Giancarlo Kerg

Giancarlo Kerg is a Luxembourgish mathematician, educator and founder. He competed for Luxembourg at the IMO in 2006, 2007 and 2008 (bronze 2007) and now serves as Deputy Leader of Luxembourg's IMO team, having authored Problem 1 of the 2026 IMO. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Université de Montréal/Mila, supervised by Yoshua Bengio, an M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics from ULB and Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge. Since 2023 he runs GCBK Consulting; he taught mathematics at Athénée de Luxembourg (2025-2026) and coaches Luxembourg's olympiad program. His employment history is academic, research-internship and consulting based, not quantitative trading.

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• Quant employment verification: NOT CONFIRMED. No role at a quantitative investment, trading, market-making, hedge-fund or systematic/algorithmic trading firm appears in his CV, LinkedIn or personal site; his only finance-adjacent employment is QuantCo (a data-science/economics consultancy, not a quant finance firm) and SavingGlobal (a fintech savings marketplace, later Raisin). His quantitative background is academic (pure mathematics, then deep-learning research), not trading.Sep 17, 2026
• Identity verified: the IMO participant page (id 8723) for Giancarlo Kerg (Luxembourg, IMO 2006/2007/2008) and his own personal site both describe the same mathematics trajectory (IMO medals -> ULB -> Cambridge Part III -> Mila PhD), corroborating that the LinkedIn, personal site, CV and Kaggle profile are one person.Sep 17, 2026
• Full career timeline from his own CV: GCBK Consulting founder 03/2023-present; Mila PhD 09/2017-03/2023; QuantCo Data Scientist (Intern) 02/2017-08/2017; Hammer Lab ML Researcher (Intern) 06/2016-12/2016; Humboldt University Research Associate 03/2015-06/2016; SavingGlobal BI Analyst (Intern) 08/2014-10/2014; Startup Institute 05-07/2014 - every industry role is research or consulting, none in trading.Sep 17, 2026
• QuantCo is a data science/engineering/economics consultancy (offices Boston, Berlin, Cologne, Karlsruhe, London, Munich, San Francisco, Zurich) whose product line is algorithmic pricing and claims management for insurers and industry - it is not a quantitative investment, trading or market-making firm, so the 'quant' in its name is misleading for this task.Sep 17, 2026
• Published email on his own CV: [contact omitted].Sep 17, 2026
• His QuantCo role is explicitly labelled 'Data Scientist (Intern)' on his own CV, confirming it was an internship (02/2017-08/2017), not a permanent quant role.Sep 17, 2026
• He authored Problem 1 of the IMO 2026 (Shanghai) and served as Deputy Leader of Luxembourg's team, which achieved the country's best IMO result; also Deputy Leader for BxMO 2026 and on its Problem Selection Committee.Sep 17, 2026
• PhD in Computer Science at Mila (Université de Montréal) supervised by Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio with co-advisor Guillaume Lajoie; his NeurIPS 2020 paper 'Untangling trade-offs between recurrence and self-attention in artificial neural networks' is the flagship output of that work.Mar 1, 2023
• Runs GCBK Consulting (founded 03/2023, Luxembourg) as Founder & Managing Director, offering personal branding and marketing consulting using artificial intelligence - his current commercial activity.Mar 1, 2023
• Authored the long-form essay 'Beyond the AGI Timeline', a synthesis of evidence on AI timelines, research automation, economic diffusion and ownership - evidence his current writing is AI-policy/safety oriented rather than technical ML.Sep 17, 2026
• Taught mathematics at Athénée de Luxembourg (06/2025-07/2026), mostly International Baccalaureate, and led a Grade 9 class to first place in the 2026 MaachMath Competition - a teaching path running in parallel with his olympiad coaching rather than a return to industry research.Jul 1, 2026
• Coaches Luxembourg's Mathematics Olympiad Program (09/2022-present) and is sole author of the 2026 Team Selection Tests for both BxMO and IMO, in addition to being Deputy Leader - he has become a central organiser of Luxembourg olympiad mathematics.Sep 1, 2022