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A Computer Science graduate with a masters in AI from The University of Edinburgh, former mathematical and chess Olympiad contestant and problem-devising enthusiast.

  • Name: Pricope Tidor-Vlad
  • Date of birth: July 27, 1998
  • Address: Canary Wharf, London, UK
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Github: TidorP

5 awesome years of doing AI

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Education

2020-2021

MSc in Artificial Intelligence

The University of Edinburgh

Masters degree at the University of Edinburgh, UK. GPA: 83.23/100.

2017-2020

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Babes-Bolyai University

A wonderful period in my life, this is the first time a got a glance of a research environment and how this field works. I finished with a GPA of 9.87/10.

2013-2017

High school (Baccalaureat)

Mihai Eminescu National College

A great 4-year journey when I first got seriously involved in diverse olympiads in the field of mathematics, chess and geography. This is also when my passion for Computer Science first started.

Work Experience

August 2021 - April 2024

Machine Learning Engineer

Ntropy

Developing different language models for understanding transaction data.

April 2021 - August 2021

Quantitative Research Assistant

Predictiva

Developed Deep Reinforcement Learning models in python for financial portfolio management.

February 2021 - April 2021

Quantitative Research Intern

Predictiva

Developed Deep Reinforcement Learning models in python for quantitative stock trading.

Summer 2020

Udemy Instructor

Udemy

I worked and published 2 AI courses. I have about 22 students at Udemy and 10 at Skillshare, with a rating of 4/5.

Summer 2019

Research Intern

Bosch

It was a thrill working in a team of mathematicians, physicists who were also software developers in order to make the self-driving car dream, a reality! My work here mainly focused computer vision and optimization.

Skills

Python

95%
90%
1 year ago
75%
2 years ago

C++

85%
80%
1 year ago
70%
2 years ago

Matlab

55%
45%
1 year ago
75%
2 years ago

TensorFlow

75%

Keras

95%

Java

70%

SQL

75%

Bash/Shell Scripting

75%

HTML/JS

35%

Awards

2021

Second place at the IBM MLP Competition out of 101 projects.

IBM, The University of Edinburgh

The project title: Low frequency quantitative stock trading with deep reinforcement learning.

2018-2019

Two Silver Medals at South Eastern European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students

MASSEE

A balkan mathematical olympiad for university students only, held in Romania (2018) and in Bulgaria (2019).

2014

Member of the extended National Senior Team for IMO

Romanian ministry of education, romanian mathematical society

A small group of 30 high school students competing for a place in International Mathematical Olympiad.

2014-2016

Two silver medals and one bronze medals at NMO

Romanian ministry of education, romanian mathematical society

I have participated multiple times in the Romanian National Mathematical Olympiad being place at 7th, 20th and 9th in the national rankings. During 11-grade I participated one year in advanced among the 12-graders, obtaining a silver medal.

2018

Excellence Diploma from Babes-Bolyai University for academic performance 2018

Babes-Bolyai University

Diploma from Babes-Bolyai University for high academic performance.

2010

2nd place at Cap Aurora International Chess Competition, problem solving section

FIDE

This is probably my best achievement in chess, alongside placing 20th in National Chess Olympiad.

2013

FIDE ELO Rating Grant

FIDE

This is the first moment when I officially got an International Chess Elo Rating (1551), having only a national rating until then.

2013

Certificate for high problem-solving performance

Romanian Mathematical Society

During gymnasium, I was constantly sending solutions to math problems posted in the national mathematical gazette.

2005-now

Other 70+ prizes in math, chess and sciences national competitions

Miscellaneous

I first started my competitive career at the age of 6, from that point on I accumulated over 40 medals and trophies.

Publications

Publications

Academic papers (all - single author): 5. Citations: 71. h-index: 2 [Google Scholar]

Projects

My Projects

A lot of my work is kept private but here are some public projects I worked on.

Deep Learning Sentiment Analysis & Determine age, gender, language, emotion from speech using LSTM

Artificial Intelligence

C++, QT Graphics & Learn Topological Spaces

OOP, Data structures, Math
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Blog

My Blog

Here you can read more about my most awesome projects !

