Vitae

Link to: Curriculum Vitae; Résumé (Updated March 2022)

Education

• PhD Economics, University of Toronto, 2017 - 2021 

  • Dissertation Advisors: Martin Burda (supervisor), Xu Tian, Claire Célérier

• Master of Arts, Economics, University of Toronto, 2017

• Master of Quantitative Finance, University of Waterloo, 2014

  • Dissertation Advisor: David Saunders

• Bachelor of Science, Joint Honours in Mathematics and Economics, University of Ottawa, 2012

  • Honour's Thesis Advisor: Rafal Kulik

Employment

Current

• Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions

  • Specialist, Risk Advisory Hub - Bank Capital and Liquidity Standards Division, 2022 - current

  • Analyst, Regulatory Sector - Bank Capital, 2021 - 2022

Previously

• d1g1t, Inc., Financial Engineer, 2021

• Economic Research

  • AURAIA Inc., Consultant (contract), Portfolio Strategy R&D, 2020 - 2021

  • Bank of Canada, Research Assistant (part-time), Financial Markets Department, 2020 - 2021

    • With Guihai Zhao

  • University of Toronto, Research Assistant, 2017-2019

    • With Peter Cziraki, Victor Aguirregabiria, Michael Brolley

• Quantitative Financial Analysis

  • Bank of Montreal, Quantitative Audit Manager, Internal Audit, 2016

  • PwC, Senior Associate, Financial Risk Management, 2014-2016

• Co-op Intern

  • Morneau-Shepell, Coop Actuarial Analyst, Pension Plan Administration, 2011-2012

• Other

  • Pierre-Janet Mental Health Hospital, Patients' attendant, 2009-2011

  • Canadian Forces, Royal Military College, Officer-Cadet, 2008-2009

Publications

• Burda, M. & Bélisle, L. (2019). Copula multivariate GARCH model with constrained Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. Dependence Modeling, 7(1), pp. 133-149. 

Teaching Experience

• • Sessional Lecturer - University of Toronto

    • ECO358 - Financial Economics I, Winter 2023 - present

  • Guest Instructor– University of Toronto:

    • GMCA miniMBA and Business Fundamentals, Subject: Economics, February, July 2020

  • Teaching Assistant – University of Toronto:

    • ECO2404 - Empirical Applications of Economic Theory, Winter 2021

    • ECO349 – Money, Banking, and Financial Markets, Summer 2018, 2019, 2020

    • ECO2503 – Financial Economics (MFE and MA), Fall 2018, Winter 2019, Fall 2020

    • ECO464/2511 – Empirical Financial Economics, Fall 2017 and Winter 2019

    • ECO220 – Quantitative Methods in Economics, Yearlong 2016, 17, 18, 19

    • ECO460 – Financial Risk Management, Fall 2018

    • ECO462/2411 – Financial Econometrics, Fall 2017 and 2020

  • Workshop Instructor – University of Waterloo:

    • Financial Statements Modelling and Fundamental Analysis, Summer 2014

  • Teaching Assistant – University of Waterloo:

    • MATH115 – Linear Algebra for Engineers, Fall 2012, 2013

  • Teaching Assistant – University of Ottawa:

    • MAT1730 – Differential Equations for Life Sciences, Fall 2011

    • MAT1541 – Linear Algebra for Business, Fall 2010

    • MAT1722 – Calculus II, Winter 2011

Presentations

• American Finance Association, PhD Poster Session - Virtual, January 2021

• Canadian Economics Association (CEA) Conference - Toronto, ON, 2020 (cancelled), 2021 (virtual)

• Congrès annuel de la Société canadienne de science économique (SCSE) - Ottawa, ON, 2020 (cancelled)

• Midwest Econometrics Group - Columbus, OH, 2019

• Doctoral Workshop in Applied Econometrics - Toronto, ON, 2019

• Financial Economics Seminar - University of Toronto, ON, 2018 - 2020

Awards

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2020

• Fellowship, PhD, University of Toronto, 2017

• Fellowship, Master's Doctoral Stream, University of Toronto, 2016

• NSERC Alexander G. Bell Master’s Canada Scholarship, 2013

• University of Waterloo President’s Scholarship, 2013

• FRQNT Master’s Research Scholarship: Ranked 1st in Financial Mathematics, 2013

• Linis Mathematic’s Scholarship for Excellence , University of Ottawa, 2011

• Canadian Undergraduate Award, Golden Key International Honour Society , 2011

Computer Skills

• R, Matlab, Python, Azure Synapse, Stata, LaTeX, MS Office (Power BI, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

Languages

• French (native), English (fluent, E-C-E)