EMErvin Macić
- Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. No confirmed quant-finance role or internship found. The only quant-adjacent item is the 'Discover Citadel' student insight program (March 2025), which is not employment; Citadel Securities is a market maker but a student program is not a role.Mar 2025
- 'Discover Citadel' (2025, London) is a student/insight program - panel discussions, talks, trading games and a bot trading competition - NOT employment; does not qualify as a quant role.Mar 2025
- IMO bronze medals for Bosnia and Herzegovina: 2021 (rank 268, 13 pts) and 2023 (rank 183, 23 pts), per imo-official.org contestant results.Jul 2023
- Junior Machine Learning and IoT Engineer at Isaac code (Sarajevo), 2021-2024, working on a smart cattle monitoring system (Cow Gazer) co-funded by the EU's EU4AGRI grant - a real multi-year technical role, not a quant role.2021-2024
- Non-Trivial Fellow & Facilitator (2023-2024), selected from 20,000+ applicants into a 100-fellow cohort; built 'Constitutional AI via debate' with Julia Volovich, which won second prize at demo day.2023-2024
- Google Talent Fund 'Big Talent' Scholar (GTF) profile exists for Ervin Macic with the same Oxford/IMO background - corroborates identity across a second independent source.2025
- Enrolled at University of Oxford (Mathematics and Computer Science, 2024-2027); previously one year of Computer Science at University of Sarajevo (2023-2024); high school at Druga gimnazija Sarajevo (2019-2023). Index-sourced (LinkedIn).Sep 2024
- Projects page lists Cow Gazer, FMHL (Free Media Help Line, USAID-funded), Interactive Problem Repository, and Constitutional AI via debate; GitHub user 'FrequentErvin'.2024
- Junior Research Associate at ARTIAnalytics (Sarajevo), 2023-2024: model speedup via decomposition/quantization and a platform for neural networks with evolving arbitrary graph structure. Technical research, not quant finance. Index-sourced.2023-2024
- Oxford AI Safety Initiative - Alignment Research Bootcamp Oxford (2025): 2-week intensive ML safety bootcamp (gpt-2-small, interpretability, RLHF). A training program, not employment.2025
- Lecturer and organiser of Maths Beyond Limits Balkans (2022-2024); participant in WARP 2022 at The Queen's College, Oxford (European Summer Program on Rationality).2022-2024
Learned about the Citadel and Citadel Securities business through panel discussions, talks, and hands-on games. Practiced trading, collaborated in teams, and wrote bots for a tradi
A 2-week intensive bootcamp to rapidly build skills in ML safety, including building gpt-2-small, learning interpretability techniques, understanding RLHF, and replicating key rese
Worked on speeding up models using decomposition and quantization algorithms. Worked on a platform for creating neural networks with arbitrary graph structure which evolves during
8-week fellowship to develop a project to solve the world's most pressing problems. Selected from 20,000+ applicants in a cohort of 100 fellows. Throughout the fellowship, each fel
Lecturer and organiser of the Maths Beyond Limits project based in the Balkans. The participants are some of the most talented, mathematically talented high schoolers in the world.
An immersive 14-day program for talented high schoolers to explore fields such as rationality, epistemology, game theory, and AI safety at The Queen's College, Oxford
Worked on a smart cattle monitoring system for extensive agriculture. This project was co-funded by the EU through the EU4AGRI grant.
Competition record
Bosnia and Herzegovina · IMO