Mounia Lalmas
Steering Recommendations with Language: Rethinking Context at Spotify
Mounia Lalmas is Senior Director of Research and Head of Tech Research, Personalisation at Spotify, where she leads a team advancing the science and technology of personalization, spanning search, recommendation, user engagement, and evaluation. Her current focus is on how Generative AI transforms large-scale retrieval and recommendation, bridging foundational research and real-world impact. Before Spotify, she led research teams at Yahoo and held academic positions at the University of Glasgow and Queen Mary University of London. She has authored over 270 publications, served as Program Co-Chair for SIGIR, WWW, WSDM, and CIKM, and delivered keynotes at venues including RecSys and The Web Conference.
