Radu Alexe Padina

Ph.D. Student · Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto

About

I am a first year doctoral student in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. In particular, I am in the mathematical finance stream.

I am supervised by Prof. Xiaofei Shi.

Research Interests

Stochastic analysis, stochastic control, FBSDEs
Diffusion models, machine learning, reinforcement learning

Preprints

Publications

Education

2025–

Ph.D. Statistics University of Toronto

2024–2025

MFI University of Toronto

2018-2023

HBSc Statistics, Economics & Mathematics University of Toronto

Teaching

2026

Financial Principles for Acturial Sciences II (ACT 370) Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto

2025

Applied Probability for Mathematical Finance (STA 2503) Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto

2025

Applied Times Series Analysis (STA 2530) Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto