Srivatsav Pyda is the Head of Music Technology at Hook, the artist-first, AI social music app that empowers fans to easily create authorized short-form remixes of popular music for use on social media. Pyda is passionate about music and enhancing creativity through technology. At Hook, he is building new creative tools that empower artists of all backgrounds and experience levels. Prior to joining Hook, he worked with large language models and conducted research on probabilistic machine learning model-building algorithms applied to large networks.