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Career

· Researcher, Natural Language Processing Group, Columbia University2024–
· PhD in Machine Learning and Music Understanding, MIT2001–2005
· MS in Computer Science, Columbia University1999–2001
· Founder, Canopy
· Chief Scientist, CNN
· Senior Research Scientist, Spotify
· Co-founder & CTO, The Echo Nest

Publications (24)

The Million Song Dataset
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference · 2011
1,456
cited
A Large-Scale Evaluation of Acoustic and Subjective Music-Similarity Measures
Computer Music Journal · 2004
401
cited
The Quest for Ground Truth in Musical Artist Similarity
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference · 2002
198
cited
Inferring Descriptions and Similarity for Music from Community Metadata
International Conference on Mathematics and Computing · 2002
147
cited
Singer Identification in Popular Music using Warped Linear Prediction
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference · 2002
140
cited
Combining Musical and Cultural Features for Intelligent Style Detection
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference · 2002
99
cited
Music Personalization at Spotify
ACM Conference on Recommender Systems · 2016
85
cited
Automatic Record Reviews
International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference · 2004
84
cited
Musical query-by-description as a multiclass learning problem
IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing · 2002
51
cited
Echoprint: An Open Music Identification Service
2011
24
cited
Data Integration and Access - The Digital Government Research Center's Energy Data Collection (EDC) Project
Advances in Digital Government · 2002
22
cited
The Echo Nest Musical Fingerprint
2010
21
cited
Semantic rank reduction of music audio
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics · 2003
16
cited
Extracting taxonomic relationships from on-line definitional sources using LEXING
ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries · 2001
15
cited
Learning the meaning of music
2005
15
cited
Learning Word Meanings and Descriptive Parameter Spaces from Music
HLT-NAACL 2003 · 2003
13
cited
Simplifying data access: the energy data collection (EDC) project
Digital Government Research · 2000
11
cited
Music retrieval from everything
Multimedia Information Retrieval · 2010
10
cited
Learning auditory models of machine voices
IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics · 2005
6
cited
MUSICALLY EXPRESSIVE SOUND TEXTURES FROM GENERALIZED AUDIO
2003
6
cited
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