Main highlight:

• Well-placed in 3 competitions related to Financial Markets:
  • 2018 – G-Research Financial Forecasting Challenge;
  • 2016 – Winton Stock Market Challenge;
  • 2017 – Two Sigma Financial Modeling Challenge;

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Specific information:

• 1st place in the “Kobe Bryant Shot Selection” Challenge against 1200 people:
  • https://www.kaggle.com/c/kobe-bryant-shot-selection/leaderboard

• 1st place in the “Brazilian Knowledge Discovery in Databases competition 2017” against 46 people:
  • https://www.kaggle.com/c/can-i-make-a-wish-detecting-shooting-stars/leaderboard

• 1st place in the “SPRLNaiveBayesFAST” Challenge against 24 people:
  • https://www.kaggle.com/c/sprlnaivebayesfast/leaderboard

• 2nd place in the “G-Research Financial Forecasting Challenge” against 406 people:
  • • https://financialforecasting.gresearch.co.uk/leaderboard

• 2nd place in the “Winton Stock Market” Challenge against 832 people:
  • https://www.kaggle.com/c/the-winton-stock-market-challenge/leaderboard

• 21st place in the “Santa Gift Matching Challenge” Challenge against 464 people:
  • https://www.kaggle.com/c/santa-gift-matching/leaderboard

• Merit based Grant:
  • Brazilian National Council for Scientific & Technological Development (CNPq);
  • Research in High-Frequency Trading.

• Graduate Fellowships: Merit-based fellowship, CNPq:
  • One-year, Postdoctoral research at Brunel University London (UK);
  • One-year, Postdoctoral research at University of São Paulo (Brazil);
  • Two-years, Ph.D. research;
  • Two-years, master’s research.