- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- Point72Quantitative Research Intern
- Now
- Jump Trading
- Olympiads
- IMO silver 2017, bronze 2016, 2018IMO 2016BronzeIMO 2017SilverIMO 2018Bronze
Overlapped before Cognition
Details
LocationUnited States
LanguagesArabic, English, French, German
UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology
C++PythonLaTeXgitJavaNumPyAsymptoteObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Notes
- Left Windsurf/Cognition in January 2026 and started as Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Jump Trading in New York in January 2026, returning to the firm where he had a 2022 Chicago software-engineering internship; his X bio now reads 'prev ML @windsurf'.Jan 2026
- His Windsurf role description says verbatim: "Helping the team with the transition after the Google Deepmind acquisition, as I wait for my export license ( to join GDM )".Jul 2025
- Joined Windsurf (formerly Codeium) as ML Research Engineer in Mountain View in March 2025, right after finishing his MIT MEng (Feb 2025); his LinkedIn says he contributed to curating evaluation and training datasets for SWE-1, Windsurf's in-house software-engineering model, plus data pipelines and reward signals.Mar 2025
- Quant internship track before Windsurf: Jump Trading Group software engineering intern (Chicago, Jun-Aug 2022), Vatic Labs quantitative research intern (New York, Jun-Aug 2023), Point72 quantitative research intern (New York, Jun-Aug 2024).Aug 2024
- Mark Jabbour represented Syria at the 2018 IMO, scoring 7 on P1, 4 on P2, 0 on P3, 0 on P4, 7 on P5, 0 on P6, total 18, rank 228, Bronze medal.2018
- Mark Jabbour competed for Syria (SYR) at the 2018 IMO, ranked 228 (61.8%), award B, 18 points (P1: 7, P2: 4, P3: 0, P4: 0, P5: 7, P6: 0).2018
- Mark Jabbour represented Syria at the 2017 IMO, scoring 7 on P1, 7 on P2, 0 on P3, 7 on P4, 0 on P5, 0 on P6, total 21, rank 82, Silver medal.2017
- Mark Jabbour competed for Syria (SYR) at the 2017 IMO, ranked 82 (86.8%), award S, 21 points (P1: 7, P2: 7, P3: 0, P4: 7, P5: 0, P6: 0).2017
- Mark Jabbour represented Syria at the 2016 IMO, scoring 7 on P1, 2 on P2, 0 on P3, 7 on P4, 2 on P5, 0 on P6, total 18, rank 206, Bronze medal.2016
- Mark Jabbour competed for Syria (SYR) at the 2016 IMO, ranked 206 (66.0%), award B, 18 points (P1: 7, P2: 2, P3: 0, P4: 7, P5: 2, P6: 0).2016
- Mark Jabbour won a bronze medal in mathematics for the Syrian Science Olympiad team at the 57th International Mathematical Olympiad in Hong Kong.2016
- Mark Jabbour was a member of the Syrian Science Olympiad mathematics team, alongside Mohammad Hneino and Ghaith al-Zahili (medalists) and Hafez al-Assad, Ahmad Mehrz and Julnar Shahoud (certificate recipients).2016
Experience
Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Jump Trading
Jan 2026 - Present
New York City Metropolitan Area
ML Research Engineer at Windsurf
Mar 2025 - Jan 2026
Mountain View, CA
* Contributed to a set of heuristics and LLM-based methods to find interesting subsets of user data * Contributed to curating evaluation and training datasets for SWE-1 * Contributed to our data processing pipelines and reward signals * Helping the team with the transition after the Google Deepmind acquisition, as I wait for my export license ( to join GDM )
Quantitative Research Intern at Point72
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
New York, United States
Quantitative Research Intern at Vatic Labs
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
New York, United States
Software Engineering Internship at Jump Trading Group
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
Masters of Engineering, Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science
Projects
Formal Verification of a Distributed Lock Service (MIT SuperUROP, supervisor Nickolai Zeldovich)
Simplified sFFT implementation (MIT UROP, Piotr Indyk)
MIT Battlecode / Battlehack 2020 engine
SWE-1 eval and training datasets at Windsurf
Physics benchmark expert re-grading (arXiv:2609.13009, github.com/Allliance/physics-benchmarks)
AchievementsIMO 2016 Bronze medal (Syria, 18 pts, rank 206) · IMO 2017 Silver medal (Syria, 21 pts, rank 82) · IMO 2018 Bronze medal (Syria, 18 pts, rank 228) · MIT SuperUROP Citadel Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar (2022-2023)
Recent posts
January 2026
Super excited to try Composer, and anything else Kevin cooks!
AwardsIMO 2016 Bronze medal (Syria, 18 pts, rank 206) · IMO 2017 Silver medal (Syria, 21 pts, rank 82) · IMO 2018 Bronze medal (Syria, 18 pts, rank 228) · MIT SuperUROP Citadel Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar (2022-2023)
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