I am an Assistant Professor and a Nellie McKay Fellow in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This year, I am also a Visiting Professor at UNAM (Instituto de Matemáticas). I completed my Ph.D. in Statistics at Columbia University under the direction of Prof. Philip Protter. My research interests lie primarily in problems in probability, stochastic processes, and statistics motivated by their applications, particularly in mathematical finance and more specifically in credit risk theory. Here you can see one of my recent talks.
During my Ph.D. program, I held a Fulbright grant, I received the Howard Levene Outstanding Teaching Award, and I was one of the finalists for the 2021 and 2022 Presidential Awards for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student at Columbia University. Before graduate school, I had a merit scholarship to major in Actuarial Sciences in Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) where I graduated as Summa Cum Laude and was the Valedictorian of my class (here you can see a video of my commencement speech).
I was born and raised in Puebla, Mexico 🇲🇽 and currently live in Mexico City. I love running! I have run 8 marathons so far. Check out these marathons and other races I have run!
If you would like to contact me, please send me an email to alejandra.quintos at wisc.edu