Gustavo Penha
Research Scientist at Spotify
Delft, South Holland, United States
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Top SchoolGustavo Penha is a research scientist at Spotify with a PhD from TU Delft and 11 years of experience at the intersection of information retrieval, recommender systems, NLP, and machine learning. He focuses on connecting people with content and creators by modeling information needs across the full information-seeking journey and designing/evaluating systems that support it. His work spans both applied industry problems—improving retrievability for music, podcasts, and books—and foundational research, evidenced by publications on Google Scholar and a public research-facing blog. Gustavo blends hands-on experimentation from internships at Spotify and Amazon with leadership in ML projects earlier in his career, bringing product-aware rigor to research. Based in Delft, he actively shares tools and insights via GitHub and Linktree, reflecting a pragmatic commitment to reproducible research and real-world impact.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at UFMG - Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisTechnician, Industrial Informatics, Technician, Industrial Informatics at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas GeraisDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Delft University of TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (29)
factorization9
nlp9
recommender8
svd8
ranking8
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
transformers7
probing7
bert7
music7
matrix7
retrieval6
ggplot5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Guzpenha/transformers_cl
Dec 2019 - Oct 2020
Code for the paper "Curriculum Learning Strategies for IR: An Empirical Study on Conversation Response Ranking" at ECIR'20
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 9 months
nlpcurriculumconversationrankingcurriculum-learning
Guzpenha/MANtIS
Aug 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 24 pushes, 2 comments in 1 year 8 months
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