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Calvin Deng

Trader at Jane Street; PhD Mathematics, Princeton University
Jane Street · Cary, North Carolina, United States · operator

Calvin Deng is a Trader at Jane Street, a quantitative proprietary trading firm and market maker, per LinkedIn index enrichment. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Princeton University (2017-2022) focused on number theory/elliptic curves, after studying Mathematics at Harvard University (2013-2017) and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. He was a decorated olympiad competitor: he represented the USA at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2010 and 2012 and Canada in 2013, earning Silver and Gold medals, and represented Canada at the 2013 International Olympiad in Informatics. His earlier industry experience includes an Assistant Trader role at Jane Street and a software-engineering internship at Dropbox.

Mathematician and Jane Street trader. PhD in Mathematics (Princeton, 2017-2022, number theory/elliptic curves); Mathematics at Harvard (2013-2017); North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. IMO competitor for the USA (2010, 2012) and Canada (2013); IOI 2013 competitor for Canada; competitive programmer (Codeforces 'dnkywin').

Details
LocationCary, North Carolina, United States
Company sitejanestreet.com
UniversityPrinceton University
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Notes
  • Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Calvin Deng is listed as a Trader at Jane Street (current) with prior Assistant Trader roles at Jane Street (2016) and Jane Street Capital (2014); Jane Street is a quantitative proprietary trading firm and market maker (janestreet.com), i.e. a quantitative-finance employer. 'Assistant Trader' is Jane Street's summer/early-career trading role (an actual internship/employment), not a competition, camp, insight day, or offer. Identity is supported by the same profile also carrying the olympiad/codeforces 'dnkywin' identity. CAVEAT: the current-role and role-date claims come only from LinkedIn index enrichment (index-only, not independent primary-source confirmation); no separate primary source (firm page, filing, press) confirming current employment was located. Olympiad results and the Dropbox software-engineering internship (2014, dropbox.com - software, not quant finance) are excluded from quant employment.
  • Represented the USA at IMO 2010 and 2012 and Canada at IMO 2013, earning a Silver and a Gold medal over his IMO career; also won First Prize at the Canadian Mathematical Olympiad (second time) and Gold at the Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad (second time), and was a USA Math Olympiad winner for the third time (placing third) in 2013.2013
  • Index-only: current title 'Trader' at Jane Street and the role dates (Trader 2022-present; Assistant Trader 2016; Jane Street Capital Assistant Trader 2014; Dropbox Software Engineering Intern 2014) all come from the LinkedIn enrichment/index, NOT from a primary firm or filing source.
  • PhD student in Mathematics at Princeton University (2017-2022 per enrichment) working on number theory/elliptic curves; an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.2022
  • Born 1996 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; raised in Cary, North Carolina; finished Grade 12 at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics and entered Harvard University in fall 2013.2013
  • Represented Canada at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2013; his Codeforces handle 'dnkywin' is linked from the official IOI statistics profile.2013
  • Qualified for the USA Mathematical Olympiad as a freshman at William G. Enloe High School (Cary, NC); listed among the 12 winners of the 2010 USAMO.May 20, 2010
  • At Harvard he competed on the ACM-ICPC team, was a Problem Czar for HMMT November 2013 and February 2015 (with Bobby Shen and Victor Wang), and co-organized the Harvard-MIT Undergraduate Math Symposium - i.e. active math-competition community involvement beyond competing.
  • Personal site dnkywin.com; handle 'dnkywin' used across Codeforces, X (@dnkywin), Facebook, and formerly the Dominion platform - a single portable online handle tying the competition and personal identity together.
  • The employer lead 'Jane Street Capital' is the same firm as 'Jane Street' (janestreet.com); both entries should be read as one employer, a quantitative market-making proprietary trading firm.
  • President of the USA IMO team in 2013 (CMS team bio).2013
  • Recognized on the Competitive Programming Hall of Fame under the Topcoder handle 'dnkywin'.

Competition record

United States of America, Canada · IMO

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