Andi Qu

Andi Qu is a South African-born quantitative researcher at Citadel Securities in New York, where he is a Quantitative Research Analyst from 2025. He graduated from MIT in 2025 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (course 6-2) and a minor in Materials Science and Engineering, and did undergraduate research at MIT RLE (superconducting/neuromorphic circuits, spintronics) and CSAIL. Before his current role he interned as a Quantitative Research Intern at Citadel Securities (2024) and as a Software Engineering Intern at Two Sigma (2023). He represented South Africa at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2019, 2020 and 2021, winning bronze in 2020 and 2021, and is named in South Africa's IMO results. He is reachable publicly at [contact omitted] and writes at andiqu.com.

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• QUANT EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION: CONFIRMED. Actual roles/internships exist at two quantitative-finance employers, and identity is supported across independent primary pages: Citadel Securities - Quantitative Research Intern (Chicago, 2024) and Quantitative Research Analyst (New York, 2025-present); Two Sigma - Software Engineering Intern (New York, 2023). Employer classification: Citadel Securities is a market maker / electronic trading firm (its own site describes it as providing liquidity across global capital markets); Two Sigma is a quantitative investment / systematic-trading hedge fund. Identity support: the LinkedIn profile (linkedin.com/in/andiqu), the personal site andiqu.com, and the IOI statistics profile all name Andi Qu and align on MIT, Johannesburg, and the same handles. Caveat: role dates/titles come from the LinkedIn profile via the local people index (index-only), not yet independently confirmed by an employer page.
• Published email [contact omitted] appears on both the personal site contact page and the IOI statistics profile (mailto link), giving two independent public sources for the same address.Sep 17, 2026
• Note titled 'Quant employment verification' is recorded above; status CONFIRMED based on an actual past/present role or internship plus a cross-linked supported identity, not on any student program.
• Graduated MIT in 2025 with a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (course 6-2) and a minor in Materials Science and Engineering (course 3); his own site frames the shift as discovering an interest in magnetic materials and superconducting electronics alongside software.May 29, 2025
• Won bronze medals for South Africa at IOI 2020 (score 306.10, rank 109/343) and IOI 2021 (score 233, rank 134/351), and competed at IOI 2019 (score 215.09, rank 201) - three consecutive IOI appearances for one country, a rare depth of sustained elite-level competitive programming.Jun 25, 2021
• Completed a UROP at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics' Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication (QNN) group, modelling and designing neuromorphic superconducting circuits; the QNN Summer 2025 newsletter lists him among members who left after completing his UROP and graduating.Jul 23, 2025
• Named (as Andi Qu, contestant id 29294) in South Africa's IMO results; his individual IMO contestant page is indexed by imo-official.org. IMO medal details were not independently readable from the fetched page and are left unconfirmed here.
• Software Engineering Intern at Scale AI (San Francisco, 2022), working on the GIS/mapping team building tools for custom maps from LIDAR data and satellite imagery - an earlier non-finance tech internship that predates the quant roles.Jun 1, 2022
• Matriculated from St John's College (Johannesburg) in 2020 with a 96.4% average and 8 distinctions, reported by News24; the IOI statistics profile also records high-school-level competitions from 2018.Feb 19, 2021
• Earlier MIT research roles: CSAIL using the Z3 theorem prover to design an experimental hardware compiler (2021-2022), the AI Accelerator training autonomous-flight agents with Unity/RLLib (2021-2022), and the RLE Spintronics group fabricating antiferromagnetic magnetic tunnel junctions (2022-2023).
• GitHub handle 'dolphingarlic' is the same person: the profile name is 'Andi Qu', company MIT, location Cambridge; the IOI profile and cphof both link Codeforces handle 'dolphingarlic' to Andi Qu, and his personal site links the same GitHub. 118 public repos.
• Co-built the USACO Guide (usaco.guide), a widely used free curated training resource for USACO competitive-programming competitors, listed on his projects page and contributed to via the cpinitiative org.