CV
Education
- 2020-2025: Ph.D. in Finance at HEC Montreal (Montreal, QC, Canada). GPA: 4.16/4.30. Supervisors: Profs. David Ardia and Tolga Cenesizoglu
- 2014-2016: Master in Finance at Universite Laval (Quebec, QC, Canada). GPA: 3.78/4.30
- 2011-2014: Master in Business Management at ICN Business School (Nancy, France)
Academic experiences
- 2024-2025: Teaching instructor for FINA20201 Investments (undergraduate level)
- Basics of financial markets and securities markets (e.g., order book, indices construction)
- Asset pricing models (e.g., gordon, molodovsky, FCFE, CAPM, Markowitz)
- Fixed-income fundamentals (e.g., duration, convexity, term structure, immunization strategies)
- 2021-2025: Teaching assistant
- For MATH80633 Statistical Methods for Financial Data with Prof. David Ardia
- For FINA60202 Portfolio Management with Prof. Tolga Cenesizoglu
Industry experience
- 2017-2018: Equity Analyst at Triasima Portfolio Management Inc. (Montreal, QC, Canada)
- Investment funds with around 4B$ AuM
- Perform fundamental, quantitative, and technical research on public equities
Conferences Presentations
- 2025-10: Financial Management Association Annual Meeting (FMA), Conference Doctoral Student Consortium, Vancouver, Canada
- 2025-06: European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Conference Athens, Greece
- 2025-05: Société Canadienne des Sciences Économiques (SCSE) Conference, Orford, Canada
- 2024-06: Northern Finance Association Conference Montreal, Canada (Attendance only)
- 2024-06: European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Conference Lisbon, Portugal
- 2023-06: Conference of the French Finance Association (AFFI), Bordeaux, France
- 2022-07: Quantact SummerDay (Laboratoire de math. actuarielles et financières), Montréal
- 2022-05: Société Canadienne des Sciences Économiques (SCSE) Conference, Montréal, Canada
- 2022-03: SouthWest Finance Association (SWFA) Conference, New Orléans, Louisiana, USA
- 2022-02: Montréal Business Schools’ PhD Symposium, Montréal.
Honors & Achievements
- 2025: Winner of the CASCAD Best Reproduced Paper Award (AFFI Conference 2025)
- For the paper ‘‘Examining High-Frequency Patterns in Robinhood Users’ Trading Behavior’’
- 2023-2025: Hydro-Quebec Excellence Scholarhip (x2)
- Award offered to PhD students with excellent academic results and whose project is related to the field of energy or sustainable development
- 2024: UQAM FinTech Chair
- 2024: GERAD (Group for Research in Decision Analysis) scholarship for conference expenses
- 2022 Award for the best abstract at the Montréal Business Schools’ PhD Symposium
- 2021: Jean-Louis Mercier Scholarship (HEC Montreal)
- Award for Ph.D. student with excellent academic records
- 2021: Fin-ML Scholarship
- 2020: Daniel-Brosseau & Peter-Letko Scholarship
- Admission scholarship award from HEC Montréal Ph.D. program
- 2016: CFA professional designation
- Passed all levels on the first attempt, charter pending upon required experience
Language & Valuable Skills
- Languages: French (native), English (fluent)
- Programming languages: Proficient in R, SAS, Python
- Other: User of Github and Visual Studio Code; Advanced knowledge of WRDS environment (CRSP, COMPUSTAT, NYSE TAQ, etc), Bloomberg, Morningstar Direct