Bio
Eric Bieschke is Pandora’s Chief Scientist and runs playlist engineering for the leading internet radio service. As the second employee to join Pandora in 2000, he built the initial prototypes for the playlist algorithms, which are now deployed to provide the best personalized radio experience to more than 200 million registered users. With a powerful combination of more than 13 years of human music analysis in the Music Genome Project and proprietary playlist technology, Eric leads a team of data scientists, recommendation system specialists and engineers to take these billions of musicological data points and listener insights to figure out how to deliver the right track to the right listener at the right time. With immense scale and a colossal pool of data – Eric and his team optimally combine content-based recommendations, collective intelligence, and large scale machine learning to deliver the best personalized radio experience.
