Scott Stephenson

Venture Partner

Pioneer Fund

Dec 2018 - Current (7 years 7 months)

Co-Founder, CEO

Deepgram

Aug 2015 - Current (10 years 11 months)

Deepgram builds accurate, fast, scalable, and affordable large scale Voice AI for speech recognition, generation, and AI Agents. Available as an API running in the public cloud, private cloud, or on-premise. We are the leading Voice AI platform, serving over 1,000 voice applications worldwide. The Deepgram products learn your company name, product names, jargon, follow directions, speak in various languages, and learn over time, leading to unparalleled accuracy and realism in conversation.

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of California Davis

Aug 2014 - Dec 2015 (1 year 5 months)

I worked on the Large Underground Xenon Detector (LUX/LZ), a large and sensitive Dark Matter detector, and in developing the Davis Xenon (DaX) dual-phase liquid xenon detector program at UC Davis. LUX/LZ is a large scale deep underground Dark Matter detector located in a former gold mine in Lead, SD. A team of hundreds of scientists and engineers built and operate the LUX detector to probe the cross-section of WIMP-nucleon interactions (e.g. detecting when a Dark Matter particle hits a normal, everyday atom). The LUX detector is being upgraded from several hundred kilos to multi-ton scale to create LZ. This collaboration represents the largest and most sensitive effort to date in directly detecting dark matter. (http://luxdarkmatter.org/)

PhD Graduate Student

University of Michigan

Jul 2010 - Dec 2014 (4 years 6 months)

I built deep underground Dark Matter particle detectors (detector design, construction, operation, and data analysis) for the Particle and Astrophysical Xenon (PandaX) collaboration and the Michigan Xenon (MiX) experiment. PandaX is a large dual-phase xenon Dark Matter detector located near Xichang, China. The detector was built and tested Shanghai Jiao Tong University, then deployed in Jinping lab—the deepest lab in the world. PandaX-I probed the low mass WIMP-nucleon cross-section parameter space in search of Dark Matter. (http://www.pandax.org/) MiX is a dual-phase liquid xenon particle detector located at University of Michigan. MiX demonstrated excellent energy and spatial resolution and operated stably for very long periods of time.

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