Alejandra Quintos

Alejandra Quintos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Nellie McKay Fellow. She holds a joint appointment as Visiting Professor at UNAM's Instituto de Matemáticas. Her work focuses on probability, stochastic processes, and their applications to mathematical finance and credit risk theory. Quintos completed her Ph.D. in Statistics at Columbia University under Prof. Philip Protter, where she was a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the Howard Levene Teaching Award.

Education: Ph.D. in Statistics (Columbia University, 2022), B.S. in Actuarial Sciences (Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Summa Cum Laude, Valedictorian). Research interests include systemic risk measurement, optimal group size in microlending, and stochastic modeling of contagion processes in finance and epidemiology. She has been a finalist for Columbia's Presidential Teaching Award twice.

Teaching includes graduate-level courses on stochastic processes in finance and mathematical statistics at UW-Madison. Previously, she mentored undergraduate research projects on Alzheimer’s network modeling and discrete-event market simulations. Active in academic service, she has also completed 8 marathons including the NYC and Chicago Marathons.