Alex Papanicolaou is a Lead Quant AI/ML based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience applying data science and machine learning to production-grade financial systems. He has led technology and data science teams from early-stage startups to a Stanford spinoff, building explainable deep learning and high-performance computing pipelines for mortgage and fixed-income markets. Alex combines a PhD in Computational and Mathematical Engineering with hands-on quant development, risk modeling, and real-time analytics, translating academic research into scalable products. Notably, he has held dual CTO and Chief Data Scientist roles at infima, demonstrating both technical leadership and domain expertise in the $15 trillion mortgage sector. His background includes market microstructure work and signal-processing approaches to trading analytics, giving him an unusually broad toolkit across research, engineering, and product.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D, Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Ph.D, Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University
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