Ann Clifton

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.