Valentin Courgeau
Quantitative Researcher
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolValentin Courgeau is a quantitative researcher and final-year PhD candidate in Mathematical and Computational Statistics based in Paris, with eight years of experience building intraday futures alpha and applied AI systems. He combines a rigorous academic foundation—MSc from Oxford, MRes from UCL, and PhD training at Imperial—with hands-on RL and deep learning research delivered at InstaDeep and hedge funds like Millennium and Qube. His toolkit spans time-series and high-frequency inference, statistical network models, convolutional/LSTM/attention architectures, and probabilistic planning including Soft Actor-Critic, plus production-ready Python and R practices (including an R CRAN package). Comfortable bridging research and engineering, he has built experimental CPU/GPU backends and shipping ML systems in enterprise settings. Notably, his career blends entrepreneurial roots in creative tech with cutting-edge quantitative finance, making him adept at translating complex statistical theory into live trading and decision-making products.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics and Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mathematics and Statistics at Imperial College LondonUniversity College LondonMSc Mathematical and Computational Finance, MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance at University of OxfordPreparatory class for engineer schools. Physics / Mathematics, Preparatory class for engineer schools. Physics / Mathematics at Lycée Sainte-GenevièveBachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at EPFL
English, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
valcourgeau/r-continuous-network
Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:48 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
vali2noisy/multi-trawl-extremes
Dec 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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