Building our own Poker AI Bot with Deep Reinforcement Learning

June. 21, 2020 Admin 1

Learn how I managed to build my own Poker AI Bot, Rosita, with Reinforcement Learning through self-play and deep neural networks. You can also play against the best version of our bot which has an expert human level of play.

Build your own virtual assistant with NLP and Speech Recognition

December. 12, 2019 Admin 0

Learn how I managed to build my own version of Siri with special targeted routines that help me in my University years ! This includes: recommendation system for optional courses; grades, assignments management.

The power of statistics. A pure mathematical machine learning classifier: Naive Bayes Classifier Method

March. 19, 2019 Admin 0

Learn how to build your own Bayes Classifier from scratch for diverse classification problems.

Test your C++ skills

July. 1, 2020 Admin 1

See how well you remember OOP concepts and C++ language with our 30-question Quiz.

AI, ML, Deep Learning interview questions to prepare you for the trickiest part of getting a job in Data Science.

July. 7, 2020 Admin 0

I gathered 70 Data Science interview questions and I also provided my take on each of them, take a look!

AI in Finance: Interview Questions to Watch Out For

January. 29, 2021 Admin 1

Get a glance at the requirements to work in two of the most influential industries in the word: tech and finance.

Hobbies

My Hobbies

My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation. ~ Al Yankovic

Chess

1731 ELO (FIDE Rating)
1950 ELO (Blitz - Chess.com)
2005 ELO (Bullet - Chess.com)

Hearthstone

It was a time when I was consistently ranked among top 100 in Europe playerbase. In 2019 I also qualified and played in a tournament with the best 200 Hearthstone EU players for Master's Tour.

Naruto Lore and Games

I'm into Naruto theories and lore and the Ninja Storm console game series.

Warcraft lore and games

I'm into Warcraft lore and books.

Astronomy & Astrophysics

I read a lot of space related stuff. I have been fascinated by the Universe since I was 8 years old.

Table Tennis

I consider myself an average table tennis player.

I'm doing modelling as hobby

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Fun facts

Life Milestones

I first started to play chess at the age of 6 and I had my first national chess championship at the age of 10.

At the age of 12 I discovered my passion for mathematics and I started prioritizing that instead of chess. For the following 3 years, I was constantly doing 12 hours/week math Olympiad preparation with my school teacher.

At the age of 15, I entered the extended romanian senior team for the International Mathematical Olympiad. The team consisted of top 25 high school students in math from all grades, in the country.

I successfully completed in advance all the high-school mathematics curricula in just one year and a half.

When in 11th grade, I participated amongst the 12th graders in the Olympiad - one generation higher, still achieving top 10 at the national Olympiad.

At the age of 16, I started devising my own math problems that I successfully published in magazines and competitions.

During high-school I was still active in chess, although playing mostly for fun, in 12th grade I ended up ranking in top 20 at the National Chess Olympiad. Nowadays I have around 2000 ELO chess.com rating.

My first programming language I got acquainted with was C in 10th grade as part of high-school curriculum, but my first programming language that I learnt by myself was python, right before my undergrad.

In summer 2018, after my first year of University I started learning Machine Learning by myself. In the following Uni years, I was taking more and more ML classes.

During University I was still studying competitive mathematics, now at college-level. I successfully achieved 2 silver medals during that time at the balkan mathematical olympiad for University students.

Throughout high school, I played Hearthstone as a hobby, constantly achieving top 500 in the European rankings. In 2019, during sophomore year of University, after ranking amongst the top 150 EU players for a season, I qualified and participated in my first ever Hearthstone pro tournament organized by Blizzard.

In November 2020, at the age of 22, after only 2 years of AI and Machine Learning, I got my first publication in this field and a few more single-author papers submitted for publication.

For my bachelors thesis, I developed a Poker bot trained for 80 hours only by playing against itself that later ended up convincingly beating an expert human Poker player.

In spring 2020, I got accepted to the University of Edinburgh for a MSc in AI programme, which I pursued due to the renowned research in AI conducted by this particular institution.

In May 2021, I was invited to hold two 2-hour lectures on Reinforcement Learning for Babes-Bolyai University. It was the first time I actually had to teach something in front of a bigger audience - a class of students.

Immediately after finishing my masters, at the age of 22 and 11 months I got my first full-time job as a Machine Learning Engineer in fintech for a Bay Area company. The position was already on a mid to senior level.

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