Speakers
Description
Alexandru Dafinca
Alexandru studied at University of Oxford, where he also performed a postdoc. During this time, he was involved in searches for the supersymmetric partners of the bottom and charm quarks and in studies relating to the operation of the Semiconductor Tracker.
In 2014 he joined Winton Capital Management, where he worked in several roles in the company’s data team and in various research projects. Currently, he is involved in the development of Monte Carlo techniques for financial market simulations.
Scott Stevenson
Scott studied at University of Oxford and was a member of the LHCb collaboration. During his time at CERN he worked on the LHCb forward physics programme, analyzing central exclusive charmonium production and contributed to the development of the LHCb’s forward shower counters.
After leaving CERN, Scott joined ASI, an artificial intelligence startup in London, as Data Science Engineer. He focuses on the development of ASI’s cloud data science and machine learning platform and assists the data science consultancy team.