- Deploy regression-driven elasticity models to tune margins across customer segments.
- Lead experimentation programs with Statsig to accelerate pricing decisions.
- Operationalize ML solutions across Looker, Snowflake, SageMaker, GitHub Actions, and Dagster.
Driving decisions with machine learning and operations research
Postdoctoral researcher and senior data scientist with a focus on reinforcement learning, stochastic optimization, and high-impact data products across pricing, supply chain, and financial domains.
Experience spans strategic pricing initiatives, perishable inventory research, and cross-functional leadership that bridges product, engineering, and science teams.
Professional
All the professional roles I have held, both nationally and internationally, across corporate and academic sectors.
- Advance perishable inventory management through dynamic programming and reinforcement learning.
- Design hyper-heuristics for high-dimensional stochastic decision environments.
- Built proprietary demand forecasting models mixing academic advances with production constraints.
- Created a clustering framework to segment products via behavioral patterns.
- Delivered autonomous agents for order optimization, moving from simulation to deployment.
- Built NLP-based anomaly detection to curb unnecessary expenses in healthcare portfolios.
- Engineered forecasting pipelines comparing ARIMA, Prophet, LSTM, and MLP baselines.
- Migrated ML workloads to Databricks with PySpark, integrating Azure MLflow and DevOps.
- Dual Ph.D. collaboration tackling discrete lot-sizing with RL and dynamic programming.
- Developed RL policies for perishable stock replenishment considering consumer dynamics.
- Compared supervised learning and RL techniques for financial decision-making.
- Evaluated forecasting methods with synthetic and real series using rigorous statistical tests.
- Managed corporate cash management products end-to-end, from concept to launch.
- Used BI insights to prioritize features and explored blockchain applications.
- Delivered software testing and specification for capital markets solutions in partnership with TCS and Totvs.
Education
Academic journey across applied mathematics, economics, and engineering.
Postdoctoral Research · Operations Research
Exploring reinforcement learning and dynamic programming for perishable inventory decisions.
Ph.D. · Applied Mathematics
Reinforcement learning for discrete lot-sizing and stochastic optimization problems.
Ph.D. · Computer Engineering
Machine learning for finance with emphasis on supervised and reinforcement learning approaches.
M.Sc. · Economics
Advanced econometrics and policy analysis supporting data-driven financial decisions.
B.E. · Civil Engineering
Quantitative foundations and systems thinking applied to engineering and analytics.
Academic Work
Selected publications covering reinforcement learning, optimization, and forecasting.
Post-Decision PPO with Dual Critic Networks
Reinforcement learning method for stochastic environments emphasizing post-decision states.
Reinforcement Learning for Stochastic Lot-Sizing
Hybrid dynamic programming and RL approach to discrete lot-sizing on parallel machines.
Simulation-Based Inventory Management
Linear discrete choice models for perishable products in stochastic demand settings.
Reinforcement Learning Applied to Trading Systems
Comprehensive survey of RL strategies for algorithmic trading.
Deep Learning Stacking for Financial Forecasting
Stacked neural architectures outperforming baselines in financial time series prediction.
RL for Optimal Stopping in Options
Reinforcement learning strategy for exercising financial options under uncertainty.
Outperforming Algorithmic Trading Reinforcement Learning Systems
A supervised framework that surpasses reinforcement learning traders in cryptocurrency markets.
Inventory Management with Substitution
Stock-out substitution modeling for vertically differentiated perishables.
Intelligent Trading Systems: A Sentiment-Aware Reinforcement Learning Approach
Conference contribution blending investor sentiment with reinforcement learning for adaptive trading agents.
Comparing ML for Bitcoin Forecasting
WaveNet, RNN, and ML baselines evaluated for Bitcoin price prediction.
Neural Architecture for Brazilian Stocks
Study of neural networks applied to forecasting Brazilian stock returns.
GitHub Contributions
Live activity across public repositories.
Lot Sizing for Perishables
Simulation environment and heuristics for managing perishable inventory with stochastic demand.
PDF Name Change
Batch utility to rename PDF files using pattern matching and metadata extraction.
Translate App
Lightweight translation interface leveraging modern NLP services for research teams.
PDPPO
Post-decision proximal policy optimization experiments featuring dual-critic architectures.
Contextual Bandit ResNet Trading
Contextual bandit framework combined with ResNet models for adaptive trading strategies.
Discrete Lot Sizing RL Agents
Reinforcement learning agents tackling discrete lot-sizing on parallel machines.
Optimal Stopping CNN
Convolutional models to approximate optimal stopping boundaries for financial options.
Dempster-Shafer Toolkit
Exploration of Dempster-Shafer theory for evidence aggregation in uncertain systems.
Let's Collaborate
Reach out for research partnerships, data science initiatives, or speaking engagements.
- Emailfelizardo@ita.br
- LocationSão Paulo, SP · Brazil




