Aruzhan Amanbayeva

Aruzhan Amanbayeva is a doctoral student in computer science at EPFL (EDIC), where she is a Doctoral Assistant in the Chair for Game Theory and Operations. She completed a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics at MIT in 2022 and has worked as a Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (2022-2024), an undergraduate researcher at MIT CSAIL, and as a Semi-Systematic Trading Intern at Citadel Securities (summer 2021). Before MIT she attended the National School of Physics & Math (FIZMAT) in Kazakhstan and represented Kazakhstan at the International Mathematical Olympiad (2016-2018) and the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad.

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• Citadel Securities, 'Semi-Systematic Trading Intern', New York, 2021 (LinkedIn lists dates as '2021'); a real summer internship, not a student/insight program. Citadel Securities is a market maker / market-making and electronic-trading firm - an actual quantitative finance employer.2021
• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. LinkedIn lists a 'Semi-Systematic Trading Intern' role at Citadel Securities, New York, 2021 - an actual internship at a market-making/electronic-trading firm, not a student program, insight day, or offer. Employer classification: Citadel Securities is a quantitative market-making and trading firm, qualifying as quantitative finance. Identity supported by the EPFL/MIT/FIZMAT record matching the olympiad identity. Caveat: month-level dates (Jun-Aug 2021) come from the caller lead only. No quant role is evidenced after 2021 - the 2022-2024 AWS software engineering role and current EPFL PhD are not trading roles.2021
• Identity resolved: the EPFL PhD student, MIT Math '22 graduate, and the IMO/EGMO Kazakhstan contestant are the same person. LinkedIn headline 'MIT '22 (Math & CS)' plus EPFL studies and the FIZMAT high-school line link the olympiad profile to the academic one. The provided lead ('identity: taiga-668983011', LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/aaruzhan, Citadel summer 2021) is corroborated on identity and on the Citadel internship.2026
• Career arc is academic/research-dominant: MIT Math BA (2018-2022) -> AWS Software Engineer (2022-2024, Cambridge MA) -> EPFL CS PhD/Doctoral Assistant (2024-present). The Citadel internship is the single quant-finance data point; subsequent roles are software/research, not trading.2026
• EPFL Doctoral Assistant in the Chair for Game Theory and Operations (CDM > MTEI > GO), public EPFL email [contact omitted] and office phone +41 21 693 51 41; PhD in the EDIC doctoral program.2026
• Authorship: 'The Convex Hull of Parking Functions of Length n' (arXiv:2104.08454, Apr 2021; rev Oct 2021), with Danielle Wang - product of MIT UROP+ summer research. A follow-up line of work 'Generalized Parking Function Polytopes' appeared in Annals of Combinatorics (2023).Apr 17, 2021
• Olympiad record for Kazakhstan: IMO 2017 Bronze (score 18, rank 139), IMO 2018 team member, EGMO 2017 and 2018 contestant, KIMC 2014 Silver (Kazakhstan A).2018
• LinkedIn headline (MIT '22, Math & CS) and EPFL PhD confirm this is the same person as the IMO Kazakhstan contestant referenced in the provided lead.
• Mentoring page of Andres Cristi lists 'Aruzhan Amanbayeva (2024 - present), PhD in Computer Science, EPFL', indicating the doctoral advisor/mentor relationship.2024
• Caller lead gave the internship as Jun-Aug 2021; LinkedIn shows the year only, so the month range is not independently confirmed here.