Adrian Soviani

Adrian Soviani is a Romanian computer scientist and engineer, a two-time IOI gold medalist for Romania (1993, 1994) who went on to MIT (B.S. and M.Eng. in Computer Science) and a Princeton PhD in Computer Science focused on high-performance/parallel computing. His career spans Akamai R&D (internet topology mapping, 1999-2002), a securities-division associate role at Goldman Sachs (2010-2011), and a High Frequency Trading Systems role at the quantitative hedge fund Two Sigma Investments (2011-2013), before a long tenure at Google from 2014 in Project Fi / EPC Analytics. His finance exposure is real but historical and systems-focused rather than quant-research.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Evidence: the LinkedIn index lists a past employment entry 'High Frequency Trading Systems' at Two Sigma Investments (twosigma.com) for 2011-2013, and the identity behind that record is supported by the independent IOI/MIT/Princeton sources. Employer classification: Two Sigma Investments is a bona fide systematic/quantitative hedge fund (quantitative investment manager). The entry is a real role, not a competition, camp, scholarship or incoming offer, so a genuine past position at a quantitative investment firm is established; its title describes trading-systems engineering rather than a quant-research or portfolio-management seat. No source shows current employment at Two Sigma or any other quant firm.2011
• Identity is corroborated across independent sources: the IOI Hall of Fame and IOI statistics profiles (Adrian Soviani, Romania, IOI 1993 and 1994) match the LinkedIn professional record (Princeton CS PhD, MIT B.S./M.Eng., Google, Two Sigma, Goldman Sachs, Akamai) and the MIT Romanian Student Association alumni page that lists the same person's Princeton address, so all cited facts describe one individual.Oct 25, 1993
• Current role on record is Project Fi / EPC Analytics at Google (2014-present), based in the San Francisco Bay Area. [index-only claim: the 2014-present Google role and dates come from the LinkedIn index and are not independently confirmed by a second source; no evidence of current quant/trading employment.]2014
• After the Princeton PhD he held two consecutive finance roles before Google: Associate, Core Strategies, Securities Division at Goldman Sachs (2010-2011), then 'High Frequency Trading Systems' at Two Sigma Investments (2011-2013); both are listed past employment entries and both sit between the PhD and the 2014 move to Google. [index-only claim: role titles and dates from the LinkedIn index]2010
• Won two IOI gold medals for Romania (1993 Mendoza, Argentina - rank 11-13, 186 pts; 1994 - 165 pts, 6th place) while a student at Tudor Vianu National High School of Computer Science, Bucharest.
• Education is an unbroken computer-science line: MIT B.S. (1995-1999) and M.Eng. (2000-2002) in Computer Science, then a Princeton PhD in Computer Science / high-performance computing (2004-2014) advised by J.P. Singh; no finance or economics degree. [index-only claim: MIT/Princeton dates from the LinkedIn index]2014
• The counterpart finance role, Associate in Core Strategies within the Securities Division at Goldman Sachs (2010-2011), is at a bank's securities division adjacent to systematic trading; Goldman Sachs classifies as a global investment bank with major quant/markets activity. Both finance roles are in the past (2010-2013), and no source shows any finance role after 2013. [index-only claim for title and dates]2010
• The MIT Romanian Student Association alumni page independently places Adrian Soviani at Princeton ([contact omitted]), corroborating the Princeton affiliation and linking the olympiad identity to the same person whose professional record runs Akamai -> Goldman Sachs -> Two Sigma -> Google.
• Princeton PhD completion is fixed c. 2014 by the department talks-list announcement of his final public oral (FPO) on Friday 2 May 2014, committee J.P. Singh (advisor) and Kai Li among others - placing the two finance roles after his PhD and immediately before Google.May 2, 2014
• Akamai R&D in internet topology mapping (1999-2002) produced a co-invented patent, US7251688B2 'Method for generating a network map', alongside F. T. Leighton, R. Sundaram and M. Levine - the networking-research foundation of his early career.
• Published academic work in parallel/systems computing (IPDPSW 2012 'Estimating Application Hierarchical Bandwidth Requirements Using BSP Family Models'; ICPP 2009 'Optimizing Communication Scheduling Using Dataflow Semantics'), co-authored with J.P. Singh - a parallel-systems publication record, with no finance or trading papers.
• The LinkedIn index records Akamai's company domain as 'linode.com', which is wrong (Akamai is akamai.com); employer names and role titles in the index are reliable, but its domain codes are not, so domains should be taken from the company itself. [index-quality caveat]