Alex T
- Research Program Mentor
MS Master of Science
Expertise
Machine learning/ Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Data Science, Signal Processing, Wireless Communications,
Project ideas
Project ideas are meant to help inspire student thinking about their own project. Students are in the driver seat of their research and are free to use any or none of the ideas shared by their mentors.
Spotify Music Recommendation System
Create a Nearest Neighbor recommendation algorithm in Python to predict a playlist given an input song a user likes. This project would involve: • Harvesting a massive dataset of songs from Spotify via a developer account • Vectorizing and cleaning song metadata into feature library with Pandas DataFrames • Implementing ‘lazy’ learning algorithm for playlist generation • Experimentation with distance and similarity functions • Assess model performance by evaluating a test sample of users like their generated playlists