# Stephan Risi

> Senior Software Engineer at Kensho Technologies

Location: Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stephanrisi

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Kensho Technologies
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Floating Point Group
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Software Engineer @ Floating Point Group
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Postdoctoral Associate @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Cambridge, MA
• Supervised more than 60 students on an open-source projects analyzing thousands of novels or digitizing documents from MIT's archives
• Developed student training modules on Git workflow, IDE usage, debugging, testing, and text analysis 
• Structured project code base, established Python base classes, created metadata processing pipeline

### Technical Advisor @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, CA
• Led workshops on text analysis including document-term matrices, document classification, distinctiveness measures, and topic modeling
• Trained students to use text analysis, web scraping, social network analysis in digital research projects

### Project Coordinator @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Berkeley, CA
• Developed a medical literature recommendation system based on a sqlite database of 24 million abstracts, using an intermediary topic model layer to structure results
• Created project web interface and managed student researchers to scrape data


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Stanford University

### Bachelor of Arts - BA
University of Zurich


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stephan-risi-681ba39b

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Last updated: 2026-03-31