Anzo Teh

PhD student in MIT's EECS department (since Sept 2021), advised by Prof. Yury Polyanskiy, researching statistical inference, theoretical machine learning and information theory (empirical Bayes). University of Waterloo graduate in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics (Honors, Co-op, 2021). Four-time Malaysian IMO team member (gold 2014). Internships span quantitative investment (Voloridge Investment Management, Waterfront International, IMC Trading) and technology (Enlighted, Uber ATG).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Identity is supported by the MIT personal site and LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/anzoteh), which cross-reference each other. At least one actual quant-finance internship is supported: LinkedIn index data lists Voloridge Investment Management, LLC with company_domain voloridge.com, and voloridge.com describes itself as 'a quantitative and systematic investment management' firm (Voloridge was launched in 2009 by David S. Vogel). Employer classification: CONFIRMED quant investment manager. Other quant roles (IMC Trading Quantitative Research Intern 2025; Waterfront International Quantitative Research Intern 2021 and Software Engineering Intern 2019) come only from the caller-supplied index lead and were not independently confirmed in a primary source this run; Waterfront International is confirmed to be 'a Toronto-based quantitative finance research firm that develops computer-based statistical trading strategies', and IMC is a market maker. Treat the IMC and Waterfront role titles/dates as index-only claims.2024
• Interned at Voloridge Investment Management, LLC (company_domain voloridge.com) as a Research Analyst intern, per the LinkedIn/index record; Voloridge is a quantitative and systematic investment management firm. Role title and dates (per the caller lead: Jun-Aug 2024) are index-only, not independently confirmed.2024
• Listed internships include IMC Trading as a Quantitative Research Intern (caller lead: Jun-Aug 2025); IMC is a global market maker. Index-only claim, not independently confirmed in a primary source this run.2025
• Past roles include Waterfront International Ltd, a Toronto-based quantitative finance research firm that develops computer-based statistical trading strategies (caller lead: Quantitative Research Intern May-Aug 2021 and Software Engineering Intern May-Jul 2019). Index-only claim; the firm's quant-finance nature is confirmed, the role titles/dates are not.2021
• Represented Malaysia at the International Mathematical Olympiad four times: gold medal (2014), silver (2012, 2013), and honourable mention (2011).2014
• Personal site (anzoteh96.github.io) is the primary self-published source: it confirms the MIT EECS PhD, Waterloo degree, publications/talks, olympiad record, coding experience and music, and links his IMO profile (imo-official.org id 20635).
• Current research focus at MIT is empirical Bayes, statistical inference, theoretical machine learning and information theory; he presented 'Feature Alignment via Energy Distance' at the MIT SDS Conference 2024.2024
• Machine Learning Engineering Intern at Enlighted, Inc. from Aug 31, 2020 to Dec 23, 2020, listed on his public Facebook/social profile; Enlighted is a building-IoT/smart-sensor technology company, not a quant-finance firm.Aug 31, 2020
• Published cryptography research (improved digital signatures based on elliptic curve endomorphism rings, ISPEC 2019) and later information-theory/ML papers with Yury Polyanskiy (Empirical Bayes via ERM and Rademacher complexities, COLT 2023; Comparing Poisson and Gaussian Channels, ISIT 2023).2023
• Graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2021 in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics (Honors, Co-operative Program); the co-op program is consistent with his multiple internship terms across technology and finance firms.2021
• Undergraduate internship at Enlighted (Waterloo, Ontario) and a past role domain cockroachlabs.com appear in the LinkedIn index role list; Cockroach Labs is the maker of the CockroachDB distributed SQL database (a software company, not quant finance). Index-only.2020
• Research experience listed on his site: internship at Uber ATG (2019), cryptography research (2018), and graph theory research (2017).2019