Francesco Muia

Francesco Muia is a data scientist who applies Bayesian modeling and simulation-based inference to research in quantitative finance for a hedge fund. Alongside this work, he contributes to HSSM, a toolbox for Bayesian cognitive modeling. Before moving to data science, he worked as a theoretical physicist specializing in string theory and cosmology.

Education

• 2024 – present – Independent Bayesian data scientist
• 2022 – 2024 – Executive MBA, SDA Bocconi
• 2020 – 2024 – Stephen Hawking Fellow, University of Cambridge (DAMTP)
• 2019 – 2020 – Postdoctoral Researcher, DESY Hamburg
• 2017 – 2019 – Postdoctoral Researcher, ICTP Trieste
• 2016 – 2017 – Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford
• 2013 – 2016 – Ph.D., University of Bologna (Theoretical Physics)