Sidharth Puthiyedathu Suresh

Sidharth Puthiyedathu Suresh is a Mathematics and Computer Science undergraduate at University College, Oxford, and the most decorated math Olympiad competitor the UAE has produced: he won the country's first-ever IMO medal, a bronze, at IMO 2023 (20/42), and was an honourable mention at the 8th ICMC Round Two in 2025. He schooled at Abu Dhabi Indian School (Al Muroor) and was a 2021 and 2022 Sophie Fellow and a 2022/2023 IMOTC participant. He has worked as a Quantitative Trader Intern at Optiver.

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• Won the UAE's first-ever IMO medal -- bronze at IMO 2023 with 20/42 -- making him the trailblazer for UAE olympiad maths.
• Awarded the Oxford Department of Computer Science Prize for Mathematics & Computer Science (first-year exams), indicating top-of-cohort performance at Oxford.
• Optiver quantitative trader internship (2025) -- the standard top-of-funnel role that converts to a graduate quant trading offer, suggesting a finance path alongside CS.
• Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMO) awardee 2022-2023, i.e. he competed in India's national olympiad pipeline (HBCSE) while based in the UAE.
• 2021 and 2022 Sophie Fellow and 2022/2023 IMOTC participant -- an early trajectory through India's math-olympiad training ecosystem before the UAE IMO cap.
• Gave a 1h25m lecture 'Quadratic Residues' at the Unofficial IMOTC 2022 (Online Math Club) -- already teaching peers as a school student.
• Honourable mention at the 8th ICMC Round Two (Feb 2025, scored 30/40) -- still competing at a high level into university.
• Attended Abu Dhabi Indian School (Al Muroor) in the UAE, where he was the overall topper, the school pipeline that fed his olympiad start before Oxford.