Adan Medrano Martin del Campo

Adan Medrano Martin del Campo is a mathematician and quantitative researcher. He earned a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in August 2022 (advisors Benson Farb and Eduard Looijenga), after a BS in Mathematics from MIT (2017, GPA 4.9/5.0, Phi Beta Kappa). He represented Mexico at the International Mathematical Olympiad, winning silver in 2012 and bronze in 2013, and has since coached Mexican olympiad teams. He joined Radix Trading LLC as a Quantitative Researcher in 2022, applying a research-mathematics background to systematic trading.

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• Earlier employment assessment (superseded): CONFIRMED. Adan Medrano holds an actual quantitative-finance role at Radix Trading LLC, and identity is supported across independent primary sources. Evidence URLs: (1) his own academic homepage http://math.uchicago.edu/~amedrano/ states "I will start a Quantitative Research role at Radix Trading"; (2) LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/amedranomdelc lists a continuing Quantitative Researcher role at Radix Trading LLC (indexed start Oct 2022, Chicago); (3) his CV/resume http://math.uchicago.edu/~amedrano/Resume_AdanMedranoMartinDelCampo.pdf and IMO records https://www.imo-official.org/results/contestant/21783/ corroborate the same person (Mexico IMO 2012/2013, MIT BS, UChicago PhD). Employer classification: Radix Trading LLC (radixtrading.co) is a proprietary electronic/algorithmic trading firm whose own materials describe it as a research firm monetized through trading major electronic markets, i.e. genuine quantitative/systematic trading, not merely a name containing 'quant'. The role is a full-time research position, not a student program, insight day, camp, scholarship, or incoming offer. Limitation: the exact current status and dates rest partly on LinkedIn-index data; the primary confirmation is his own homepage statement of taking the role.
• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The saved research did not establish a single unambiguous supported employment verdict. Existing employment claims and source qualifications are retained above; conflicting earlier assessments are superseded by this unresolved status. This is a review of the saved research, not new independent employment evidence.
• PhD in Mathematics, University of Chicago, August 2022, thesis 'Monodromy of some families of cubic and quartic surfaces', advised by Benson Farb and Eduard Looijenga; MS in Mathematics from UChicago (March 2019); BS in Mathematics from MIT (June 2017, GPA 4.9/5.0).
• Represented Mexico at the International Mathematical Olympiad twice, earning Silver in 2012 (Mar del Plata, Argentina) and Bronze in 2013 (Santa Marta, Colombia), per his own resume.
• Published research in algebraic geometry/topology: 'Monodromy of the family of del Pezzo and K3 surfaces branching over smooth quartic curves' (preprint, arXiv 2112.14836), 'Monodromy of the family of cubic surfaces branching over smooth cubic curves' (to appear, Annales de l'Institut Fourier; arXiv 1910.09593), and 'Tropical Embeddings of Metric Graphs' (2016, arXiv 1604.06176).
• Co-founded InsOMMnia, a ~3,000-member Facebook-based Mexican mathematical-olympiad community, and has coached/led state and national olympiad teams for multiple national and international competitions since 2011.
• Timeline: he completed his PhD in August 2022, and the Radix Trading Quantitative Researcher role is indexed with a start of October 2022; no other industry roles are listed between his academic positions and Radix.
• His industry resume lists coursework in LeetCode algorithms/data structures and Kaggle machine learning, deep learning, Pandas, time-series and SQL.
• Taught three year-long undergraduate calculus courses as a Lecturer at the University of Chicago (Sept 2019 - March 2022) and mentored 3 undergraduates per summer in the UChicago REU (2018-2020), and tutored undergraduates at the MIT Math Learning Center (2014-2015).
• Summer 2016 Summer International Research Intern in Mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique per his LinkedIn education entries, in addition to MIT UROP and SPUR research programs supervised by Roger Casals and Andrei Negut.
• Teaching excellence recognized with the Lawrence & Josephine Graves Teaching Prize (2021) at the University of Chicago; earlier academic honors include Phi Beta Kappa (2017), the Phil Bannister Marfuta Memorial Scholarship at MIT (2015), and Mexico's Premio Fundacion Pedro Sarquis Merrewe (2013) for representing Mexico at international math olympiads.
• Musician as well as mathematician: released 'Gradient' with the progressive-rock project Planium (2022), available on Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Apple Music, Bandcamp and Deezer, and self-describes as 'Quantitative Researcher, Mathematician, Musician'.