Amit Kumar Mallik

Amit Kumar Mallik is a computer science graduate of IIT Bombay (dual B.Tech+M.Tech, 2019-2024) who represented India at the 59th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO 2018, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), where he received an Honourable Mention with 10 points. He worked as a Quantitative Researcher at Graviton Research Capital LLP in Gurugram from 2024 to 2025. His undergraduate research spanned geometric algorithms (research internships at TU Braunschweig, 2021 and 2022, on packing/covering problems) and structural graph theory (dual-degree project and TA roles). He is also active in outdoor pursuits including mountaineering and paragliding.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. (1) Identity supported: the lead LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/amitiitb) lists headline 'QR @ Graviton, IIT Bombay CSE '24, BMC '23, IMO '18, IAO '17'; the IMO participant record (imo-official id=28281) shows an India contestant named Amit Kumar Mallik, IMO 2018 (Honourable Mention, 10 pts); the official PIB release names Amit Kumar Mallik as the IMO 2018 Indian Honourable Mention. (2) Actual role supported: the LinkedIn profile lists 'Quantitative Researcher, Graviton Research Capital LLP, Gurugram, Haryana, India, 2024-2025 (1 yr)'. (3) Employer classification: Graviton Research Capital LLP's own careers page self-describes the firm as a 'quantitative trading firm excelling in the global financial markets', so it genuinely operates in quantitative finance. Caveat: the role rests on LinkedIn/profile-index data (index-only), not a separate primary announcement; the identity and Olympiad facts are independently corroborated by primary sources. No other quant-finance employment leads were found; his other roles (research internships, teaching assistantships, ML cell) are not quant-finance.Sep 2026
• Held the role of Quantitative Researcher at Graviton Research Capital LLP, Gurugram, from 2024 to 2025 (~1 yr) per LinkedIn/profile-index data (index-only claim, not a separate primary-source announcement).2024
• Received an Honourable Mention at the 59th IMO (2018, Cluj-Napoca, Romania); ranked 368th overall with 10 points (P1=7, P2=1, P4=2). The task's stated Olympiad identity anchor.Jul 2018
• Career sequence reads: IIT Bombay CSE dual degree -> IMO-era Olympiad profile -> TU Braunschweig theory research -> a one-year Quantitative Researcher stint at Graviton (2024-2025) -> a 2025 paragliding course with no listed employer after Graviton. The gap after mid-2025 is unexplained by any source; current employment must not be inferred.2026
• Named in the Press Information Bureau (Government of India) release on India's IMO 2018 results: 'Amit Kumar Mallik received Honourable mention' - the only Indian contestant that year to receive an HM, the other five taking silver/bronze.Jul 13, 2018
• Co-authored arXiv preprints 'Extremal minimal bipartite matching covered graphs' (2024) and 'A Gale-Shapley View of Unique Stable Marriages' (2023) - structural graph theory / combinatorial algorithms consistent with his IIT graph-theory focus.Apr 2024
• Completed a dual B.Tech+M.Tech in Computer Science at IIT Bombay (2019-2024); the dual-degree project year (2023-2024) was at IIT Madras, where he was also a Teaching Assistant for Structural Graph Theory (CS6240).2024
• Two research internships at TU Braunschweig (2021 remote, 2022 on-site) under Prof. Sandor Fekete on geometric packing/covering problems (packing cubes in a cube; covering a square with rotatable squares), continued into the following semester.2022
• Held machine-learning roles at IIT Bombay's Unmesh Mashruwala Innovation Cell: Junior Machine Learning Engineer (2020-2021) and Machine Learning Subsystem Lead (2021-2022).2021
• Wrote a public IIT Bombay InSight blog on his TU Braunschweig internship, the cold-email research-internship process, and German visa delays that pushed his arrival a month late.2023
• Teaching Assistant for Discrete Structures (CS218M) at IIT Bombay in 2023.2023
• Lists 'IAO '17' (International Astronomy Olympiad 2017) in his LinkedIn headline alongside IMO '18, indicating Olympiad participation in astronomy as well as mathematics.2017