José Luis Miranda Olvera

José Luis Miranda Olvera is a Mexican mathematician and quantitative finance professional. From Guadalajara, Jalisco, he represented Mexico at the 51st International Mathematical Olympiad (Astana, July 2010), winning a bronze medal with 15 points, after gold and silver medals at the national Olimpiada Mexicana de Matemáticas. He earned an MSc in Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University (May 2022), has taught at the Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, and works in quantitative modeling / financial engineering in the Mexico City area.

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• Won bronze for Mexico at the 51st IMO (Astana, Kazakhstan, July 2010), scoring 15 points (7 on P1, 7 on P4) among 517 students from 96 countries.Jul 15, 2010
• Current role: financial engineer / quantitative modeling at MSCI Inc. in the Mexico City area.
• Holds an MSc in Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, completed May 2022, per his own LinkedIn summary.May 1, 2022
• Had to self-fund his Kazakhstan trip: SEP failed to provide the ~50,000 pesos, the Jalisco science council and Guadalajara gave nothing, and only Tlaquepaque (1,000 pesos) and finally the Universidad de Guadalajara stepped in - showing the funding gap top Mexican Olympiad students faced even after selection.Oct 16, 2016
• Competed at IMO 2010 as a freshly graduated Escuela Vocacional (UdeG) bachiller from Guadalajara - the International capped a run in which he first won silver then gold at the national Olimpiada Mexicana de Matemáticas.Jul 15, 2010
• By 2016 had competed in six Olympiad editions and medaled gold, silver and bronze, and earned an honorable mention that year (in Brazil) per El Universal.Oct 16, 2016
• Taught at the Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM as M. en C.: Professor for Gráficas y Juegos (2020-1) and teaching assistant for Modelos de Supervivencia y de Series de Tiempo, Programación, and Seminario de Matemáticas Aplicadas I (2019-2).
• Authored a published solution to an IMO 2010 problem in Tzaloa, the Olimpiada Mexicana de Matemáticas journal - an early sign of the writing/teaching bent he later showed at UNAM.
• Financial engineering skillset built out via certifications (MSc Financial Engineering, Bloomberg Market Concepts, Scientific Computing and Python for Data Science, Certificación Genérica en Materia de Inversiones) alongside the pure-math training.
• ZoomInfo separately lists him as 'Quantitative Modeling Senior Specialist' at S&P Global with an @spglobal.com address - an employer discrepancy with his MSCI LinkedIn, suggesting either a move between the two index/analytics providers or a stale/merged directory record.
• Featured in UNAM outreach content (Ciencias.TV 'Movimiento sincronizado') explaining synchronization, consistent with an ongoing public-communication role in mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences.
• Listed on misprofesores with a 6.7 overall quality rating and 50% recommendation rate as a Facultad de Ciencias UNAM instructor.