Akshay Degwekar

Akshay Degwekar is a computer scientist and quantitative-finance professional. He represented India at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2010 (Astana, Kazakhstan), was a member of the IIT Madras theory group, and earned a PhD in Computer Science from MIT in 2019 (research in fine-grained complexity and cryptography, incl. 'Fine-Grained Cryptography' with Vaikuntanathan and Vasudevan). Directory/enrichment records list him since August 2019 as a Vice President at Two Sigma in New York; that employment is aggregator-corroborated rather than confirmed by a primary Two Sigma source. No prior quantitative-finance employer or internship surfaced.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED (aggregator-corroborated, not primary-source-confirmed). Akshay Degwekar's LinkedIn-derived enrichment record and two independent people-directory records each show a Two Sigma role in New York. Classification: Two Sigma Investments is a quantitative-focused investment manager/hedge fund (financial services), so the employer operates in quantitative finance. Evidence rest is aggregator-only (no primary Two Sigma page, no 10-K/press mention located). No past quant employer or internship was found; the detected role is 'Vice President' from 2019-08 with no end date, so currency reflects directory data, not a live check.Sep 17, 2026
• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Identity: Akshay Degwekar is the IMO 2010 India-team participant (Pune), IIT Madras theory group member, and MIT Computer Science PhD (2019) whose cryptography/complexity publications ('Fine-Grained Cryptography'; 'Structure Versus Hardness Through the Obfuscation Lens') appear under his name - the education and publication record fixes the identity independently of the employer. Actual role: a Two Sigma 'Vice President' role in New York with a 2019-08 start is reported by the LinkedIn-derived enrichment index and indexed by ZoomInfo and RocketReach (both aggregators, likely derivative of the same LinkedIn data); no primary Two Sigma page names him, so this rests on aggregator/index evidence, not independent primary confirmation. Employer classification: Two Sigma Investments LP is an American hedge fund / quantitative investment manager (Wikipedia; twosigma.com), so the employer operates in quantitative finance - the role is at an actual quant firm, not merely a company whose name contains 'quant'. No internship or other quant-finance role (bank, asset manager, energy or crypto trading) was found. Confidence is capped by the absence of a primary-source employer record.Sep 17, 2026
• A RocketReach directory record ties the Two Sigma 'Vice President' role (2019 - now, New York, NY) to an MIT PhD in Computer Science and an IIT Madras B.Tech - the same profile stacks the education and the employer in one record.
• The Two Sigma Vice President role is reported by multiple independent aggregators (LinkedIn-derived enrichment index, RocketReach, ZoomInfo), all consistent on title and New York location, but none of these is a primary Two Sigma source and they are likely derivative of the same underlying LinkedIn data; identity is supported by the convergent IMO/IITM/MIT record, not by an employer page.
• Mathematics Genealogy records a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019.Jan 1, 2019
• Named on India's IMO 2010 team (Astana, Kazakhstan), the same team as Akashnil Dutta and Gaurav Patil.Jul 1, 2010
• Trained in the IIT Madras theory group (research interest: pseudo-randomness for space-bounded computation) before moving to the MIT PhD program.
• Timeline coherence: IMO 2010 (age ~17) -> IIT Madras B.Tech -> MIT PhD (awarded 2019) -> Two Sigma VP from 2019-08; the sequence fits a single continuous academic-to-industry path and the education/employer hand-off is same-year, though no source states the transition explicitly.
• The IMO 2010 India participant list pairs him with twin brother Anand Degwekar; both were Pune students.May 29, 2010
• Listed as a CSAIL MIT researcher in the Complexity Theory and Cryptography & Information Security groups.
• Co-authored 'Fine-Grained Cryptography' with Vinod Vaikuntanathan and Prashant Nalini Vasudevan - research at the intersection of fine-grained complexity and cryptography.
• Vaikuntanathan's publication list (MIT CSAIL) names him across multiple crypto/complexity papers (e.g. 'Structure Versus Hardness Through the Obfuscation Lens').