ABOUT ME
Mathematics has been my passion ever since I was in the 3rd grade. Growing up in Romania, the math taught in school was very theoretical. During middle school and high school I trained hard for regional, national and international math competitions.
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When I arrived in the US for college, I wanted to be able to apply math to real world problems. It is incredibly rewarding when one creates a model based on assumptions of how they think that the world behaves and to see that it actually works. This encouraged me to do a Bachelor's in Actuarial Mathematics and a Master's in Financial Mathematics both in 4 years. However, I was still willing to learn how to apply math to a wider variety of real world problems. This encouraged me to obtain a Ph.D. in Statistics and Applied Probability.
EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Bayesian Statistics
Especially multivariate.
2014-2019
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D. in Statistics
High-Dimensional Tensors
Especially in Statistics
Machine Learning
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Bayesian Statistics in Finance
2010-2014
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
B.S. in Actuarial Mathematics, minor in Business
2012-2014
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
M.S. in Financial Mathematics