Primary Job Title Principal Scientist Primary Organization Google
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Douglas Eck is a Research Scientist at Google working in the areas of music and machine learning. Currently he is leading Magenta, a Google Brain project to generate music, video, images and text using deep learning and reinforcement learning. A main goal of Magenta is to better understanding how AI can enable artists and musicians to express
themselves in innovative new ways. Before Magenta, Doug led the Google Play Music search and recommendation team. Before joining Google in 2010, Doug was an Associate Professor in Computer Science at University of Montreal (MILA lab) where he worked on expressive music performance and automatic tagging of music audio.
