Gopal Goel

American mathematician and engineer. Represented the United States at the 2018 International Physics Olympiad (gold) and the 2020 International Mathematical Olympiad (silver), and placed fourth in the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search. Studied mathematics and physics at MIT (2021-2024). Now works on applied AI as Agent Foundations Lead at Rox in San Francisco. Published research in combinatorics, integrable probability and algebraic combinatorics.

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• Quant employment verification - UNRESOLVED: The only evidence of a quantitative-finance role is a single index/aggregator-derived LinkedIn record listing 'Quantitative Analyst at The D. E. Shaw Group' (New York, 2024). No independent primary source was found confirming this role, and the record shows no month-level dates. Classification: The D. E. Shaw Group is a genuine quantitative hedge fund / asset manager (per its own site and Wikipedia), so the employer does qualify as quantitative finance; but the specific role and dates remain uncorroborated. The listed 2024-06 to 2024-08 date range in the task lead is not present in any source seen; his public records instead show Rox roles from 2024, and no other quant employer. Verdict UNRESOLVED - the identity is supported, but the quant role rests on a single aggregator record and is not independently confirmed.2024
• Cross-source synthesis: the person behind the IMO/Regeneron records is the same as the Rox engineer - his personal site (the hub) directly links the IMO participant page, the IPhO team page, and his LinkedIn/GitHub/X, and a reverse-image search of his headshot returns his LinkedIn profile, which closes the identity loop between the Olympiad identity and the current employment record.2026
• Agent Foundations Lead at Rox, San Francisco, since 2025; previously Software Engineer at Rox (2024-2025), i.e. his surfaced full-time roles are at an applied-AI company, not a trading firm.2025
• Fourth place in the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search ($100,000) at age 17 from Portland, Oregon, for mathematics linking two areas of randomness and probability, generalizing a connection prior work had only shown in a special case - the same combinatorics/probability thread he later published on.2021
• Silver medal for the United States at the 2020 International Mathematical Olympiad: 27 of 42 points, rank 114 (81.7 percentile).2020
• Gold medal for the United States at the 2018 International Physics Olympiad in Lisbon (age ~16); the US team finished 7th of 60 countries. Listed as attending Krishna Homeschool.Jul 2018
• Public contact email [contact omitted], published on his personal homepage; no phone number is public.
• Rox builds applied-AI (LLM 'agent') products for the Global 2000, backed by Sequoia and an OpenAI partnership, which places his current work in applied AI rather than quantitative finance.2025
• Studied mathematics and physics at MIT (2021-2024 per his LinkedIn education record); undergraduate research was in integrable probability and algebraic combinatorics.2024
• Co-authored 'Critical groups of iterated cones' with David Perkinson (arXiv:1809.07379, 2018-19), a combinatorics/graph-theory paper on critical (sandpile) groups of iterated cones.Jan 2019