Byung-Cheol Cho

Princeton University B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering (Class of 2018); represented New Zealand twice at the International Mathematical Olympiad (2012 Honourable Mention, 2013 Bronze). Since graduating he has been an Algorithm Developer at Hudson River Trading (HRT), a proprietary algorithmic/high-frequency trading firm in New York, working in US Equities Market Making (2018-2021 per LinkedIn) and then in HAIL (HRT AI Labs) on deep-learning research. Before HRT his roles were academic — neuroscience research, teaching and tutoring at Princeton, and a 2015 biology research internship in Auckland.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Hudson River Trading (HRT) is a proprietary algorithmic/high-frequency trading firm; the subject's roles there were Algorithm Developer in US Equities Market Making (2018-2021 per LinkedIn index) and subsequently in HRT AI Labs / HAIL. This is actual quantitative-trading employment, supported by the LinkedIn profile and the subject's own personal site (bccho.github.io).
• Identity verified across three independent signals: the NZ Maths Olympiad official 2012 and 2013 IMO results pages name 'Byung-Cheol Cho' on the New Zealand team (bronze 2013, honourable mention 2012); the personal site bccho.github.io and the LinkedIn profile both give Princeton B.S.E. Electrical Engineering and the HRT Algorithm Developer role. The Olympiad, education and employer facts cohere into one person.
• LinkedIn headline lists 'Algorithm Developer at HRT' with Hudson River Trading as current employer, New York; profile also states Princeton B.S.E. Electrical Engineering (Class of 2018). Employer is a proprietary high-frequency/algorithmic trading firm. Index-only claim (LinkedIn enrichment), not independently confirmed by a primary source.
• Personal GitHub Pages site (bccho.github.io) mirrors the LinkedIn résumé: Hudson River Trading — Algorithm Developer — 2018 to present, first in US Equities Market Making then HAIL (HRT AI Labs) deep learning research. Corroborates the HRT role and the market-making/algorithmic-trading classification.
• Enrichment lists a prior HRT role titled Algorithm Developer, US Equities Market Making, dated 2018-2021, consistent with the caller lead. Actual market-making role type confirms quantitative trading, not a student/insight program. Index-only dating.
• At IMO 2013 in Colombia he won a Bronze medal with 16/42, the second-highest NZ score on that team (George Han 22 bronze was first); the result is stated on the New Zealand Maths Olympiad official results page.
• Personal site bccho.github.io is a minimal LinkedIn-mirror landing page that links the LinkedIn profile and a GitHub profile; it independently corroborates the HRT 2018-present role with the US Equities Market Making then HAIL (deep learning) progression, and Princeton Class of 2018.
• At IMO 2012 in Argentina he received an Honourable Mention with 10/42, per the New Zealand Maths Olympiad official 2012 results page; the team's top scorer was Jia Natalia Chen (15, bronze).
• Princeton undergraduate roles (2015-2018): teaching assistant for NEU 314, researcher in the Wang Lab (Princeton Neuroscience Institute), McGraw Center tutor for multivariable calculus/linear algebra, and EGR 192 course assistant. Full pre-HRT timeline is academic, not finance.
• Founder/Deputy Chairperson/Trustee of the New Zealand Mathematical Olympiad Student Association (2014-2017), a student trust promoting mathematics. Explains durable Olympiad involvement beyond competing.
• Full pre-HRT arc is academic/teaching, not finance: Princeton B.S.E. Electrical Engineering (Class of 2018) plus NEU 314 TA, Wang Lab neuroscience-research assistantship (machine vision for mouse behaviour), McGraw Center tutoring, and EGR 192 course assisting, 2015-2018. The only prior industry role was a 2015 University of Auckland Centre for Brain Research summer internship (biology).
• 2015 summer research intern at the University of Auckland Centre for Brain Research (blood-brain-barrier co-culture cell model) — a biology research internship, not finance. Part of the pre-HRT timeline.