Alessio Brini

I am an Executive in Residence at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, working with the Digital Asset Research & Engineering Collaborative (DAREC). I work on machine learning applications in finance and economics, with a strong emphasis on challenges in decentralized finance and digital assets.

At Duke, I teach Machine Learning for FinTech, Data Wrangling and Visualization with Python, and Introduction to Statistics and Econometrics in the Master of Engineering in Financial Technology program. I also mentor students on FinTech capstones and summer research projects.

I earned my Ph.D. in Mathematical Finance from Scuola Normale Superiore, where I studied reinforcement learning for sequential decision-making in finance. My dissertation, Reinforcement learning for sequential decision-making: a data-driven approach for finance, reflects my ongoing interest in the intersection of finance, technology, and computation.