Tomas España
Tomas España

Ph.D. Student

About Me

First-year Ph.D. student at the Operations Research & Financial Engineering (ORFE) department. I am very grateful for the support of the Gordon Wu Fellowship.

CV (last upd. 01/26)
Interests
  • Quantitative Finance
  • Random Matrix Theory
  • Machine Learning
Education
  • Ph.D. Student

    Princeton University

  • MS in Probability and Finance

    Université Paris-Cité

  • MS and BS in Applied Mathematics

    CentraleSupélec - Université Paris-Saclay

News

July 2025. Gave my first talk (on Kendall correlations) at SIAM FM25 in Miami.

June 2025. Find attached my Master’s project on multivariate time series factorization based on non-Gaussianity, supervised by Rudy Morel.

March 2025. Poster presentation on Kendall correlations and portfolio construction at the Louis Bachelier 18th Financial Risks International Forum in Paris.

December 2024. Another Kendall poster at the RMT Brunel Bielefeld Workshop in London!

October 2024. I presented a poster on Kendall correlation matrices at Random Tensors and Related Topics in Paris.

Publications
(2025). Reinforcement Learning in Queue-Reactive Models: Application to Optimal Execution. arXiv preprint.
(2025). Spectral Properties of Generalized Correlation Matrices. arXiv preprint.
(2025). Another Marčenko-Pastur law for Kendall's tau. Electronic Communications in Probability (ECP).
(2024). Kendall Correlation Coefficients for Portfolio Optimization. arXiv preprint.