Bobby Shen

U.S. IMO team member (2012, 2013, gold medals), MIT mathematics, Putnam Fellow (2014), and MIT first-place Putnam team member (2014, 2015). Currently a Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital; previously a Data Scientist at EDO Inc.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only employment evidence is a LinkedIn-derived enrichment record (bobby-c-shen) showing Quantitative Trader and Quantitative Researcher at Tower Research Capital, Chicago (researcher start 2022-07, no end date; no dates for the trader role). This is an index/aggregator record, not independent primary-source confirmation, and no corroborating source naming Bobby Shen at Tower Research was found. Employer classification: Tower Research Capital operates in quantitative finance - its own site describes it as home to 'quantitative trading teams' trading 'any market, any asset class' (a proprietary/electronic trading firm), so a role there would qualify as quantitative finance; the block is identity/employment corroboration, not the employer. Identity linkage is plausible (MIT mathematics aligns with the IMO/Putnam contestant) but not directly corroborated on the profile. Reported per the unverified caller lead; not confirmed.
• IMO 2012: gold medal and 3rd-highest individual score (of 548) for Team USA, which placed 3rd.
• IMO 2013: gold medal for Team USA (35/42).
• William Lowell Putnam Fellow, 2014 (top-6 individual), and member of MIT's first-place Putnam team in 2015.
• arXiv preprint (math.CO) 'Parametrizing an integer linear program by an integer' (2015) is listed under this name.
• MATHCOUNTS Texas State Champion, 2008 (second title).
• Listed as a Data Scientist at EDO Inc. in the same LinkedIn-derived enrichment record; no dates, and EDO is a marketing-analytics measurement company, not a quantitative-finance employer.