About

Sean Cantrell is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify, with a passion for utilizing his skills in the rapidly growing AI space to develop products that touch people's lives. With 17 years of experience, Sean has a strong background in mathematical modeling of all forms, and applies a deeply interdisciplinary approach to all of his work. He is a physicist by training, an entrepreneur, and a data scientist specializing in deep learning and natural language processing. Despite being in the private sector, Sean's academic background remains a significant part of his work, and he actively engages in and publishes deep learning research as his passion. Sean has worked with several companies in the past, including signos and resolute.ai, where he led the deep learning, algorithm, and general AI R&D efforts. His R&D efforts comprise developing prototype neural networks, approximate nearest neighbors search with O(1) complexity, novel locality-preserving hashing algorithms, and more. He has also used GGN-based language models and ANN search to create a semantic search engine using NLU. Sean's general duties include staying abreast of SotA research, implementing as necessary, solving ML problems as the need arises, consulting with customers to lead sales-driven product creation, and collaborating with marketing. Sean's education history includes a Ph.D. in Particle Theory from The Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. and B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Virginia. Sean's tech stack includes ML, Deep Learning, Research Scientist, AI, NLP, Data Scientist, Search, NLU, language models, Neural Networks, and more. With relevant experience of 6.62 years, Sean is a highly skilled and experienced professional in the field of machine learning engineering.