Evgeny Stepanov
Distinguished Research Scientist at WISEcode
Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
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Top SchoolEvgeny Stepanov is a Distinguished Research Scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in natural language processing and machine learning, currently leading research at WISEcode. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from the University of Trento and has a strong track record translating academic work—especially in discourse parsing, summarization and spoken language—into industry impact. Over a decade at VUI and multiple roles at the University of Trento, he has moved from hands-on research to managing teams and delivering applied NLP solutions. His background in cognitive science and foreign language education gives him a rare interdisciplinary perspective on language technologies and human-centered design. Known for bridging deep research with product-focused development, he often manages spoken-language tasks across large projects. Based in Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy, he blends European academic rigor with practical leadership in commercial NLP research.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - Incomplete, Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - Incomplete, Cognitive Science at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Information Technology at Università degli Studi di Trento / University of Trento
English, Russian, Turkish, chuvash, Italian
Github Skills (40)
bots10
google-assistant10
bot-framework10
conversations10
conversation9
facebook9
watson9
nlu9
natural-language-processing9
conversational-ai9
rasa9
spacy9
voice9
dialogue-systems9
chatbot9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
esrel/NL2SparQL4NLU
Oct 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 10 pushes in 2 years
esrel/Stylometrics
May 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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