Spotify
Sonia Bhaskar is a seasoned expert in machine learning and data science, currently serving as a Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Spotify since July 2020, overseeing three teams focused on recommendations. Previously, Sonia held the position of Staff Machine Learning Engineer, specializing in personalization and customer lifetime value. Prior experience includes a role as a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix from June 2016 to April 2020, where efforts were concentrated on streaming science and algorithms. Early in academia, Sonia worked as a Research Assistant at Stanford University from September 2012 to January 2016, with a focus on matrix completion, recommendation systems, and healthcare analytics. Sonia earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (2009-2015) and a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and Finance from Princeton University (2005-2009).
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Spotify
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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.