Budimir Baev

Mathematician (IMO 2013 silver medalist, Russian Federation) and quantitative finance professional. Education: Saint Petersburg State University, Specialist in Mathematics and Mechanics (2013-2018), preceded by Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239. Career: WorldQuant internship in his fourth year, then a WorldQuant employee after graduating in 2018 (Quantitative Researcher, 2018-2019 per LinkedIn); Senior Data Analyst at Yandex (2019-2022); Quantitative Trader since 2022 at an employer disclosed only as 'HFT NDA'. Three-time absolute winner of the International Student Mathematics Olympiad at Ariel University (2015-2017).

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• SPbU career-day article (23 Oct 2018) states that as a fourth-year 'Fundamental Mathematics' student Budimir Baev did an internship at the firm WorldQuant, and that after graduating in 2018 he became a WorldQuant employee; he is quoted on the analytical demands of the work. This is independent primary-source (university news) confirmation of the WorldQuant internship and subsequent employment.Oct 23, 2018
• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Independent primary source (SPbU, 23 Oct 2018) documents a WorldQuant internship during his fourth year and subsequent WorldQuant employment after 2018 graduation; WorldQuant is a quantitative asset management firm. LinkedIn corroborates the WorldQuant Quantitative Researcher role (2018-2019). His current 'HFT NDA' Quantitative Trader role (2022-present) is LinkedIn-only and its employer unverifiable, but the earlier quant role is independently confirmed.Oct 23, 2018
• LinkedIn lists Quantitative Researcher at WorldQuant, St Petersburg, 2018-2019 (worldquant.com). WorldQuant is a global quantitative asset management firm (company_search). The internship preceded this role; SPbU's Oct-2018 article frames the employment as starting after 2018 graduation.Sep 2018
• LinkedIn lists Quantitative Trader at an employer recorded only as 'HFT NDA' since April 2022 (current). 'NDA' signals the firm name is undisclosed; the title is quant but the employer cannot be independently identified or classified as quant from the listing alone.Apr 2022
• No open-web (non-index) primary source was found naming Baev's post-2022 employer; the 2022-present Quantitative Trader role rests solely on the LinkedIn listing, so current employment is not treated as independently confirmed.
• LinkedIn (index) lists Senior Data Analyst at Yandex, St Petersburg, 2019-2022 (yandex.com). Yandex is a technology/internet company, not a quantitative-finance employer, so this role does not add to quant employment.2019
• Belarusian-Russian University news records Budimir Baev (SPbU) as absolute winner of the IX International Student Mathematics Olympiad 'for the third time in a row', indicating three consecutive absolute wins (2015-2017).Sep 2017
• Absolute winner of the superfinal of the International Student Mathematics Olympiad held 28-29 Sep 2016 at Ariel University, Israel, as a third-year SPbU student.Oct 4, 2016
• International Mathematical Olympiad 2013: represented the Russian Federation, silver medal, rank 117, 25 points (7/3/2/7/5/1).Jul 2013
• LinkedIn lists 'Teacher of additional education' at Physics-Mathematical Lyceum 239, St Petersburg, 2013-2020, spanning his undergraduate years.2013
• Named in the SPbU team at the International Mathematics Competition (IMC) for university students 2017 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria (team 2nd place); the name also appears in IMC 2015 and IMC 2016 team results pages.Aug 8, 2017
• While still a Lyceum 239 student, won the Romanian Masters of Mathematics tournament (reported alongside Dmitri Krachun), per St Petersburg city government education news.Mar 4, 2013