Deepesh Singhal
Deepesh Singhal is a mathematician and quantitative researcher. He completed a PhD in Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine (2026) under Nathan Kaplan, working in arithmetic statistics on numerical semigroups, sandpile groups, and related enumerative questions, with roughly fourteen peer-reviewed papers. He holds an MS in Mathematics from UC Irvine (2022) and a BSc in Mathematics with First Class Honours from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2020, IRE Pure Math Advanced Track), with an exchange semester at the National University of Singapore (Spring 2019). He represented India at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2016 (bronze) and the Asia Pacific Math Olympiad 2015 (honourable mention). In summer 2026 he interned as a Quantitative Research Intern at Susquehanna International Group, a global quantitative trading firm, and his LinkedIn headline lists him as a Quantitative Researcher there.
- Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. The role is a Quantitative Research Intern at Susquehanna International Group (SIG), announced by Singhal himself in a LinkedIn post ('I'm excited to share that after completing...') and listed on his LinkedIn profile (/in/dsinghal5). Identity is supported independently by his UCI dissertation, UCI math directory, personal site and the official IMO 2016 record. SIG is a genuine quantitative trading firm - a global market maker / proprietary options and equities trading firm (sig.com) - so the employer classification as quantitative finance holds. Evidence is self-published (his LinkedIn announcement and profile), not independent third-party confirmation; this is a summer 2026 role, and SIG's own site is the firm-classification source.2026
- Completed a PhD in Mathematics at UC Irvine (2026); dissertation on sandpile groups of random directed and undirected bipartite graphs.2026
- Represented India and won a Bronze medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2016.2016
- Author of roughly fourteen peer-reviewed papers in number theory, combinatorics and arithmetic statistics, incl. venues like IMRN, Discrete Applied Math and INTEGERS.2026
- Earned an MS in Mathematics from UC Irvine (June 2022) and a BSc in Mathematics with First Class Honours from HKUST (Spring 2020), with a semester exchange at NUS (Spring 2019).2022
- Represented India at the Asia Pacific Math Olympiad 2015 with an Honourable Mention.2015
- UC Irvine honors include the Von Neumann Award (Spring 2024), Euler Outstanding Promise as a Graduate Student Award (Spring 2022), Department Fellowship (Winter 2022) and the Howard Tucker Scholarship (2020).2024
- Completed the Erdos Institute Data Science Bootcamp (Spring 2025) and Deep Learning Bootcamp (Summer 2025); the data science bootcamp produced a project analyzing social/economic predictors of California county crime rates.2025
- Placed 1st in his university and 29th overall at the Simon Marais Mathematics Competition 2019 (Stonehage Fleming/Marais Prize); ranked 13th (98.03 percentile) in 2018.2019
- Served as a counselor at the Ross Mathematics Program (Ohio State University) in 2017 and 2018.2018
Competition record
India · IMO