Claudia Hauff
Staff Research Scientist at Spotify
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolClaudia Hauff is a Staff Research Scientist at Spotify with 12 years of experience specializing in information retrieval and applied NLP, blending research rigor with production-focused engineering. She spent a decade as faculty at Delft University of Technology, where she led a team of PhD students, taught web technologies, and secured competitive research funding. At Spotify she holds an IC research role while also managing a small group of researchers, translating search research into real-world product improvements. Her academic roots (PhD in Information Retrieval from University of Twente) underpin a strong publication and mentoring track record, while her part-time academic ties keep her connected to emerging IR methods. Known for a deep focus on search systems, she balances curiosity-driven exploration with pragmatic deployment — often surfacing subtle user-facing improvements that large-scale systems overlook. Based in Delft, she combines European academic leadership with hands-on industry impact.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Retrieval, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Retrieval at University of TwenteDiplom (BSc+MSc equivalent), Computer Science, Diplom (BSc+MSc equivalent), Computer Science at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Github Skills (65)
annotations10
datasets10
dialogue-systems10
labeling10
conversation10
exams10
semantic-segmentation10
nodejs10
jekyll10
conversational-agents10
javascript9
bounding-box9
training-data9
nlp9
computer-vision9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chauff/cse1500-demo-code
Sep 2020 - Oct 2024
Small but complete code examples for CSE1500.
Contributions:1 PR, 34 pushes, 1 issue in 4 years 1 month
java
chauff/edx-analysis
Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:40 commits, 33 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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