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Ann Clifton is a highly experienced research scientist with a strong background in deep content understanding models, neural sequence to sequence models, and natural language processing. Currently serving as a Staff Research Scientist at Spotify since February 2019, Ann leads initiatives focused on leveraging knowledge from extensive audio and text data. Prior experience includes a role as a Research Scientist at Amazon, where work centered on scalable models and reinforcement learning, as well as academic positions at Simon Fraser University, which encompassed research and teaching in computational linguistics and programming. Ann’s research contributions also include an internship at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, focusing on machine translation and domain adaptation. Ann holds a PhD and MSc in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University and a BA in Linguistics from Reed College.
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Spotify is an audio and media streaming service that hosts music, podcasts and tv shows. Founded in 2008, Spotify has grown to one of the largest streaming platforms in the world, offering over 70 million tracks to its 360+ million users across 170+ markets. They are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with offices in over a dozen countries. Spotify’s mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity—by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by it. Spotify helps users to discover, manage, and share music on their phone, computer or tablet by browsing through the collections of friends, artists, and celebrities, by creating a radio station, or by curating their own playlists. A leader in revenue generation for the music industry, over 1,000 artists generated over $1 million on Spotify in 2021, 450 generations more than $2 million, and 130 generated over $5 million. Spotify also paid out over $1 billion dollars to publishing rights holders (songwriters and producers) in 2021.