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California, United States

Oakland, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca, Us

Lead scientist for the For You screen personalization in Pandora, the portal to Pandora's catalog of music and podcasts.- Working on initiatives such as Top Module selection and For You personalization for new registered users.- Collaborating and coordinating with Engineering, Product and Design.- Mentoring a group of scientists working on the For You personalization.Ideated and co-developed Pandora Playback, a personalized end-of-the year retrospective to Pandora listeners.- From an internal personal hackathon project to a fully fledged product thanks to a tiger team collaboration with back-end and front-end Engineering, Product, Design and Marketing.- Designed and implemented the data pipelines for the user stats, as well as a novel, personalized timeline aggregation of listening.- Designed and implemented two personalized playlists for Pandora listeners (What You Loved and More To Love).

Oakland, Ca, Us

- Science lead for metadata representation of content at Pandora. Driven forward overall descriptive metadata strategy which impacts initiatives such as search, voice and podcasts.- Devised, designed and implemented personalized playlists for Pandora premium listeners. From ideation to the implementation of the data pipeline, to production ready.- Designed and implemented Knowledge-based recommendation strategies for the key strategic initiative of Podcasts.- Stepped up to help engineering develop a web tool for music analysts, which enables curators create better listening experiences. Responsibilities included learning AngularJS in a very short period of time and implementing the front-end part of the tool. - Mentored fellow scientists and science interns. - Improved technical skills: Scala/Spark, Hive/Presto, PyData stack- Acquired technical skills: AngularJS

Oakland, Ca, Us

- Designed and implemented playlist recommendation systems at scale, helping millions of Pandora listeners discover new music. - Part of the team that reshaped Pandora's music catalog for the launch and continued growth of Pandora Premium, including content matching, content grouping and automation of curation processes. - Leading the design and implementation of the Knowledge-base representation model for Pandora's music catalog, which helps boosting Pandora’s music classification and recommendation systems. - Developed internal tools that bolster efficiency and productivity of fellow scientists, by enabling them to prototype and iterate quickly. - Acquired and/or improved technical skills: Scala/Spark/Hive, PyData stack.

Coral Gables, Fl, Us

- Extracting knowledge from unstructured data, for music recommendation, artist similarity, etc.􏰃- Analyzing and modeling the evolution of research communities.

Barcelona, Catalonia, Es

- Developed methods to extract semantic information from unstructured data. - Lead the team in charge of the Arab-Andalusian music, as part of the EU funded project CompMusic.- Tutorial on music automatic tagging at ISMIR 2013.- Co-organized the Music Hack Day, Barcelona (one of the most successful and long-lived hackathons around music technology) from 2010 to 2014.

Barcelona, Catalonia, Es

Barcelona, Barcelona, Es

- Taught advanced topics on audio and music processing to MSc students in Sound and Music Computing; and programming and graph theory to students of the Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.- Supervised the final degree project of two Computer Science students.

Porto, Pt

Research stay, as a requirement for obtaining the European mention in the Doctorate studies.The research stay was funded by the Ministerio de Educación in Spain.Applied research tasks:􏰃 - Designed and developed a new method for uncovering semantic facets of music tags.􏰃 - Helped to build a hybrid music recommender system that combines usage and audio content.

European independent Software Testing and Quality Assuranceservices company. Internship, collective agreement with Pompeu Fabra University.􏰃 - As part of a development team, I worked on the second version of a proprietary software tool that performed system testing of software from external companies.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Information, Communication And Audiovisual Media Technologies

Master'S Degree, Information, Communication And Audiovisual Media Technologies

Engineer'S Degree, Computer Science