Melody is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Netflix, where she has been tasked with teaching deep neural networks how we tell good stories. For most of her previous (adult) life, she was an academic researcher in Cognitive Science, where she was awarded the Glushko Dissertation Prize and the Marr Prize for her work on information theoretic approaches to natural language grammars. Prior research affiliations include the Berkeley Institute of Data Science, Indiana University, the University of Tuebingen, & Stanford University.