Apurv Nakade

Apurva Nakade (listed as 'Apurv Nakade' at IMO 2006) is a mathematician and teaching professor. He represented India at the 47th International Mathematical Olympiad (2006) and won a bronze medal. He holds a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kanpur, an MSc in Mathematics from the Chennai Mathematical Institute, and a PhD in Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University. He worked as a postdoc at Northwestern University and the University of Western Ontario before returning to JHU as an Assistant Teaching Professor in Applied Mathematics & Statistics, where he works on mathematics education, course redesign, interactive teaching visualizations and Lean theorem-prover formalization. His documented employment is academic; no quantitative-finance role is evidenced. The Nomura Securities/Mumbai index lead supplied in the brief is a separate person and is not confirmed as this individual.

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• Quant employment verification: NOT CONFIRMED. No actual past or present role, internship or contract at a quantitative investment, trading, market-making, hedge-fund or systematic/algorithmic trading firm could be evidenced for the supported identity. Documented employment is academic only - postdoc at Northwestern University and the University of Western Ontario, and Assistant Teaching Professor at Johns Hopkins University - none of which operates in quantitative finance. The caller-supplied 'Global Market Analyst at Nomura Securities, Mumbai' lead belongs to a distinct index record ('apurv nakade', person id 188701129) with no education or identity overlap and no primary source, so it is classified as an unverified namesake rather than a role of the IMO medalist. Employer classification checked: Nomura Securities is a bank with a global markets/quantitative-research arm, but the record cannot be attached to this identity; student programs, competitions and camps do not qualify.Sep 17, 2026
• The caller's Nomura lead is a DIFFERENT person: a separate professional-index record ('apurv nakade', index person id 188701129, Global Market Analyst at Nomura Securities, Mumbai) with no education, no Olympiad link and no verifiable primary profile, so it cannot be tied to the IMO medalist.Sep 17, 2026
• Identity resolution: the IMO 2006 medalist is the mathematician 'Apurva Nakade' (spelling variant of the caller's 'Apurv Nakade'); his JHU faculty page gives BTech CSE from IIT Kanpur, MSc Mathematics from the Chennai Mathematical Institute and PhD Mathematics from JHU, and the IMO medalist's paper affiliation (CMI) and CMI/IITK records track that exact path.Jul 1, 2026
• Assistant Teaching Professor in Applied Mathematics & Statistics at Johns Hopkins University, focused on mathematics education, course redesign and the Lean theorem prover; the university page was updated 2026-07-01, so this is current, not a stale index.Jul 1, 2026
• Career path is entirely academic: postdoc at Northwestern University and the University of Western Ontario before joining JHU; no quantitative-finance employer appears on his faculty page, personal site, CV or publication record.Jul 1, 2026
• The IMO medalist holds a PhD in mathematics and works as a college teaching professor; treating him as a quantitative-finance professional would misidentify both the person and the field.Jan 1, 2026
• Won a bronze medal for India at the 47th IMO 2006 in Ljubljana, Slovenia (18 points, rank 132) as a school student; the medal is a competition result, not employment.Jul 1, 2006
• Research spans algebraic topology, type theory and mathematical formalization; he contributes to the Lean math library, mentored at Canada/USA Mathcamp, and is an MAA Project NExT fellow.Jul 1, 2026
• Co-authored 'Effect of increasing the energy gap between the two lowest energy states on the mixing time of the Metropolis algorithm' (Information Processing Letters, 2012) with Somenath Biswas of IIT Kanpur CSE, while affiliated with the Chennai Mathematical Institute.Aug 1, 2012
• Personal site apurvanakade.github.io is his link hub: email [contact omitted], GitHub github.com/apurvanakade, a CV page, and projects on interactive math visualizations, an AMS course explorer, and Lean formalization.Jan 1, 2026