the results of the multifaceted study to make policy recommendations to the department deans.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Linguistics And Cognitive Science

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Arts (M.A.), International Studies And Tesol