Alvin Cheuk Hin Tse

Hong Kong-based quantitative trader and mathematician (name: Alvin Tse; full name Alvin Cheuk Hin Tse). Mathematics throughout: BSc and PhD at the University of Edinburgh, MMath at the University of Cambridge; PhD thesis (2019) on quantitative propagation of chaos of McKean-Vlasov equations. Represented Hong Kong at the IMO in 2017 and 2018 (bronze both years) and won APMO 2018 silver. Roles reported on LinkedIn span a Paris academic postdoc (2019-2020), crypto market making, systematic asset management at AQUMON, crypto prime brokerage at Matrixport, crypto market-neutral trading, and a current quant trading research role; only the academic postdoc is independently corroborated, the trading roles are self-reported.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. One quantitative-finance-adjacent role is independently documented: a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech / CERMICS / INRIA (Paris, 2019-2020), a mathematics research post in the INRIA MATHRISK ('Mathematical Risk handling') team - academic quantitative research, not a trading desk. All trading/investment roles (D1 Quant Trading Research 'Investment Bank'; Quant Trader/Developer at Solana; Prime Brokerage Quant at Matrixport; Senior Quantitative Researcher - Associate Director at AQUMON; Quantitative Trader at Stealth FinTech Startup) are self-reported on the LinkedIn profile only and are NOT independently corroborated by any primary or third-party source found. Identity: the LinkedIn profile (Hong Kong, Maths PhD, quant headline) is the anchor; the Cambridge/Edinburgh mathematics and IMO-Hong Kong identity is separately confirmed, but no source publicly cross-links that identity to this specific quant LinkedIn account. Employer classification: AQUMON (aqumon.com) is a Hong Kong robo-advisor and quantitative asset manager; Matrixport is a crypto prime brokerage/financial-services firm; the 'Solana' entry describes a crypto trading operation (ce-DeFi market-neutral trading) and is not the Solana Foundation/Labs protocol org; 'Stealth FinTech Startup' claims ultra-low-latency crypto market making but names no entity; 'Investment Bank' is unnamed and cannot be confirmed to run a quant trading desk. Conclusion: at least one real quant-research role exists, but most of the claimed trading career is index-only and unverifiable from public sources.2026
• Listed as a team member (postdoctoral/external collaborator) on the INRIA MATHRISK project-team page, whose team is described as 'Mathematical Risk handling' and based at CERMICS / Ecole des Ponts ParisTech. Independently corroborates the Paris postdoc.2020
• Education is a Mathematics track throughout: BSc Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh (2011-2014), Master's (MMath) Mathematics at the University of Cambridge (2014-2015), and a PhD in Mathematics back at Edinburgh (2015-2019), per the LinkedIn-sourced profile.2019
• PhD thesis titled 'Quantitative propagation of chaos of McKean-Vlasov equations via the master equation', University of Edinburgh, 2019, archived in the university open repository. Primary-source confirmation of the mathematics doctorate and of the research area (mean-field particle systems).2019
• The claimed current role 'D1 Quant Trading Research' at an unnamed 'Investment Bank' (from 2026-07) is index/LinkedIn-only; because the employer is given only as the generic label 'Investment Bank', neither the firm nor its quantitative-trading operations can be confirmed, and current employment cannot be corroborated.Jul 2026
• LinkedIn headline reads 'Quant Trader | HFT | Maths PhD', positioning the profile around quant trading and high-frequency trading rather than academic research.2026
• Profile lists professional roles but no named internship; the only role with an independent public trace is the 2019-2020 Paris postdoc. The trading/asset-management roles rest on the profile alone, so career-timeline specifics (exact months, identity of the stealth startup) remain unverified.2026
• LinkedIn-derived role history describes ce-DeFi market-neutral trading and development at Solana (2024-2026, remote) with a claimed annualised Sharpe ratio above 10 and annualised return 10-30%; these are self-reported figures on the profile, not independently verified.Nov 2024
• Represented Hong Kong at the IMO in both 2017 and 2018, earning a bronze medal each year (17 points in 2017, rank 188/615; 18 points in 2018, rank 228/593).Jul 2018
• Google Scholar author profile shows 297 citations, h-index 6 and i10-index 6, with the citation history concentrated in 2018-2026, indicating continued academic citation of the McKean-Vlasov particle work well after the PhD.2026
• A ResearchGate profile matching this name lists 12 publications, 265 citations and a research interest in mean-field particle diffusion and propagation of chaos, consistent with the PhD in probability/stochastic analysis; identity match to the quant LinkedIn rests on the shared name plus mathematics-PhD context rather than a cross-link.Apr 2021
• ResearchGate profile under the name 'Alvin Tse' lists 12 publications ~1,018 reads and 265 citations, with the declared research interest in mean-field particle diffusion and propagation of chaos - consistent with, but not cross-linked to, the quant LinkedIn.Apr 2021