Jess Stauth

Dr. Jessica Stauth is the managing director of portfolio management and research at Quantopian, a crowd-sourced quantitative investment firm, that inspires talented people from around the world to write investment algorithms. Jess and her team are in charge of selecting the algorithms from the Quantopian community, for the Quantopian portfolio.

Quantopian offers license agreements for algorithms that fit certain investment criteria, and licensing authors are paid based on their strategy's individual performance. Previously, she has worked as an equity quant analyst at the StarMine Corporation and as a Director of Quant Product Strategy for Thomson Reuters prior to joining Quantopian in August of 2013. Jess holds a PhD from UC Berkeley in Biophysics.