I’m Carlos, a PhD student in Statistics at Columbia University. I completed an MSc in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Oxford and a BSc at Imperial College London, also in Mathematics.

I was born in Coimbra, Portugal to a Portuguese father and a Spanish mother of Catalan origin, and I grew up in Madrid. I am a Portuguese and Spanish dual citizen.

(Due to some differences in Spanish & Portuguese naming conventions, I also use the name Carlos Alberto Perello Mota Pinto.)

Research

Broadly speaking, I am interested in Analysis and Probability in interaction with Physics and Statistics. Optimal transport, in particular, has been a great interest of mine for quite some time now, due to its applications in both theory and practice. I am also quite interested in mathematical physics, especially in spin glass systems and Liouville quantum gravity.

I wrote my MSc dissertation on the optimal matching problem and its connection to optimal transport; I was very lucky to be supervised by Prof. James Martin. Before this, I wrote my BSc project on importance sampling, where I was fortunate to work alongside Prof. Ömer Deniz Akyildiz.

Mentors

Some of the people I have had the pleasure to meet and have helped me to become the mathematician I am today are listed below. I am extremely grateful for their support and guidance. I am also thankful to all the people who have assisted me along the way and I have not mentioned here.

• Prof. Oliver Ratmann (Imperial College London)
• Prof. Ömer Deniz Akyildiz (Imperial College London)
• Prof. Francesco Sanna Passino (Imperial College London)
• Prof. Promit Ghosal (Met at MIT, now at UChicago)
• Prof. Dan Mikulincer (Met at MIT, not at UWash)
• Prof. Patrícia Gonçalves (IST Lisbon)
• Prof. James Martin (University of Oxford)
• Prof. Marcel Nutz (Columbia University)
• Prof. Ivan Corwin (Columbia University)
• Prof. Alberto González Sanz (Columbia University)