Dor Shmoish

Israeli mathematician; IMO silver medalist 2014 and gold medalist 2015 for Israel; Tel Aviv University mathematics; first-author arXiv preprint on the Berezin transform (2021); algorithmic/quantitative researcher at Final (Israeli HFT firm) per a provider index.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. A provider index (not independent primary-source confirmation) lists Dor Shmoish as 'Algorithm Developer / Quantitative Researcher' at Final starting 2020-11 with headline 'Quantitative Researcher at Final'; Final is an established Israeli high-frequency/algorithmic-trading firm (final.co.il), a genuine quantitative-finance employer class. Identity is supported by the distinctive name tying the Israeli IMO contestant, the Tel Aviv University mathematics researcher and the Final role lead; the role is index-only and not yet corroborated by a primary source.Sep 17, 2026
• 'Final' (final.co.il) is a genuine quantitative finance employer: since 2001 it runs a machine-learning-based high-frequency algorithmic-trading platform trading on dozens of exchanges across six continents.Nov 3, 2025
• Final's research staff is doctorate-heavy per its firm profile, so a mathematics-trained researcher is a plausible fit.2025
• First-author arXiv preprint 'The Spectrum of the Berezin transform for Gelfand pairs' (math-ph) submitted 14 Jun 2021; work on POVMs, Gelfand pairs and quantization, consistent with a Tel Aviv University mathematics thesis in the symplectic/quantization group.Jun 14, 2021
• IMO 2015: represented Israel, gold medal, 27 points, rank 32 of 577 (problem scores 7,7,2,7,4,0).Jul 2015
• IMO 2014: represented Israel, silver medal, 22 points, rank 124 of 560.Jul 2014
• ResearchGate lists affiliation Tel Aviv University, Department of Mathematical Sciences (pure mathematics); 4 publications, 12 citations.2021
• Won the 2015 IMO gold while a 12th-grade high-school student; Israeli coverage identifies him as a high-school student from Netanya, so he was likely born around 1996-1997.Jul 2015
• Placed 3rd in the 2014 (תשע"ד) Gillis Mathematics Olympiad at the Weizmann Institute.2014