Michael Serrano

Experience

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  MIT Sloan School of Management

  Jan 2023 - May 2023

  Algorithmic Game Theory Researcher

  Worked on design of Deep Q-Networks and Self-Play algorithms to study effects of programmed biases in pricing algorithms on collusion.

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  MIT Sloan Business Club

  Jan 2023 - now

  Allocates spending for club ventures and overlooks revenue streams and expenses. Prepared weekly classes in consulting, finance, and entrepreneurship for new members. Analyzed company 10-Ks, built DCF models, and wrote business analyses with models such as Economic Moat and Porter's Five Forces.

  • Treasurer

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Board Education Program Director

    Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
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  Instituto Politécnico Nacional

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  Post-Quantum Cryptography Researcher

  Formulated web protocols that are resistant to quantum computer attacks according to NIST standards.

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  Jane Street

  Jan 2024 - Jan 2024

  In Focus Fellowship Participant

  Gained exposure to best practices with quantitative trading on different financial markets, and completed probability and logic competitions with traders.

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  MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

  Feb 2024 - May 2024

  Undergraduate Course Assistant

  Modeling with Machine Learning, Spring 2024.

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  Better Off: IRL Social Experiences

  Jun 2024 - now

  Machine Learning Intern

  • Built and trained a GCN model to partition event attendees into compatible groups• Repurposed pre-existing algorithms to generate synthetic data for model training• Refactored matching algorithm codebase and documentation, yielding a 54x speed-up• Yielded a 99.2% group satisfaction rating from users with the ML matching algorithm