He is currently working on soundtrack classification and audio event detection. Before Google he worked as the first Software Engineer at Lyric Semiconductors, building tools to aid the development of hardware accelerators for AI. On the side, Shawn travels the world teaching Lindy Hop and blues dancing and playing in swing and blues bands. Long ago Shawn graduated from the University of Rochester with a BA in Computer Science and half of a degree from the Eastman School of Music.