General Facts

  • I am able to communicate in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.
  • I have a basic understanding of French, German, Russian and Hebrew.
  • As a teenager, I took violin classes at the Villa-Lobos Music School in Rio de Janeiro.
  • I am also an avid sports practitioner, having learned discipline through many years of martial arts practice.

EDUCATION

  • Masters in Mathematics
    Grade: 9.9 out of 10.0
    2020 - 2022

  • Bachelor Degree in Statistics - Cum Laude (Honors)
    2016 - 2019

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PhD Researcher at VUB (2024 - Present)

  • I am a PhD Researcher doing research in Quantitative Finance at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB in Belgium. My supervisors are prof. Carole Bernard and prof. Steven Vanduffel.

Data Scientist at LabFuzzy (2023 - 2024)

  • LabFuzzy is an applied research laboratory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro within COPPE, the biggest engineering graduate program in Latin America.

Data Scientist at Horus (2022 - 2023)

  • I was responsible for:
    • Developing statistical methodology
    • Implementing machine learning algorithms
    • Automating processes

Quantitative Research (2022 - present)

  • I have developed the following personal projects:
    • Automatically gathering financial data from web sources like Yahoo Finance or Google Finance
    • Using quantitative finance to price options
    • Implementing technical analysis tools for identifying patterns

Teaching Assistant at UFRJ (2018 - 2019)

  • I was a teaching assistant for the Probability Calculus course for three semesters.

Junior Scientific Researcher (2018 - 2019)

  • I was given a scholarship for outstanding performance funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development.

Coding Lab Assistant (2017 - 2018)

  • I worked at the Coding Laboratory of the Department of Mathematics for over a year. My main activities in the lab involved assisting students with coding exercises in Python.

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Brazilian Medalist of the Second International Olympiad on Financial Security in 2022.
  • Awarded Honorable Mention in the 41st Journey of Scientific Initiation in 2019.
  • Finalist for representing the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development Contest in STEM in 2019.
  • Medalist in the Brazilian Olympiad of Astronomy and Astronautics in 2012.

ORGANIZED EVENTS

  • VIII Week of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2019).
  • Undergraduate Seminar on Mathematics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2019).

EVENTS ATTENDED

  • Research in Options (2023).
  • Sao Paulo School of Advanced Science on Singular Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and their Applications (2022).
  • XXV Brazilian School of Probability (2022).
  • XXIV Brazilian School of Probability (2021).
  • XXXII Brazilian Mathematics Colloquium (2021).
  • XXIII Brazilian School of Probability (2020).
  • CRM-PIMS Probability Summer School (online, 2020).
  • XXII Brazilian School of Probability (2019).
  • I Joint Meeting Brazil-France (2019).
  • VII Week of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2018).
  • VI Week of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2017).