Bio

Kent Hippler is a PhD student in the Decision and Risk Analysis (DARA) Group in Stanford's Department of Management Science and Engineering, advised by Dr. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell. His current research focuses on risk attitudes in AI Decision Support Systems.

Prior to pursuing his PhD, Kent served as a Nuclear Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy, supporting three western Pacific deployments aboard the USS Anchorage and USS Theodore Roosevelt. He later worked as a Systems Engineer at Maxar Technologies and a Software Engineer at Amazon. Kent holds a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Florida (2016) and an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford (2025), where he worked with the Language Data and Reasoning Lab under the advisement of Dr. Amin Saberi.

Education & Certifications

  • M.S., Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering (2025)
  • B.S., University of Florida, Nuclear Engineering (2016)

Contact

  • Academic
    khippler@stanford.edu
    University - Student Department: Management Science and Engineering Position: Graduate

Additional Info

Lab Affiliations

Work Experience

  • Nuclear Surface Warfare Officer, US Navy (8/1/2016 - 3/1/2022)

    Location

    USA

  • Systems Production Engineer, Maxar Technologies (4/1/2022 - 12/1/2022)

    Location

    Mountain View, CA

  • Software Engineering Intern, Amazon (6/1/2024 - 9/14/2024)

    Location

    Seattle, WA

All Publications

  • StorySage: Conversational Autobiography Writing Powered by a Multi-Agent Framework Talaei, S., Li, M., Grover, K., Hippler, J. K., Yang, D., Saberi, A. arXiv (preprint). 2025
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