Francesco Setti

Francesco Setti is an Algorithmic Trader at TransMarket Group since September 2023, bringing a strong background in high-energy physics research. Prior experience includes serving as a Doctoral Researcher at CERN from March 2020 to August 2023, where Francesco designed firmware for Kintex Ultrascale FPGAs for data acquisition and optical communication at the CMS detector, focusing on high-speed data transfer. Additionally, Francesco led the search for the Higgs boson at UC Santa Barbara, analyzing extensive datasets and applying machine learning techniques for statistical evidence of new particles. Academic qualifications include a PhD in Elementary Particle Physics from UC Santa Barbara and an MS in Physics from Imperial College London, where Francesco developed algorithms for particle classification during the Master's thesis.