

Maria Saab
About
Quantitative Finance
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Skills
100% Financing
Adaptive Leadership
Analytical Capability
Applied Mathematics
Open for
fulltime
internship
freelancer
Work Experience
ETH and UZH
2025-10 -
Master's thesis- Portfolio Optimization using General Hyperbolic distributions
Zürich
thesis
• Extended an advanced statistical framework to forecast equity returns from Student’s t-distributions to heterogeneous multivariate models, enhancing portfolio optimization by capturing volatility dynamics, asymmetry, and cross-asset dependencies.
UZH
2024-09 - 2024-12
Predicting CDS Movements for Optimal Risk Management
Zürich
freelancer
• Analyzed the use of CDS to help a gas company hedge against risks caused by fluctuations in the oil and gas market and the risk of their supplier defaulting.
American University of Beirut
2023-08 - 2024-03
Research Assistant
Beirut, Lebanon
parttime
• Conducted data collection and cross-analysis from multiple sources to examine the impact of gender and social class on education. Digitalized and organized archival records to support a large-scale research project on the long-term influence of historical ruling classes on today’s economy.
Academic Experience
ETH Zurich -
2024.09 - 2026.04
Master of Science, MSc in Quantitative Finance
American University of Beirut -
2021.08 - 2024.06
Bachelor of Science, BSc in Applied Mathematics
Stanford University -
2023.05 - 2023.08
Bachelor of Science, BSc in General Studies