Dr. Matthew Cooper is a senior staff machine learning engineer at CNN working on recommendations services. He was previously a staff engineer at Mozilla, Inc. working on content recommendation and machine learning applications. He was also principal research scientist and group lead at FX Palo Alto Laboratory. He received the BS, MS, and DSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. His primary focus is interactive multimedia content discovery and information retrieval. His interests include information retrieval, statistical inference, data mining, natural language processing, information theory, and computer vision. Dr. Cooper has authored or co-authored over 70 journal and conference papers and over 40 issued U.S. patents. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Member of the ACM.