George Chen

I'm currently pursuing a Bachelor of Computer Science degree at the University of Waterloo. Feel free to connect at [contact omitted]

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Identity is supported: the LinkedIn handle 'thebes2', GitHub login 'thebes2', Codeforces handle 'thebes', and the Canada IOI 2019/2020 record all point to the same person, and recruitment/team pages name him in a quantitative-technology role. Employment evidence: an actual internship at Radix Trading LLC as Quantitative Technologist Intern (LinkedIn headline/experience; recruitment-page team listing) and a Software Engineer Internship at Jane Street (Jan-Apr 2024). Employer classification: Radix Trading (radixtrading.co) self-describes as 'a research firm, powered by technology and monetized through trading' using 'machine learning and statistical methodologies' - a systematic/quantitative trading firm; Jane Street Group is a quantitative trading/proprietary market-making firm. Both are quantitative-finance employers, so the quant-employment claim is CONFIRMED (not index-only).Sep 2026
• CPHOF profile (handle 'thebes', matching LinkedIn username thebes2 and Codeforces 'thebes') records IOI 2019 Bronze (323.69/600) and IOI 2020 Silver (399.96/600) for Canada.Sep 2020
• IOI statistics site lists George Chen as a Canada competitor at IOI 2019 (score 48.69, 52nd).Aug 2019
• LinkedIn headline: Quantitative Technologist Intern @ Radix and Computer Science @ University of Waterloo; summary gives contact [contact omitted].
• Employer history surfaced by profile enrichment/index (NOT yet independently confirmed): SWE Intern Jane Street (2024), Research Intern Waabi (2022-2023), SWE Intern Databricks (2023), SWE Intern Monad Labs (2022), SWE Intern Wish (2021), Full Stack Developer Ontario Ministry of Health (2020).
• Radix Trading is a proprietary trading firm that frames itself as 'a research firm, powered by technology and monetized through trading', developing strategies via machine learning and statistical methodologies - i.e., systematic/algorithmic trading rather than a name-only 'quant' label.Sep 2026
• Jane Street Group is an international proprietary trading firm (market maker) in equities, bonds, and ETFs - a quantitative trading employer, not a student program.Sep 2026
• UWaterloo Math news: Chen earned a silver medal at IOI 2020 as a first-year student in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.Sep 2020
• UWaterloo CS news (Oct 29, 2020) covers the Waterloo-local ICPC-style contest and names George Chen (1A CS) finishing fifth, solving three of five problems - the competitive-programming record and his first-year CS enrolment are documented by the university news page.Oct 29, 2020
• Codeforces handle 'thebes' = George Chen, Toronto Canada, University of Waterloo; max rating 2478 (grandmaster).
• Third-party people directory TheOrg lists 'George Chen - Quantitative Technologist Intern' on the Radix Trading quantitative-analysis team page (aggregator/index listing, not primary-source confirmation).Sep 2026
• GitHub account github.com/thebes2 carries 'University of Waterloo CS 2025' and 13 public repositories; the login matches the LinkedIn and Codeforces handle 'thebes' used elsewhere for this person.Sep 2026