Adam Klukowski

Polish Olympiad mathematician (IMO gold 2015, silver 2016; IChO silver 2016) turned researcher. Cambridge mathematics (BA 2016-2019, MASt 2019-2020), then Huawei UK ML researcher (2020-2022) on deep-learning theory, a 2022 stint as ML engineer at CHARM Therapeutics, and a PhD in geometric topology at Oxford (2022-2026). Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn from Sept 2026. One quant-finance role: Quantitative Research Intern, Citadel Securities, London, 2019.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Actual quant-finance internship: Quantitative Research Intern at Citadel Securities, London, 2019 (LinkedIn experience section), in the gap between his Cambridge BA and MASt; Citadel Securities is a genuine quantitative market-maker (systematic electronic trading), so this is real quant employment, not a student program. His other roles are NOT quant-finance: Samsung engineering intern 2017, Cambridge chemistry summer researcher 2018, Huawei ML researcher 2020-2022, CHARM Therapeutics ML engineer 2022. No other trading/hedge-fund/asset-manager/energy/crypto-trading role is evidenced; identity confirmed by the co-located Olympiad, Cambridge/Oxford and Huawei records.Jul 2019
• Now postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn (2026-09-01 to 2028-08-31; topology/low-dimensional topology/mapping class groups) — a decisive move from industry back to a full academic research track.Sep 2026
• IMO record: represented Poland twice, gold 2015 (31 pts) and silver 2016 (23 pts) as a student of XIV LO im. Staszica, Warsaw — the identity anchor tying the profile to a nationally elite math record.Jul 2016
• LinkedIn still surfaces CHARM Therapeutics as his top experience while the MPIM listing and his 2022-2026 PhD timeline postdate it; the index is stale on his present role, so employment here is recorded from the MPIM page with that conflict flagged rather than asserted from the index.Sep 2026
• Cross-source read: three phases — competitor (IMO/IChO 2015-2016), industry ML (Samsung 2017, Cambridge 2018, Huawei 2020-2022, CHARM 2022), and pure maths (Oxford PhD 2022-2026, MPIM 2026) — with the sole quant detour a 2019 Citadel internship, so a quant-finance career is NOT the throughline despite the quant-coded lead.Sep 2026
• PhD in Mathematics at Oxford (2022-2026) on geometric topology; thesis/central paper 'Simple closed curves, non-kernel homology and Magnus embedding' (arXiv 2023; LMS 2025), a genuine research doctorate.Apr 2023
• Cambridge mathematics (BA 2016-2019, MASt 2019-2020) then a Citadel Securities quant internship in the 2019 summer gap — the linear elite-maths-to-quant-firm pipeline, before he veered to research instead.2020
• Supervised at Oxford by Martin Bridson with Dawid Kielak co-supervising (Kielak's page lists him as a student; a 2025 paper thanks 'his Ph.D. supervisor Martin Bridson for general guidance'), fixing his doctoral lineage in geometric group theory.2025
• Huawei Noah's Ark Lab deep-learning-theory papers ('Exact Count of Boundary Pieces of ReLU Classifiers'; 'Rate of Convergence of Polynomial Networks to Gaussian Processes', UAI 2022) show his 2020-2022 industry phase was genuine ML research, not engineering support — a math talent redirected into ML theory before returning to pure maths.Jun 2022
• Also took silver at the International Chemistry Olympiad 2016, a rare math-plus-chemistry double showing breadth beyond a single-subject specialist.Jul 2016
• Active seminar presence in his PhD years (KCL maths department 10 Jun 2025; Oxford Geometric Group Theory seminar on tangles in random covers) — talks that mark a researcher already circulating in the field.Jun 2025
• 'Tangle Free Permutations and the Putman-Wieland Property', IMRN 2024, is collaborative journal-placed work — evidence of a functioning research group around him, not a lone student.Oct 2024