Highlights:1. Big 4 audit business season; 2. Working in a research group jointly organized by University of Oxford and MIT with the goal of suppressing symptoms of neurological diseases (Alzheimer's, PD, etc.) by means of a chip implant in the human brain; 3. Founding and managing an e-commerce start-up from scratch.

Skills:financial analysis, banking, machine learning, risk management, mathematics

Goal:Work alongside the world's best financial analysts. Contribute to bridging the gap between Artificial Intelligence and the finance sector, and contribute to building a better and more resilient financial system.

Certification:BA in Mathematics and Philosophy - King's College London Foundations of AI - Caltech (online course on Udacity) Reinforcement Learning - UCL (online course on Coursera) Algorithms - Stanford University (online course on Coursera) CFA candidate FRM candidate

Founder & CEO 06/2018 - current
Galivier Development, , United States
Industry: E-commerce
Founded an e-commerce business that leverages Amazon’s FBA program in order to build physical product brands. Design the Galivier wristwatch brand and produce it in a factory in China, and sell it on the European market. Responsible for everything for timely tax form submission and payment, to VAT registration, to product design and border import procedures etc.
• Sold over 500 Galivier watches within the first six months of starting the business; • Began collaborating with local producers and distributors to expand the online presence of their products.--
Financial Risk Specialist 11/2018 - current
Procredit Bank, Bucharest, United States
Industry: Banking
Manage the institution’s exposure to risk and protect the value of its assets. Identify potential sources of risk and provide hands-on development of risk models involving market, credit and operational risk, assure controls are operating effectively, and provide research and analytical support.
• Contribute to the design of an overall risk management process for the organization; • Mitigate currency risk and monitor developments of default risk and liquidity risk; • Maintain communication with the National Bank of Romania and the ProCredit Holding by creating regular reports detailing key figures, ratios and indices; • Create business continuity plans and present findings to senior management during operational risk committees;--
Data Analyst 11/2018 - current
Upwork, , United States
Industry: Financial Services
I run a small freelancing agency that specializes in data analysis and visualization. Some of our latest projects are 1. analyzing all of the U.S. election data, and 2. designing an automated reporting tool for Facebook ad spend optimization
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Research Assistant 12/2017 - 05/2018
LAIF Science, , United States
Industry: IT & Research
Partook in a research project jointly organized by the University of Oxford and MIT with the purpose of suppressing symptoms of neurological disorders (predominantly Alzheimer’s & PD) by stimulating neural activity in the brain by means of a chip implant. Conducted research on the state of the art best practices behind electrical recording and optical stimulation of neural tissue.
• Designed a reinforcement-learning agent that predicts communication between neurons inside the brain based on a spiking neural network infrastructure.--
Assistant, Financial Services Industry 08/2016 - 05/2017
Deloitte, , United States
Industry: Audit & Consulting
Coordinated in audit of various banks and non-banking financial institutions, including auditing actuarial reports of insurance companies.
Supported the audit of RBNS and IBNR reserves for large insurance companies.--

King's College London 09/2013 - 06/2016
London, UK, , United States
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Mathematics
Minor:Philosophy
Key Mathematics Modules: Elementary Number Theory, Discrete Mathematics, Topology, Theory of Complex Networks, Set Theory, Linear Methods, Partial Differential Equations and Complex Variables Key Philosophy Modules: Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, Aesthetics, Spinoza & Leibniz, Locke & Berkeley, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Psychology

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