Jordi Busquets Blanco

Jordi Busquets Blanco, Ph.D. has extensive work experience in the financial industry and academia. Jordi is currently the Head of Strats at Quantile, a company that specializes in compression and optimization services. Prior to this, they served as a Senior Quantitative Developer at Quantile.

Before joining Quantile, Jordi worked at Barclays Investment Bank for many years. Jordi held various roles, including Library Design and Desktop Delivery Lead, Cross-asset (Director), where they led teams responsible for design oversight and quality control of the library and its interfaces. Jordi also led the Desktop Delivery team, which focused on deploying tools to clients using cloud and Docker technologies. In addition, Jordi served as a Quantitative Analyst in both the Cross-asset and FX departments at Barclays, where they supported the FX business, developed new analytics models and pricing functionality for exotic products.

Prior to their career in finance, Jordi worked at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where they completed their Ph.D. and conducted research on the properties of the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model. Jordi also served as an Assistant Lecturer during their Ph.D., delivering lectures on probability to undergraduate medicine students and Bayesian probability as part of the Master in Artificial Intelligence program.

Jordi Busquets Blanco, Ph.D. obtained a Bachelor's of Physics degree in Theoretical Physics and Statistical Mechanics from Universitat de Barcelona, where they studied from 1996 to 2001. Jordi also holds a certification in Machine Learning, obtained in March 2021, from Coursera.