Nediyana Daskalova

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About me

I lead Human-AI interaction research at Suno in New York. We are building novel ways people can create music and express themselves with the help of AI. Previously, I was a Research Scientist at Spotify and before that, I completed my PhD in Computer Science, at Brown University, as part of Jeff Huang' Human-Computer Interaction lab .

Updates

March 2024: I joined Suno! We are looking for amazing people to join us in building the future of music!

Publications

Self-E: Smartphone- Supported Guidance for Customizable Self-Experimentation.
Nediyana Daskalova, Eindra Kyi*, Kevin Ouyang*, Arthur Borem, Sally Chen, Sung Hyun Park, Nicole Nugent, and Jeff Huang. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021) PDF - Video
SleepBandits: Guided Flexible Self-Experiments for Sleep
Nediyana Daskalova, Jina Yoon, Lisa Wang, Cintia Araujo, Guillermo Beltran, Nicole Nugent, John McGeary, Joseph Jay Williams, Jeff Huang. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020) PDF - Video
Investigating the Effectiveness of Cohort-Based Sleep Recommendations
Nediyana Daskalova, Bongshin Lee, Jeff Huang, Chester Ni, Jessica Lundin. (Ubicomp 2018). PDF
Cohorts of Self-Experimenters: Lessons Learned from Personal Informatics Self-Experiments
Nediyana Daskalova, Karthik Desingh, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Diane Schulze, Heather Sha, and Jeff Huang. (Ubicomp 2017). PDF
"If a person is emailing you, it just doesn't make sense": Exploring Changing Consumer Behaviors in Email
Frank Bentley, Nediyana Daskalova, Nazanin Andalibi. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). PDF
SleepCoacher: A Personalized Automated Self-Experimentation System for Sleep Recommendations
Nediyana Daskalova, Danae Metaxa-Kakavouli, Adrinne Tran, Nicole Nugent, Julie Boergers, John McGeary, and Jeff Huang. ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST 2016). PDF - Video - Source Code
Webgazer: Scalable webcam eyetracking using user interactions
Alexandra Papoutsaki, Patsorn Sangkloy, James Laskey, Nediyana Daskalova, Jeff Huang, and James Hays. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2016). PDF - Website
Informing Design of Suggestion and Self-Monitoring Tools through Participatory Experience Prototypes
Nediyana Daskalova, Nathalie Ford, Ann Hu, Kyle Moorehead, Ben Wagnon, and Janet Davis. The 9th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (Persuasive 2014). PDF