IonQ's Quantum Platform When Quantum meets Finance - Augusto Carvalho

Augusto Carvalho is a Quantum Solution Engineer at IonQ focused on the applications to the financial industry. With over two decades of experience in quantitative finance (especially around derivatives modeling), he worked with a wide array of key industry sectors: credit card, derivatives exchange, banking, risk analytics vendor, and lecturing (grad and undergrad). Augusto's journey includes hands-on roles at investment banks (Unicredit, in Italy, and BNP Paribas in Brazil), mobile payment startup, derivatives exchange B3, where he also served as a lecturer and R&D for the product team. His expertise in advanced analytics was further solidified through significant positions at software leaders like SAS and Numerix, where he rose to VP for Latin America, specializing in enterprise banking and hedge fund solutions for derivatives pricing and risk.Grounded in a Master's in Physics (Econophysics) and a specialized Master's in Complex System applied to Financial Risk Management, Augusto now channels his extensive industry and academic knowledge to bridge the gap between complex financial challenges and quantum technology.