Edgar Minasyan

Edgar Minasyan is a PhD candidate in computer science at Princeton University advised by Elad Hazan, working on machine-learning theory, specifically online learning with applications to reinforcement learning and control, plus large-scale convex and nonconvex optimization. He completed his undergraduate degree at MIT. Before university he represented Armenia at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2012, 2013 and 2014, winning silver, bronze and silver medals, and competed at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2013. He has authored peer-reviewed papers at NeurIPS, COLT, ICML, L4DC and the ML4H workshop, including work on online control of time-varying dynamical systems and projection-free online learning. His public record is academic; no quantitative-finance employment is evidenced.

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• Quant employment verification: NOT CONFIRMED. No primary source (personal site, GitHub, publications, Princeton pages, press) shows any role or internship at Squarepoint or any other quantitative investment, trading, market-making or hedge-fund employer. The caller-supplied lead 'Squarepoint - Quantitative Researcher, Feb 2024-Dec 2024' is contradicted by the person's own current public record, which places him as a full-time PhD student at Princeton through a 2025/2026 defense; the one LinkedIn-index row naming Squarepoint (people_search) is a title/company-less index record on the same URL and is index-only, not independent primary-source confirmation. Squarepoint Capital LLP is indeed a real systematic/quantitative hedge fund, so the employer would qualify if a role existed, but no supported role or internship is evidenced, and a student program alone would not qualify. Identity itself is supported (IMO 2012/2013/2014 Armenia + MIT + Princeton CS PhD, cross-linked via personal site, GitHub and LinkedIn index).
• Building the Quant employment verification note.
• Quant employment verification (cont.): the only employment evidence is academic - 'PhD Candidate and Researcher' at Princeton University Computer Science per LinkedIn index; no bank, asset manager, energy-trading or crypto-trading employer appears in any source read.
• LinkedIn index (name, MIT + Princeton education) matches linkedin.com/in/edgar-minasyan, returned as 'PhD Candidate and Researcher' at Princeton University Computer Science; this cross-links the Armenian Olympiad identity to the Princeton ML researcher.'
• Personal site states he is a final (fifth-year) PhD student in Princeton CS advised by Elad Hazan, with undergrad at MIT; research in online learning with applications to reinforcement learning and control, and large-scale convex/nonconvex optimization.
• IMO record: represented Armenia at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2012 (Silver, 22 pts, rank 96), 2013 (Bronze, 23 pts, rank 138) and 2014 (Silver, 22 pts, rank 124) per IMO official participant id 21625.
• Scheduled a Princeton CS 'Final Public Oral' (FPO) thesis defense; the event listing indicates he is completing (not starting) the PhD, consistent with an expected ~2025/2026 completion rather than a return to industry.
• Author of seven peer-reviewed ML papers, including NeurIPS 2021 (Online Control of Unknown Time-Varying Dynamical Systems), COLT 2020 (Faster Projection-free Online Learning) and ICML 2019 (Predicate Exchange), a consistently theory-first optimization/control record.
• GitHub handle minasyan is confirmed as his: the account name is 'Edgar Minasyan' and it owns minasyan/minasyan.github.io, the repository backing his personal site which links github.
• Also listed as an Armenia contestant at the International Olympiad in Informatics 2013 (stats.ioinformatics.org person 2966) and profiled by the Competitive Programming Hall of Fame (cphof.org ioi:2966); competitive-programming record predates his university years.
• Part of Princeton's 2021 project applying machine learning to mechanical ventilation control during COVID, published at ML4H 2021 and covered by Princeton Engineering news.