Pandora, Director of Playlist Engineering

Eric Bieschke runs playlist engineering for Pandora. As one of Pandora's first employees, he built the initial prototypes for the company's playlist algorithms. As the service has grown, the algorithm is now deployed online, on mobile and via CE devices to more than 125 million registered users. To date, these millions of listeners have thumbed more than 11 billion songs while listening to billions of hours of music. Eric works daily on optimally combining content-based recommendations, collective intelligence, and human-machine cooperation in order to provide the best experience for listeners.

Follow Eric on Twitter: @ericbke