Florian Meier

Florian Meier is the Liechtenstein contestant who represented his country at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2007, 2008 and 2009, winning bronze in 2007 and 2009 and an honourable mention in 2008. He later pursued theoretical computer science at ETH Zurich, becoming a PhD student in Angelika Steger's Combinatorial Structures and Algorithms group, researching the theory of learning in artificial and bio-plausible neural networks.

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• Represented Liechtenstein at three consecutive IMOs (2007, 2008, 2009) with two bronzes and an honourable mention - one of the strongest recurring IMO contestants from a small country.Jul 2009
• By 2018 a fourth-year PhD student at ETH Zurich in Angelika Steger's Combinatorial Structures and Algorithms group, moving from olympiad maths into the theory of learning in artificial and bio-plausible neural networks.2018
• Co-authored 'Fast-Slow Recurrent Neural Networks' (NIPS 2017) with Asier Mujika and Angelika Steger and 'Approximating Real-Time Recurrent Learning with Random Kronecker Factors' (NeurIPS 2018).2017
• Progressed from bronze (14 pts, 2007) to honourable mention (13 pts, 2008) to bronze (19 pts, 2009); the 2009 score was his strongest and his rank (198) his highest, suggesting continued improvement through the olympiad years.Jul 2009
• Publishes at the neuroscience-CS boundary, including a hippocampal memory-replay model on bioRxiv and work in Nature Scientific Reports and Hippocampus.2018