Paul Mithouard
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EDUCATION
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY New York, NY
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
MS in Mathematics in Finance (expected January 2013)
Finance : Arbitrage free pricing, Black Scholes, derivatives pricing, mean-variance analysis, CAPM, Black-Litterman,
principal component analysis
Mathematical Theory : Stochastic calculus, Brownian motions, martingales, Ito's lemma
Computing: Object-oriented design in Java, Monte Carlo and trading simulations
Spring 2012 Coursework : Continuous Time Finance, Scientific Computing, Advanced Risk
Management and Interest Rates and FX Model
ENSAE PARISTECH (2008-2011) Paris, France
BS in Statistics
Extensive coursework in Economics and Applied Mathematics including linear algebra, calculus, probability, statistics,
econometrics, time series and computer sciences
WORK EXPERIENCE
CITI New York, NY
Sales, Trading & Quantitative Analysis Summer Analyst (June 2012 August 2012)
Multi Asset Quant
Improved a segmentation algorithm to aggregate Citi s securitized credit exposures (Auto loans / Student loans / Trade
receivables) into larger segments
Modeled the Probability of Default (PD) and Loss Given Default (LGD) for the different pools
Computed the Basel capital requirements for the credit exposures using the Supervisory Formula Approach (SFA) and
the Simplified SFA (SSFA)
SOCIETE GENERALE CIB Paris, France
Emerging Index Futures trading (September 2010 July 2011)
Designed a process to hedge the MSCI World Emerging Index in Excel
Automated Cash/Future arbitrage strategies on Russian, Greek and South African Indexes with Reuters Data flow in
VBA and significantly reduced execution time
Priced Future/Forward contracts and vanilla options on Emerging Indexes with proprietary softwares and supported the
trader with providing prices to the clients
UFG-LFP INVESTMENT Paris, France
Equity research (December 2009- June 2010)
Modelized and tested risk indicators (VAR, CVAR) and estimators of normal distribution tails (Skewness, Kurtosis)
Designed 14 different utility functions and selected the stocks with highest utility scores
Dynamically optimized asset allocations : maximized expected return while maintaining risk under constraint using R
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
COMPUTING IN FINANCE (in JAVA) New York, NY
Built a comprehensive portfolio management framework for positions in stocks, bonds and derivatives
Established a Monte Carlo Simulation framework to price various exotic options with predetermined precision and
distributed the calculation over multiple threads to improve efficiency
OTHER
Programming languages : R, VBA, Java, Matlab
Other Softwares : Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, LaTeX, Bloomberg
Languages : French (Mother tongue), English (Fluent), German (Good Level)
Associations : Treasurer and recruited sponsors for Cheer Up association, charity helping disabled children who are
hospitalized
Charity : Taught Mathematics to disadvantaged children in the Philippines (Summer 2008), and in Vietnam (Summer 2009)