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Teodor Andrei Andronache

AI Acceleration at Perplexity; former Staff Software Engineer at Meta; IMO silver medalist (Romania 2014-2016)
Perplexity · United States · engineer

Teodor Andrei Andronache is a Romanian mathematician and software engineer. He represented Romania at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2014, 2015 and 2016, winning a silver medal each time. He studied Mathematics at Princeton University and went on to work as a Staff Software Engineer at Meta; he is now based in the United States, leading AI Acceleration at Perplexity.

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LocationUnited States
Company siteperplexity.ai
UniversityPrinceton University
Notes
  • Studied Mathematics at Princeton University, then joined Meta as a Staff Software Engineer before moving to Perplexity to lead 'AI Acceleration' - a math-olympiad-to-big-tech-to-AI-lab trajectory.2024
  • Won silver medals at the IMO all three years he competed for Romania: 2014 (27 pts, rank 69), 2015 (23 pts, rank 58), 2016 (23 pts, rank 114) - a consistent top-tier competitor, never lower than silver.Jul 2016
  • In 10th grade (2014) placed 1st at the Romanian national mathematics olympiad, per his high school ICHB's post - the national title that fed his IMO selection.Apr 10, 2014

Competition record

Romania · IMO

2014 · Silver · Rank 692015 · Silver · Rank 582016 · Silver · Rank 114