Amir Keivan Mohtashami

Amir Keivan Mohtashami is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind in Zurich. He represented Iran at the International Olympiad in Informatics 2015 (silver medal) and competed in the ICPC World Finals in 2016 and 2018. He completed a PhD in Computer Science at EPFL (2020-2025) after an undergraduate degree in Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology (2015-2020). His research concerns efficient foundation-model architectures and training (e.g. landmark attention, QuaRot, DenseFormer). He held research internships at Google (Zurich 2022-2023, London 2023). His LinkedIn, as surfaced through the profile index, also lists a summer 2024 'Quantitative Analyst Intern' role at The D. E. Shaw Group; that role is index-derived and not independently confirmed (see the 'Quant employment verification' note).

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• Identity CONFIRMED across independent sources: IOI stats page lists Amir Keivan Mohtashami (Iran, IOI 2015, silver medal) with Codeforces handle 'matrix' and TopCoder handle 'snbk'; the same person is 'matrix' on Codeforces, 'snbk' on TopCoder/CodeChef, and 'Amirkeivan Mohtashami' on OpenReview/EPFL with a 2020-2025 EPFL PhD and 2015-2020 Sharif undergrad matching the olympiad timeline.Jan 1, 2026
• Current role: Research Scientist at Google (Google DeepMind), Zurich, since 2025 - stated on his OpenReview profile (Research Scientist, Google, 2025-Present), LinkedIn headline, and X bio ('PhD - EPFL'); not inferred from an old index.Jan 1, 2025
• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only quantitative-finance employment evidence is an index-derived, self-reported 'Quantitative Analyst Intern' entry at The D. E. Shaw Group (Jun-Aug 2024) surfaced via LinkedIn profile enrichment (https://linkedin.com/in/akmohtashami) - index-derived, not independent primary-source confirmation, so the role is not independently verified against a primary employer source. Employer classification: The D. E. Shaw Group is a multi-strategy quantitative hedge fund and does operate in quantitative finance, so IF the role is accurate it would be a genuine quant-finance internship; the classification alone does not verify that this specific role was held. No competitions, insight days, camps, scholarships, or student programs are counted as employment. All other listed roles (Google/Google DeepMind research, EPFL doctoral study, Sotoon data science, Sharif research assistantship) are non-quant-finance.Jun 1, 2024
• LinkedIn enrichment (index-derived, self-reported on his LinkedIn profile) lists a 'Quantitative Analyst Intern' role at The D. E. Shaw Group; D.E. Shaw Group is a multi-strategy quantitative hedge fund. See the 'Quant employment verification' note for the verdict.Jun 1, 2024
• IOI profile (stats.ioinformatics.org/people/5617) confirms Amir Keivan Mohtashami represented Iran at IOI, with Codeforces handle 'matrix' and TopCoder handle 'snbk'; listed as ITC member for Iran 2023-2025 and Switzerland 2026.Jan 1, 2026
• Education timeline: undergrad at Sharif University of Technology 2015-2020, PhD in Computer Science at EPFL 2020-2025; OpenReview career history lists Sharif undergrad 2015-2020 and EPFL PhD 2020-2025.Jan 1, 2025
• Research output includes QuaRot (outlier-free 4-bit LLM inference), Landmark Attention (landmark-attention repo), DenseFormer, and 'Masked Training of Neural Networks with Partial Gradients' (AISTATS 2022) - work in efficient LLM architectures and training.Apr 1, 2024
• IOI 2015 (Iran): silver medal, rank 63/322, absolute score 363.02 (60.50%).Jul 1, 2015
• Competitive-programming record beyond IOI: ICPC World Finals 2016 (rank 27) and 2018 (rank 31), Bayan Programming Contest bronze (2015), CodeChef SnackDown 12th (2016); $400 lifetime prize money. Codeforces handle 'matrix' (Master).Jan 1, 2018