Ignacio Darago

Ignacio Darago is a quantitative researcher at Squarepoint in New York and a mathematician. He represented Argentina at the 2012 International Mathematical Olympiad, winning a bronze medal, and earned a PhD in mathematics at the University of Chicago (2017-2022), specializing in algebraic geometry and representation theory. He now applies that background in quantitative finance.

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• Completed a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Chicago (2017 to 2022), then moved into quantitative finance as a Quantitative Researcher at Squarepoint in New York from 2022.2022
• Represented Argentina at IMO 2012 in Mar del Plata, winning a bronze medal (17 of 42 points, ranked 182nd of 547); perfect scores of 7 on problems 1 and 4.Jul 2012
• Co-authored 'Arithmetic inflection of superelliptic curves' (arXiv 2110.04813), published in the Michigan Mathematical Journal, on the inflectionary behavior of linear series on superelliptic curves.Oct 2021
• Maintains a personal site (idarago.github.io) with posts using Buenos Aires open data and building a neural network from scratch in C++, showing applied ML and data-visualization interests beyond pure math.2021
• Full name Ignacio Martin Darago; competed out of Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, one of Argentina's most selective public secondary schools.2012