Alexander Matushkin

I've been doing quantitative research at WorldQuant since 2017. Currently I'm Regional…

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• His own LinkedIn profile text states 'Before finance I did competition math, got an IMO silver medal. I studied at MIPT and the Yandex School of Data Analysis' - the sentence that ties the WorldQuant quant-researcher identity to the IMO silver medalist, resolving the identity question.
• The indexed/reported title history at WorldQuant: Regional Research Director (2023-present, Yerevan); Vice President (2021-2023, Moscow); Senior Quantitative Researcher (2019-2021, Moscow); Quantitative Researcher at WorldQuant LLC (2018-2019, Moscow); Quantitative Researcher (2017-2018, Moscow). This timeline is from the LinkedIn-derived enrichment index (index-only), not from a page read directly.
• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Identity: the exact LinkedIn profile (linkedin.com/in/alexander-matushkin) self-states 'I've been doing quantitative research at WorldQuant since 2017' and 'Before finance I did competition math, got an IMO silver medal', matching the official IMO 2012 record of Alexander Matushkin (RUS, silver) - so the WorldQuant quant-researcher and the IMO medalist are the same person. Employment: an actual, multi-year, promoted series of roles of Quantitative Researcher (2017-2018), Quantitative Researcher at WorldQuant LLC (2018-2019), Senior Quantitative Researcher (2019-2021), Vice President (2021-2023), Regional Research Director (2023-present); the granular titles/dates are index-only (LinkedIn-derived), corroborated by his self-linked Google Scholar profile naming the title. Employer classification: WorldQuant is a quantitative asset management firm (worldquant.com, founded 2007, 850+ employees), i.e. genuine quantitative finance - not a name-only match. Student programs, camps, or scholarships are not counted; no such items were used.
• Official IMO records confirm Alexander Matushkin (RUS) at IMO 2012 scored 26/42 and won a silver medal, independently confirming the olympiad identity rather than relying on the caller lead.
• His own Google Scholar profile (linked as his website) lists the affiliation 'Regional Research Director, WorldQuant' with a verified worldquant.com email, and research interests Random Graphs, Discrete Mathematics, Mathematical Logic, Probability Theory - self-reported, supporting the WorldQuant role but not independently dated.
• WorldQuant is a quantitative asset management firm (founded 2007, 850+ employees), which classifies the employer as quantitative finance rather than a name-only match.
• Education: Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), plus Big Data study at the Yandex School of Data Analysis.
• Olympiad identity to verify: Alexander Matushkin, representing the Russian Federation at IMO 2012 (caller-provided, unverified in these sources so far).
• A Russian government reception list describes him as a silver medalist at the International Mathematics Olympiad and an 11th-year student at Lyceum No. 41, Izhevsk - his secondary school.
• Peer-reviewed research: A. D. Matushkin and M. E. Zhukovskii, 'First order sentences about random graphs: small number of alternations', Discrete Applied Mathematics 236 (2018) - academic output predating/alongside his quant career.
• Peer-reviewed paper listed among his publications: A. D. Matushkin and M. E. Zhukovskii, 'First order sentences about random graphs: small number of alternations', Discrete Applied Mathematics 236 (2018).
• Before WorldQuant he was a Programmer at VicMan (2017, Moscow), described as computer vision / image processing using machine learning - a non-quantitative software role.