Tony Jebara is Head of AI/ML and Vice President of Engineering at Spotify. He oversees Spotify's AI and Machine Learning strategy and leads the teams that drive Spotify's personalized surfaces and experiences including AI DJ, AI Playlists, Search, Voice, Home, and Strategic Promotions as well as User and Content Understanding. Previously, Tony was director of machine learning at Netflix, where he launched improvements to many of its personalization algorithms. 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.