Alex Ribeiro-Castro

Alex is a Data Scientist/Senior Teaching Fellow with the Operations Management department at ICBS, and an active teacher in the Global Business Analytics MSc. He holds a M.A. and PhD in Mathematics from the University of California (Santa Cruz), and held a professorship in Mathematics from the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio) in Rio de Janeiro. He was previously a Visiting Lecturer in the Applied Mathematics Department at ICL working on stochastic models for various physical systems ranging from spinning tops to turbulent fluids. He has accumulated over 10 years of teaching experience across the globe, in diverse subjects in pure and applied mathematics. He has previously taught at the University of California in Santa Cruz (USA), the University of Toronto (Canada), and the Institute of Applied and Pure Mathematics (Brazil). With over 5 years of consultancy experience, he has made contributions in various industries, including machine learning and optimisation problems in fintech, health, energy, and more recently in retail. Some of his most recent industry partners include KPMG, Quantum Black/McKinsey, Ion Trading (finance), Ovo Energy/Kaluza (energy), DoctorLink (health) and more recently Otravo BV (retail). He is currently working as a technical adviser for a pioneering data science project in maritime insurance.