Douglas Castilho

Intern and Sponsored PhD Candidate

Douglas obtained his MSc degree in Computer Science in 2014 from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil. He is now a researcher and professor at Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of South of Minas Gerais. He researches in areas of Computational Intelligence, Online Social Networks, Deep Learning and Financial Markets. He is specially interested in High Frequency Trading and Algorithmic trading improvement techniques. Douglas was awarded Outstanding Student Prize in 2012, granted by the Brazilian Society of Computing. He has been working with machine learning and financial markets since 2010; recently, was a finalist in Data Science Game 2017 – an international competition for students held in Paris, France. He is a visiting researcher at University of Porto (Portugal). Douglas is also a PhD candidate in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics at the University of São Paulo (Brazil); he is sponsored by OptiRisk Systems where he is an intern.