Calvin Shao-Huai Hsu

Calvin Shao-Huai Hsu is a mathematician and computer scientist from Taiwan. He represented Taiwan at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2015 (bronze) and 2016 (gold), competing as a student at Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 2020 with a major in Course VI-3 (Computer Science and Engineering) and a minor in Economics, and received a B.S. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science (per the author note of a 2020 Journal of Information Processing paper). He competed on MIT's Putnam team and did research in Erik Demaine's computational geometry / algorithmic lower bounds group, co-authoring papers including 'Edge Matching with Inequalities, Triangles, Unknown Shape, and Two Players' (2020) and 'Graph Threading' (ITCS 2024).

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• Quant employment verification: NOT CONFIRMED. No primary source was found tying the IMO-identified Calvin Shao-Huai Hsu (Taiwan, MIT Class of 2020) to any quantitative-finance employment, internship, or trading role. The caller-supplied lead (LinkedIn calvin-hsu-b354012a, 'Trader at Mercuria' with a 2010-2011 Columbia Master in Mathematics of Finance, and a 'Quantitative Analyst Intern' role at Navigator Capital Partners dated 2010-2011) is timeline-inconsistent with an IMO 2015/2016 contestant (who would have been in high school in 2010-2011) and is treated as a DIFFERENT person. No such role appears against the verified subject; the quant-employment claim rests only on an unverified index/lead and is explicitly uncertain. Student competitions (IMO) and any academic research do not constitute employment.2026
• Represented Taiwan at IMO 2016 in Hong Kong, winning a gold medal with a score of 35/42; Taiwan's gold medalists that year were announced by the Ministry of Education.Jul 2016
• Graduated MIT in 2020 with a major in Course VI-3 (Computer Science and Engineering) and a minor in Economics, per the official MIT 2020 Commencement program.May 2020
• Competed at IMO 2015 in Chiang Mai for Taiwan, earning a bronze medal with a score of 14/42 and individual rank 257.Jul 2015
• Co-authored 'Graph Threading' (ITCS 2024) with the MIT Demaine group, extending his complexity/geometry research into a peer-reviewed conference paper.2024
• Co-authored 'Edge Matching with Inequalities, Triangles, Unknown Shape, and Two Players' (arXiv 2002.03887; Journal of Information Processing vol. 28, 2020), work in MIT's computational geometry / algorithmic lower bounds group under Erik Demaine.Feb 2020
• Author note on the 2020 Journal of Information Processing paper states he received a B.S. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from MIT, indicating a joint math/CS degree.2020
• Competed at IMO as a 17-year-old second-year (高二) student at Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School (建國中學); Chinese-language olympiad records list him by name, school and age.2015
• Completed SPUR 2018, MIT's Summer Program in Undergraduate Research, on 'Quantitative decay for nonlinear wave equations' under mentor Ruoxuan Yang.2018
• Named among MIT's Putnam Competition winners in the 2017 announcement, confirming active participation in MIT's competitive mathematics program.2017