Andrea Catelli

Quantitative Finance student at Politecnico di Milano.

🎓 Education

Politecnico di Milano
M.Sc. in Quantitative Finance – Expected 2025
Selected courses: Financial Engineering; Mathematical Finance II; Econometrics and Insurance; Algorithms and Parallel Computing; Stochastic Calculus; Stochastic Dynamical Models; Real and Functional Analysis

Politecnico di Milano
B.Sc. in Mathematical Engineering – 2020 - 2023
Selected courses: Partial Differential Equation; Programming; Mathematical Finance I; Calculus; Business Economics

Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Erasmus Bachelor’s Exchange, Engineering – 2022–2023
Selected Courses: Calculus III, Rational and Continuum Mechanics, Electronics

💼 Work

GSoC 2025: Bayesian Dynamic Factor Models

Extension of PyMC State-space models.

Google Summer of Code

FSI – Fondo Strategico Italiano

Investment Team Intern – Oct–Dec 2024

Supported senior analysts with company profiles and trading comparables. Participated in meetings with entrepreneurs and banks.

🚀 Projects

Lévy-driven OU Process Simulation

Simulation of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes with Fast General Monte Carlo methods for energy derivatives.

Structuring & Risk Management

Solved case studies in structured products pricing, credit and interest rate modeling, curve shocks hedging.

Image Classification & Segmentation

Top 20 (out of 160+ teams) in blood cell classification challenge. Used U-Net, DeepLabV3, and EfficientNet.

Asset Management

Implemented asset allocation models: Markowitz, Black-Litterman, Efficient Frontier.

🧰 Past Experience

GoStudent

Private Tutor (2020–2024)
Provided 400+ hours of tutoring in Math, Physics, and Computer Science.

Workaway – Berkeley, California

Au Pair (Jan 2023)
Lived abroad and supported a host family as part of a cultural exchange program.

PianBosco Village

Lifeguard (2019–2022)
Worked during summers at an outdoor swimming pool.