Ali Baouan

Undergraduate engineer specializing in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. I have a strong interest in Quantitative Research, Machine Learning and Data Science.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. LinkedIn lists a 'Quant Internship' at Rayens Capital (2020), and Rayens Capital is an alternative investment manager based in Chicago that runs a global macro fund on cross-asset/cross-region derivatives - a quantitative-investment employer, not merely a company with 'quant' in its name. Identity is supported: the same name, Paris location and Ecole Polytechnique PhD appear across LinkedIn enrichment and the RocketReach index. Caveat: the 'Quant Internship' title is self-reported/indexed and is not corroborated by an independent Rayens Capital primary source (Rayens' own site is offline; alpha-maven/Crunchbase/company LinkedIn describe the fund). A separate J.P. Morgan 'Off-cycle Internship' (2021, UK) is listed without a stated desk, so it counts as a bank internship, not a confirmed quantitative role.2020
• He is a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics at CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique (since 2022), with a thesis on statistical modelling for decision-making in team sports, supervised by Mathieu Rosenbaum.2022
• His research output is four sports-analytics papers (arXiv 2212.11041, 2304.05242, 2502.03342, 2501.10299), co-authored with Mathieu Rosenbaum and Sergio Pulido, in venues including the International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching and the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports - a machine-learning/optimal-transport niche rather than quantitative finance.Jan 17, 2025
• Education path: CPGE Moulay Youssef, Rabat (2015-2017) after the Olympiad, then Ecole Polytechnique Engineer's degree (2017-2021), then a Master 2 in Probability and Finance at Sorbonne Universite / Pierre-and-Marie-Curie (2020-2021).2021
• Ali Baouan won an Honourable Mention for Morocco at the 56th IMO 2015 in Chiang Mai (11 points, individual rank 322), matching the caller's stated Olympiad identity.2015
• Rayens Capital, the 2020 'Quant Internship' employer, is described by data vendors as a Chicago alternative investment manager running a 'modern global macro fund' specialised in cross-asset and cross-region derivatives; Tracxn tags it 'deadpooled', so the fund appears inactive as of 2026 and the internship should not be read as current employment.2026
• In 2019 he was a research intern at Uncharted Technologies (Paris), working on uncertainty estimation in deep learning and forecasting financial time series - a machine-learning/finance-adjacent internship, not a trading role.2019
• Uncharted Technologies today sells 'Skill-Based Boxing Achievement' software for gyms - the same company name no longer matches the deep-learning research lab implied by the 2019 research internship, so the 2019 role title is drawn from the index only.2019
• No personal website, blog, GitHub or X/Twitter account surfaced in any source; his public presence is LinkedIn, arXiv/ResearchGate, and a Kaggle profile.2026
• His public code footprint is minimal: Kaggle user 'alibaouan' (joined ~2017, last seen ~2024) with one in-class competition, 'M2 Proba-Finance 2020'.2020