Pablo Andrade Carvalho Barros

PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics (FGV) working on optimization, multistage stochastic programming and machine learning. Applied Science PhD Intern at Microsoft (2026) on LLM optimization/evaluation for Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning; visiting PhD student at MIT's Operations Research Center (Feb-Jun 2026). IMO 2020 silver and IMO 2021 bronze medalist for Brazil; IMC 2023 Grand First Prize (top 9).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Pablo Andrade Carvalho Barros held an actual internship - 'Quantitative Research Intern' at Giant Steps Capital (Jan-Feb 2023, Sao Paulo) - building implied-volatility-surface models and processing options datasets in R/Python. Giant Steps Capital (gscap.com.br) is a Brazilian quantitative asset manager (self-described and reported as a 'gestora quantitativa'/quant fund manager), so the employer genuinely operates in quantitative finance. Identity is supported: the role is published on his personal site pabl0ck.github.io, which cross-links his LinkedIn /in/pabl0ck, his MIT email, and his IMO 2020/2021 medals, and LinkedIn enrichment corroborates the same role and company. The G-Research 'Spring into Quant Finance Participant' (Apr 2026) is a week-long residential student programme by G-Research (a quantitative research/investment firm), NOT employment or an internship, so it does not by itself satisfy the employment criterion and is included only as classification context. No other quant-finance employment (bank, asset manager, energy/crypto trading) was found.Jan 2023
• Timeline read: his only quant-finance role, a 2-month internship at Giant Steps (Jan-Feb 2023), fell while he was still an undergraduate (BSc 2022-2024); since then his public career is academic research (FGV PhD 2025-, MIT ORC visiting 2026) and industry AI roles (Mercor 2024-2025, Microsoft 2026) rather than continued quant employment.Sep 2026
• Current role is an industry AI internship, not a quant role: Applied Science PhD Intern at Microsoft (Jul-Dec 2026) on LLM optimization and evaluation for Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning.Jul 2026
• G-Research's Spring into Quant Finance is described on G-Research's own site as a week-long residential programme on the French Riviera giving an introduction to quantitative finance - classification: student outreach programme, not a job or internship. His own site lists his participation under Apr 2026.Apr 2026
• IMO official results confirm the olympiad identity: Brazil, 2020 Silver (rank 140, 24 pts) and 2021 Bronze (rank 180, 15 pts), matching the medals listed on his personal site.2021
• Research output: 9 listed papers on optimization/stochastic programming, including first-author work in Mathematics of Computation (to appear) and several arXiv preprints; Best Poster Award at CariOPT 2025.Sep 2026
• Visiting PhD student at MIT Operations Research Center (Feb-Jun 2026), researching nonconvex optimization and deep learning under Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas.Feb 2026
• Reached MIT via a Brazilian-Portuguese press profile ('Estudante piauiense e aprovado no MIT', Feb 2026), confirming his Piaui/teresinense origin and the MIT admission reported independently of his own site.Feb 2026
• Member of the FGV EMAp team that won the Grand First Prize (top 9) at the 2023 International Mathematics Competition for University Students; FGV's institutional news confirms his name and the result.Aug 2023
• Worked as an LLM Evaluation Analyst at Mercor (Nov 2024 - Dec 2025), performing model evaluation for AI organizations.Nov 2024