Humaid Alhuthali

Saudi competitive programmer (IOI 2023 bronze medalist) studying Computer Science and Engineering at MIT; index profile lists a 2024-25 Quantitative Researcher stint at Saudi Azm doing algorithmic trading on Tadawul and a 2026 Anthropic Research Fellow role.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Humaid Alhuthali's index-derived LinkedIn profile lists a Quantitative Researcher role at Saudi Azm (Dec 2024 - Feb 2025, ~3 months) doing algorithmic trading on the Tadawul/Saudi Exchange; his identity is independently supported (IOI 2023 Saudi contestant = the 'IOI '23 | AI @ MIT' account). The employer was verified: Saudi Azm (azm.sa, Tadawul 7211) is an IT services/IT consulting company, not a hedge fund, prop shop, or market maker, so the role is genuine quant/algorithmic-trading work but at a non-quant-finance employer. Two peers (Nezar Bakhsh, Zaid Alshenguity) held matching Saudi Azm algorithmic-trading roles, corroborating the team's existence. Caveat: the role itself rests on the LinkedIn-derived index, not an independent primary source, and a search for hedge-fund/trading internships at banks, asset managers, prop firms, or energy/crypto trading firms found none. CONFIDENCE: actual role = yes (index-only), employer is quant-finance firm = no.2025
• Identity resolution: the LinkedIn account humaidalhuthali (headline 'IOI '23 | AI @ MIT', location Greater Boston) is the same person as the IOI 2023 Saudi contestant Humaid Alhuthali - the IOI statistics page, CP Hall of Fame, and Saudi Informatics Team roster independently confirm the IOI 2023 bronze; the account claims the IOI '23 identity and links the MIT/Dhahran education the competition records corroborate.2026
• Saudi Azm (azm.sa, Tadawul-listed 7211) is an IT services and IT consulting company founded 2017 in Riyadh, not a quant fund, market maker, or hedge fund; its quant/algorithmic-trading work sits in a small research unit rather than being the firm's core business. The role is real quant research but the employer is not a quantitative-finance firm.2026
• Index-only claim (LinkedIn-derived local index, not primary-source confirmed): Saudi Azm 'Quantitative Researcher', Saudi Arabia, Dec 2024 - Feb 2025 (3 months), described as 'Algorithmic trading in Tadawul (Saudi Exchange)'. A short, dated internship-scale stint rather than a current role.2025
• Won a Bronze medal at IOI 2023 (Szeged, Hungary, Aug 2023), scoring 206/600 at rank 114/115 - the highest score and top rank of the four-member Saudi team (Essa Almousa 150, Adeeb Alshehri 115, Juri Aljohani 49). Mawhiba's release names him as a Saudi secondary-school student from the Al-Sharqiya (Eastern Province) education department.Sep 4, 2023
• Index-only claim: current 'Research Fellow' at Anthropic (Greater Boston), listed 2026-. No independent Anthropic page, press, or publication confirms this; it rests on the LinkedIn-derived index and the account headline 'AI @ MIT'.2026
• No detectable quantitative-finance role at a bank, asset manager, hedge fund, market maker, proprietary trading firm, or energy/crypto trading firm: targeted searches for hedge-fund/trading internships and firms alongside this name returned only the Saudi Azm algorithmic-trading stint, so the quant footprint is limited to that one Saudi-exchange research role.2026
• Two peers on the same Saudi Azm algorithmic-trading team: Nezar Bakhsh (Quantitative Researcher, Saudi Azm, Jul 2024 - Jun 2025, 'researched and implemented two systematic alpha strategies') and Zaid Alshenguity (worked on algorithmic trading strategies for Tadawul at Saudi Azm). The shared group and stock-market/alpha language show Humaid's listed role was genuine quant research on a real team, not a title alone.2025
• Index-only claim: 'Undergraduate Researcher - Vision Group' at MIT CSAIL (2025), Greater Boston, described as interpretability for computer vision in Antonio Torralba's lab.2025
• Prior IOI participation: represented Saudi Arabia at IOI 2021 (rank 316), and also at APIO 2023, BOI 2023, and APIO 2024 (per the Saudi Informatics Team roster), establishing a multi-year competitive-programming trajectory from 2021 through 2024.2024
• Codeforces handle 'heqr' (Humaid Alhuthali, Khobar, Saudi Arabia; profile notes 'From KAUST'), contest rating 1623, listed on the Saudi national team page and linked from CP Hall of Fame: the handle is an identity anchor tying the competitive-programming persona to the person.2024
• Education: Dhahran Ahliyya Schools (high school, 2020-2024) then Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering - index-only for the MIT enrollment and degree; high school and 2024 graduation year are corroborated by the Saudi team's 'graduation year: 2024' and the index profile.2024