Amine Natik

Applied-mathematics researcher: PhD student at the Departement de mathematiques et de statistique (DMS), Universite de Montreal, a core member of Mila and an IVADO PhD fellow, co-supervised by Guillaume Lajoie and Guy Wolf. He holds an M.Sc. in probability theory from the University of Ottawa (supervisor Aaron Smith) and a B.Sc. in mathematics from the Faculte des Sciences de Rabat, and represented Morocco at the 2014 International Mathematical Olympiad. His published work covers spectral seriation and the reliability of representation-similarity metrics such as CKA. A LinkedIn-derived index additionally lists a current role as Quantitative Analyst - Commodities at Constellation in London (from 2023-04); that industry role is index-only and is not confirmed by any primary source, and his own academic pages name no industry employer.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. His identity is well supported (IMO 2014 Morocco, UdeM/Mila applied-math PhD, University of Ottawa M.Sc., Mila directory and personal DMS page all agree), but the only evidence for the quantitative role is index-only data derived from his LinkedIn profile (Amine Natik, Quantitative Analyst - Commodities, Constellation, London, since 2023-04, employer domain constellationenergy.com), not an independently verified primary source. His self-authored academic pages conflict: the UdeM DMS personal page still lists him as a PhD student (2019 - Present) and gives no industry employer, and the Mila directory lists him as an alumnus rather than as a current member. Constellation Energy (the domain the enrichment attached) is a US energy/power company whose London arm ran a commodities (power/gas) trading business, so its quant-analytics function is an energy-trading desk rather than a hedge fund or market-maker; but on the current evidence the role cannot be confirmed as an actual held position rather than a stale or aggregated index claim. No student program, insight day, camp, scholarship or incoming offer is present to explain the entry, so this is genuine uncertainty, not a misread of a non-role.2026
• Primary self-authored academic page (UdeM DMS) presents him as a serving PhD student (2019 - Present), a core Mila member and an IVADO PhD fellow co-supervised by Guillaume Lajoie and Guy Wolf - the one source that describes his role in his own words, and it names no industry employer.2026
• The UdeM DMS page and the Mila directory both describe an active research trajectory but neither names an industry employer, so on the primary/self-authored sources the profile is a pure academic one - the only reason an industry role appears at all is the LinkedIn-derived index.2026
• Education is fully documented on his own page: PhD in Applied Mathematics, UdeM/Mila (2019 - present), thesis on spatial/spectral properties of neural-network connectivity; M.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Ottawa (2017-2019) under Aaron Smith, thesis on the spectral seriation algorithm; B.Sc. in Mathematics, Faculte des Sciences de Rabat (2015-2017), thesis on mathematical models for cancer growth.2026
• His GitHub profile bio reads 'PhD Student in Applied Math, MILA', which cross-confirms the github.com/amine-natik account as his and corroborates that the academic self-description, not the industry role, is what he presents publicly.2026
• Mila directory lists him as an 'Alumni' and shows a co-authored publication 'Reliability of CKA as a Similarity Measure in Deep Learning' (with Davari, Horoi, Lajoie, Wolf, Belilovsky), consistent with a research-trained profile that later left the institute.2025
• Index-only employment entry: ML Research Engineer at Huawei Technologies Canada (Montreal, 2022-2023), derived from his LinkedIn profile rather than an independent source; his own academic pages do not mention it.2023
• Publication record: 'Consistency of Spectral Seriation' (arXiv:2112.04408, math.ST, Dec 2021) with his M.Sc. supervisor Aaron Smith - the journal version of his M.Sc. thesis - and 'Reliability of CKA as a Similarity Measure in Deep Learning' (arXiv:2210.16156, Oct 2022) with Davari, Horoi, Lajoie, Wolf and Belilovsky.Dec 2021
• Represented Morocco at the 2014 International Mathematical Olympiad, scoring 7 points (rank 446, 20.5%) with an Honorable Mention, all from problem 1 - a modest IMO result rather than a medal, which matters when grading the Olympiad signal.Jul 2014
• Taught as a lecturer at UdeM while a PhD student (MAT1919 neuroscience math, MAT1680, MAT1681 across 2021-2022) - teaching activity that ends in Winter 2022, just before the 2023 industry entry, and is the clearest dated record of his academic phase.2022