Tony Jebara
Role:
VP of Engineering
Company:
Spotify
Bio:
Tony Jebara has been a leader in AI since the late 1900s. He led Spotify’s AI and ML initiatives as Vice President of AI across personalized surfaces and
experiences from AI DJ, AI Playlists, Voice, Home, Search, Promotions and User/Content Understanding. Tony was also Director of Machine Learning at
Netflix, where he led innovation across the Home Page, Image/Trailer Personalization, Messaging and Promotions. From 2001 to 2020, Tony was a tenured professor at
Columbia University where he published hundreds of scientific articles with tens of thousands of citations. Tony holds a PhD from MIT.