Aaron Naidu

Passionate about mathematical, computational and algorithmic problem solving, with numerous accolades in the most challenging national and international problem solving competitions.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Aaron Naidu held an actual Quantitative Trading Internship at Jane Street (London) from July to September 2024, where his own profile states he ran research projects on past market data and coded automated trading systems in simulated markets. Jane Street is a global quantitative trading firm / market maker (systematic/algo trading is its core business), so the employer classification is genuinely quantitative finance, and the role is employment (an internship), not a competition, camp or insight day. Identity is supported by the IOI 2020 South Africa bronze medalist, UKZN and Oxford education chain and the matching LinkedIn profile.
• IOI 2020 identity confirmed: Aaron Naidu represented South Africa and won a bronze medal (rank 143/343, 269.25/600), the same competition named in the task brief.Sep 19, 2020
• Jane Street internship dates: July 2024 to September 2024, London, per his LinkedIn experience entry; this is an internship (employment), distinct from competitions.
• Index/LinkedIn record lists a Quantitative Researcher role at Susquehanna International Group (SIG) in Sydney, Australia, dated from 2026 with no end date; this is a LinkedIn/index-sourced claim and is labelled index-only - current employment should not be inferred solely from the index/date and could not be independently corroborated beyond the profile.
• Career trajectory reads as competitor-to-quant: parallel maths/informatics olympiad success and a statistics degree, followed by a fundamental asset-management internship (Allan Gray, 2022), a quantitative trading internship (Jane Street, 2024) and an MSc in statistics (Oxford, 2024-2025), then a quant research role (SIG). The Oxford MSc statistics step sits between the two internships and suggests a deliberate move from fundamental into quantitative work.Mar 2024
• SIG (Susquehanna International Group) is a global proprietary trading firm and market maker - a genuine quantitative trading employer, not merely a company with 'quant' in its name; quantitative research/trading is its core function.
• Allan Gray Proprietary Limited internship (2022, Cape Town) was an Investment Analyst Intern role estimating company fair values and making stock buy/sell recommendations; Allan Gray is a traditional fundamental/value asset manager in South Africa, NOT a quantitative or systematic trading firm, so it does not qualify as quantitative-finance employment.
• Cross-linked to his high-school/chess/maths record (World Youth Chess Championships 2014), confirming the Olympiad Aaron Naidu is the Durban, Eden College student who later studied at UKZN, not a namesake.Mar 2024
• Completed BSc Data Science at UKZN summa cum laude in 2022, placing in the top 3% of every module while adding six modules - a statistics/computer-science foundation that predates his quant internships.Mar 2024
• Completed BSc Honours in Statistics at UKZN in 2023 and won the Zac Yacoob Scholarship for the best honours student at UKZN across all Colleges and Disciplines; invited to present at the 2023 South African Statistics Association Conference.Mar 2024
• Began an MSc in Statistical Science at the University of Oxford in October 2024, described in his profile as a top Oxford MSc Statistics student.Mar 2024
• Started UKZN BSc in Data Science in 2020, the same year he competed at IOI 2020 while a first-year UKZN student - competitions and university study overlapped, so the IOI result is not employment.Nov 19, 2020