Dinners With Interesting People 10/5/2025

This time it's lunch! Our featured guest, Max Roling graduated from Penn in 2021, and since then, he's been working in several interesting jobs at Morgan Stanley in NYC.

During the 2020-2021 academic year, I co-supervised Max and three other Penn undergrads in their ESE Senior Design project StockSense, which used NLP and machine learning to analyze the sentiment of earnings calls in order to predict stock movements. As you can see from their final report
https://tinyurl.com/bdbw5uf4
this project involved a complex and team-based process of design and implementation. And as you can also see from the video of their final presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kNRRXKvwVA
the result was extremely impressive.