Farbod Yadegarian

Algorithm Developer and Algorithm Development team lead at Hudson River Trading (HRT). University of Waterloo alumnus (2016-2020); IOI bronze medalist for Canada in 2015 and 2016. Prior HRT roles: Core Developer (2021-2023), Core Development Intern (2020). Earlier internships at Uber, Uber Advanced Technologies Group, and Wish; undergraduate research assistant at Waterloo.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Farbod Yadegarian has had an actual, continuous employment relationship with Hudson River Trading (HRT) since 2020 - Core Development Intern (2020 internship), Core Developer (2021-2023), and Algorithm Developer (2023-present). HRT is a global quantitative/high-frequency trading firm (classified quantitative trading by its own operations, not merely a name containing 'quant'), so these roles sit squarely in quantitative trading. Identity is supported by cross-linked evidence: an HRT/UWaterloo WICS event page (May 2026) names 'Farbod Yadegarian' as a lead on HRT's Algorithm Development Team and a Waterloo alumnus. Role dates/titles rest on LinkedIn-derived index data plus that event page; the index alone is not independent primary-source confirmation.May 13, 2026
• HRT's Algorithm Development team, where Yadegarian is a lead, 'researches and builds HRT's predictive models and trading strategies' - a quantitative research/strategy role, not a generic software title.May 13, 2026
• At IOI 2015 he was entering Grade 12 (still in high school), placing the high-school/Waterloo boundary at fall 2016 - consistent with his Waterloo start year of 2016.Aug 4, 2015
• Mentored HRT's Women in Trading and Technology Internship and HRT's Summer Internship Program - senior/mentoring standing within HRT's early-career pipeline.May 13, 2026
• HRT career sequence shows an internship-to-full-time path: Core Development Intern (2020) preceded Core Developer (2021). This is an early-career sequence at a quant firm; no source states a recruiting mechanism, so no causal claim is made.
• Spoke on 'Algorithmic Trading 101' at Waterloo's Women in Computer Science (May 13, 2026) alongside HRT colleagues - a public-speaking/recruiting signal at his alma mater.May 13, 2026
• Gave a 'Graphs and Matroids' seminar at Waterloo (Feb 27, 2020) titled 'Excluding an asymmetric group labelled graph', affiliation University of Waterloo - evidence of undergraduate combinatorial research.Feb 27, 2020
• Earlier software engineering internships at Uber, Uber Advanced Technologies Group, and Wish appear in the LinkedIn-derived index; none is a quantitative finance employer, and each is attributed to the index only (not independently primary-source confirmed here).
• Competitive-programming aliases: Codeforces handle 'NoWoDeYo' (linked from his IOI stats profile); also 'Farbody'/'FarbodyY' on other judges. He is the Canadian IOI contestant for 2015 and 2016.