Victor Kristof
Co-founder & CEO at DemoSquare
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolVictor Kristof is a founder and CEO with 11 years of experience building ML-driven products, currently leading DemoSquare to automate monitoring and analysis of political and regulatory data for public affairs professionals. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning from EPFL where he developed statistical models and predictive algorithms for political processes, and continued that research as a postdoc and visiting researcher at Columbia. Victor combines deep academic expertise with repeated entrepreneurial execution—he previously built Predikon, Kickoff.ai, and Climpact—bridging research-grade models to production AI platforms. Based in Lausanne, he blends full-stack engineering experience from early roles (including macOS and web development) with domain specialization in political/regulatory intelligence, making him adept at turning complex, noisy policy data into actionable insights.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Year, Exchange Year at Tecnológico de MonterreyMaster of Science (MSc), Communication Systems, Master of Science (MSc), Communication Systems at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
French, Spanish, English, German
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Github Skills (115)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
indy-lab/war-of-words
Feb 2020 - Feb 2021
Data and code for "War of Words: The Competitive Dynamics of Legislative Processes"
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 1 year
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victorkristof/linear-regressions-mixture
Feb 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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