Short CV

My full CV is available upon request; I am reachable via my email - carlos (dot) accp (at) columbia (dot) edu. Here is a brief overview of what I’ve done so far:

Education

• Sep 2025 - Present: PhD in Statistics at Columbia University
• Aug 2024 - May 2025: ScM in Applied Mathematics at Brown University (4.0 average GPA)
• Oct 2023 - May 2024: MSc in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Oxford (Reuben College, graduated with Merit)
• Oct 2020 - May 2023: BSc in Mathematics at Imperial College London (First Class Honours, top 5% of cohort)

Research, Teaching & Work Experience

• Jul 2025 - Sep 2025: Quantitative Research Intern (Mid freq systematic stat arb) at Verition Fund Management
• Jun 2024 - Sep 2024: Quantitative Research Intern (Volatility models) at Verition Fund Management
• Jun 2023 - Oct 2023: Research Intern at Imperial College London
• Feb 2023 - Apr 2023: Numerical Analysis Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at Imperial College London
• Oct 2022 - Apr 2023: Peer Tutor at Imperial College London
• Jul 2022 - Aug 2022: Research Intern at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jul 2021 - Sep 2021: Software Engineering Intern at Arm

Talks & Presentations

• Sep 2026: “Fluctuations in Sparse Regularized Optimal Transport” at SEIO 2026 (Santiago de Compostela, Spain). Website
• Jun 2026: “Sharp Asymptotics for Regularized Optimal Transport” at the International Workshop on Stochastic Dynamics, Interacting Particle Systems and Applications (IST, Lisbon). Website

Conferences, Workshops & Summer schools

• Sep 2026: XLII National Conference on Statistics, Operations Research and Data Science (SEIO 2026). To be held in Santiago de Compostela, will attend. Website
• Jul 2026: 4th Simons Math Summer Workshop: Algebraic methods in probability. To be held at SCGP (Stony Brook), will attend. Website
• Jun 2026: Peking Summer Program in Probability: Probability & Quantum Field Theory. Held at Peking University, attended. Website
• May 2026: Summer course on High-dimensional CLTs and Bootstrap by Prof. Kengo Kato. Held at Columbia University, attended.
• Apr 2026: Workshop on robust statistics. Held at Columbia University, attended. Website
• Nov 2025: 24th Northeast Probability Seminar. Held at CUNY, attended. Website
• Jun 2025: SLMath Graduate Summer School in Statistical Optimal Transport. Held at UC Berkeley, attended. Website
• Nov 2024: 23rd Northeast Probability Seminar. Held at Columbia University, attended. Website
• Jan 2024: PDE & Probability in interaction: functional inequalities, optimal transport and particle systems. Held at CIRM (Marseille), attended. Website
• Aug 2023: 43rd conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA 2023). Held at the University of Lisbon, attended and volunteered. Kindly funded by the Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences Dean’s Fund. Website
• Jul 2023: CNRS-ICL Workshop: Mean field limits for interacting particle systems: uniform propagation of chaos, phase transitions and applications. Held at Imperial College London, attended. Website
• Jul 2022: Advances in Mathematical Physics: A Conference in Honor of Elliott H. Lieb on his 90th Birthday. Held at Harvard University, attended. Website

Awards & Scholarships

• Sep 2025: Columbia University Departmental Fellowship
• Aug 2024: Brown University Graduate School Fellowship
• May 2023: Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences Dean’s Fund Grant for the 43rd conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA 2023)
• Mar 2022: Turing Scheme Grant for Research Internship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Sep 2022: Dean’s List at Imperial College London
• Jul 2019: Nexalia Award & Sir Roger Fry Scholarship at King’s College Madrid

Volunteering & Service

• Sep 2026 - Jun 2026: Organiser of the Columbia Statistics’ Student Seminar. Website
• Apr 2026: Poster session organiser at Columbia’s Workshop on Robust Statistics. Website
• Aug 2023: Conference helper at the 43rd conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications (SPA 2023).
• Aug 2022 - Aug 2023: President of Imperial College’s Mathematics Society
• Aug 2021 - Aug 2022: Events officer at Imperial College’s Portuguese-Speaking Society
• Aug 2021 - Aug 2022: Secretary of Imperial College’s Mathematics Society
• Aug 2021 - Aug 2022: Vice-President of Imperial College’s Spanish Society
• Sep 2020 - Sep 2022: Mathematics cohort academic representative

Languages (Natural & Programming)

• Portuguese (Native)
• Spanish (Native)
• English (Native)
• Catalan (Advanced)
• French (Intermediate)
• Japanese (Beginner)
• Python
• Julia
• MATLAB
• JavaScript
• C++ (In progress)