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EMPLOYMENT
  • May 2011- present Independent retail trader.
  • Nov 2010 - April 2011 Quant analyist and trading systems in a Hedge Fund
  • 2007- Oct 2010 Consultant, Financial and Statistical Modeling, Noustat S.r.l Milano
  • 2003-2006 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  • 2001-2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, Utrecht University, The Netherlands


    EDUCATION
  • 1997-2001 Ph.D. in High Energy Physics (Elementary Particles) , Torino.
  • 1992-1997 Laurea in Theoretical Physics, 110/110 Cum Laude, Milano.
  • 1987-1992 Liceo-Ginnasio Classico , Como [Marks: 60/60].


    HONORS
  • Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship of the Human Resources and Mobility Activities European Community, 2004 and 2005.
  • Lady Davies Fellowship, The Hebrew University, 2004.
  • Golda Meir Fellowship, The Hebrew University, 2006.


    SKILLS

    Finance
  • Design and implementation of automated TRADING SYSTEMS: stocks, vanilla options, ETF.
  • Risk Management: market VaR (RiskMetrics), CreditVaR ( KMV, CreditMetrics, CreditRisk+)
  • Monte Carlo, finite difference methods, matrix models for pricing of derivatives
  • For each of the topics above : development of extract, transform, load (ETL) development tools from/to databases.
    Data Mining and forecast
  • Forecast models (linear and non linear models: autoregressive, moving average, ARIMA, GARCH models, kernel regression, neural networks, ).
  • Neural networks, wavelet filters, clustering, decision trees, association rules, Bayesian models, multi agent models.
    Hardware and Software
  • Languages: Basic, Java, C, C++, C#
  • DB: Access, Oracle, Sql Server (Reporting Services , Business Intelligence (MDX) , Integration Services and DataMining (MDX)), ADO.NET, LINQ
  • Functional Programming: F#, R, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple.
  • Web: ASP.NET, JavaScript, HTML, XML.
  • Hardware: Construction of Micro Controllers (Arduino), Lego NXT Robots
  • Graphics: Processing, openFrame.
  • Varia: parallel C#.


    This resume was last updated: August 2011