Ahmed Asini

Ahmed Asini is a Moroccan mathematics student and a 2017 International Mathematical Olympiad bronze medallist (Morocco, rank 188 of 615). He attended CPGE Moulay Youssef in the MP* track (2017-2019) before earning an Engineer's degree in Applied Mathematics - Computer Science at École Polytechnique (2019-2022). Since 2021 he has worked as a Research Assistant at École Polytechnique on missing data in time series, supervised by Julie Josse and François Husson. His LinkedIn profile also lists a 2021 Quantitative Researcher role at Andurand Capital Management LLP in London.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Ahmed Asini's LinkedIn profile lists a Quantitative Researcher role at ANDURAND CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLP (London) in 2021, alongside his École Polytechnique Engineer's degree and mathematics profile, which supports the identity. Employed as an aggregator/index claim rather than independent primary confirmation, but Andurand Capital Management LLP itself is verified from its own website as a private fund-manager/hedge fund running fundamental commodity strategies in oil and energy (andurandcapital.com), i.e. a genuine commodities trading firm, so the 'quant' label reflects a real trading-finance employer rather than a name coincidence. The role is dated only to 2021 (no months confirmed beyond the caller hint of June-September 2021); no independent third-party source corroborating the specific role was found, and a same-name listing of 'Quantitative Trader at Millennium' on an aggregator's 'similar people' widget could not be tied to this person and is not treated as evidence.2021
• Andurand Capital Management LLP, where his profile lists a 2021 Quantitative Researcher role, is verified as a London-based private fund manager specialising in fundamental commodity strategies with a focus on oil and energy (founder/CIO Pierre Andurand), i.e. a hedge fund rather than a technology firm, so the role sits in commodity/quantitative trading finance.2021
• His and Andurand's other quantitative researchers carry the same title (e.g. 'Quantitative Researcher for Commodities systematic trading'), which suggests the 2021 Quantitative Researcher slot was a standing summer-internship-shaped position at the firm rather than a bespoke role, though this person's own dates and intern status are not independently documented.2021
• Two distinct aggregator/index records for the name exist: index id taiga-790624946 (linkedin.com/in/ahmed-asini, École Polytechnique) and a second person (linkedin.com/in/ahmed-asini-94b401140, linked to Air France) - the second is treated as a different individual and not merged.2026
• He was a finalist in the 2021 Numberly #DataChallenge, an applied data-science competition run with École Polytechnique and HEC Paris (edition announced mid-2021, alongside teammates Paul Tarbouriech, Victor Acker and Marouane Bachikh) - a competition, not employment.Jun 2021
• Candidate but UNVERIFIED social lead: the X handle @ahmed_asini describes itself as 'AoPS' based in Paris, France (joined September 2016) - mathematically consistent with an olympiad profile, but the account could not be read or cross-linked to confirm ownership, so it is not saved as a verified URL.Sep 2016
• He holds a Kaggle account (ahmedasini) listing 'Student at Ecole Polytechnique', Paris, joined ~2020 with one competition entry and two discussion posts; the profile has been inactive for about three years, suggesting Kaggle is not an active surface.2020