Education

Ph.D. in Sciences (Physics)

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Sept. 2000 - Sept. 2004

Matter asymmetry and gauge unification

Diplôme d'Etude Approfondie (Physics)

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Sept. 2000 - June 2002

SLAC Summer Institute

Stanford University

Aug. 2001

Master in Physics

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Sept. 1996 - June 2000

Summa Cum Laude. Theoretical physics option. Thesis on neutrino physics in extra dimensions.

Trainings & Certificates

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Scrum Alliance

2019

Deep Learning Specialisation

Coursera

2018

Machine Learning

Coursera

2017

Functional Programming Principles in Scala

Coursera

EPFL

2014

Time Series Modeling Essentials

SAS

2013

Work Experience

Senior Front Office Quant Developer

ING Bank - Financial Market

March 2020

IBOR reform and overnight risk-free rate transition on derivatives activities.

Java SQL Server C++

Senior Data Scientist

ENGIE Impact

Sept. 2018 - March 2020

Machine learning, deep learning applied on various business cases in the energy sector.

Predictive maintenance for renewable energy assets, solar, wind power plants.

Natural language processing for document classification in the commercial tender process (Word2Vec, Doc2vec);

Semantic segmentation on aerial images (Convolutional Neural Networks).

Python Docker Spark Tensorflow OpenCV Celery

Senior Front Office Quant Developer

ING Bank

May 2013 - Sept. 2018

In-house development of interest rate, credit, inflation derivatives pricing and reporting application for front office and risk department for ING financial market all locations.

The application provides: derived market data, real-time pricing, end-of-day pricing, greeks and HVaR reporting. Quant pricing and modeling library integration.

Regulatory projects for MIFID II, PRIIPS, QIS, FRTB.

Java SQL Python Data Synapse Gradle

Fixed Income Structuring Solutions

BNP Paribas Fortis

Sept. 2007 - May 2013

Advisory on Fixed Income market both from technical and business side.

Modeling and tools development for pricing, analyzing and simulation of derivatives and structured products on interest rates, forex and inflation.

Econometric models, timeseries forecasting (ARIMA), PCA, anomaly detections.

Risk management analysis for Institutionals, Corporates, SME’s - Belgium & European Network.

C# C++ SQL R Python SAS VBA

Consultant / Business Analyst

Callataÿ and Wouters

Sopra

Sept. 2005 - Sept. 2007

Architecture, specifications & development of payment module (B2C, B2B) for the SEPA framework, deployed in medium sized Belgian and Dutch banks;

Analysis & development of payment management systems (B2C, B2B) for Dutch banks; Implementation of the Basel II agreements in the banking engine Thaler edited by C&W. Collection and processing of data for Basel II;

Cobol SQL

Post Doc Researcher & Teaching Assistant

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Solvay Business School

Sept. 2004 - Sept. 2005

Research on dark matter generation in relationship with matter anti-matter asymmetry.

Mathematica C++

Teaching Assistant

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Oct. 2000 - Sept. 2004

Teaching tutorials and laboratories (Quantum Field Theory, General Physics, Electronics), management of teaching tasks.

Research in theoretical particle physics on fundamental interactions and matter origin: gauge unification, CP asymmetry, leptogenesis, extra dimensions and neutrino physics.

Mathematica C++

Hobbies

Books, trekking, guitar, running, creative coding, sailing.