Bhargav Narayanan

Bhargav Narayanan is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University working in combinatorics and discrete probability, with applications to computing and physics. He was born on October 11, 1989 and holds Indian citizenship with US permanent residency. He earned a B.Tech in Computer Science at IIT Madras (2007-2011, ranked first in his year), an MASt (Part III) at Cambridge (ranked first in his year), and a PhD in Mathematics at Cambridge (2012-2015) supervised by Bela Bollobas. He was a Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge (2015-2017) before joining Rutgers as Assistant Professor (2017-2023) and Associate Professor (2023-present). His self-authored CV also lists consulting roles at Jump Trading (2015-2025) and Microsoft Research (2018-2022), and a 2021 Simons Visiting Professorship at EPFL. He is a recipient of a 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship and an NSF CAREER grant, and represented India at the 2007 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning an Honourable Mention.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. His self-authored CV (https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~narayanan/cv.pdf) lists 'Consultant, Jump Trading, 2015-2025' as an actual held position, and his LinkedIn profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhargavnarayanan) names 'Jump Trading Group'. Employer classification: Jump Trading is a proprietary high-frequency/algorithmic trading firm, so this is a genuine quantitative-finance role (consulting), not a competition, insight day, camp, or incoming offer. Identity is supported by the CV, the official IMO 2007 participant page (https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=15572, Honourable Mention for India), and the Rutgers/LinkedIn cross-links. Limitation: the caller's exact title 'Consulting Quantitative Researcher' and its dates 2016-06 to 2025-07 are index-derived (LinkedIn listing) and are not independently sourced; the primary CV gives only year granularity, 2015-2025. The CV is a self-authored primary document; the index listing is not treated as independent confirmation.2025
• Self-authored CV lists 'Consultant, Jump Trading, 2015-2025' as a position held alongside his academic career; Jump Trading is a proprietary high-frequency/algorithmic trading firm, making this a quant-finance consulting engagement.2025
• Career timeline: PhD Cambridge 2012-2015 (Bollobas) -> Research Fellow, St John's College Cambridge 2015-2017 (concurrent with the start of the Jump Trading consulting) -> Assistant Professor Rutgers 2017-2023 -> Associate Professor Rutgers 2023-present; Microsoft Research consulting 2018-2022; EPFL Simons Visiting Professor 2021.
• Co-authored 'Thresholds versus fractional expectation-thresholds' (Annals of Mathematics, 194, 2021, with Frankston, Kahn, Park), proving Talagrand's threshold conjecture - a top-journal result in probabilistic combinatorics.2021
• The caller lead 'Associate Professor of Mathematics at Jump Trading' is a mis-merge and is discarded: Associate Professor of Mathematics is his Rutgers title, and LinkedIn's 'Associate Professor of Mathematics' role is at Rutgers, not Jump Trading.
• Awarded a 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship (2023-2025) and an NSF CAREER grant DMS-2237138 (2023-2028); also NSF DMS-1800521, CCF-1814409, and DMS-2625727 - a continuously funded independent research program.2023
• Honourable Mention, International Mathematical Olympiad 2007, representing India - matches the caller's Olympiad identity anchor.2007
• Represented India at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2007 and received an Honourable Mention - the caller's identity anchor; confirmed on the official IMO participant page.2007
• CV lists 'Consultant, Microsoft Research, 2018-2022' and an earlier 'Research Intern at Microsoft Research,' per LinkedIn; the intern stint is the earliest industry role on record.2025
• Sloan Research Fellowship 2023-2025 and NSF CAREER grant DMS-2237138 (2023-2028) indicate a funded, mid-career academic research program in combinatorics/discrete probability.2023
• PhD in Mathematics, Cambridge (2012-2015), supervised by Bela Bollobas, a leading combinatorics/probabilistic-combinatorics figure.
• Part III (MASt) ranked 1st in the year with 97.2/100, and BTech CS at IIT Madras ranked 1st with GPA 9.86/10 - a first-in-class record across both degrees.