Ignacio Darago

Ignacio Darago is a quantitative researcher at Squarepoint Capital in New York, where he has worked since 2022. He is a mathematician by training: he earned a Licentiate in Mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires (2013-2016), competed for Argentina at the 2012 International Mathematical Olympiad (bronze medal), and completed a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 2022 with a thesis on trace methods and singular support in algebraic geometry. Before finance he taught undergraduate calculus at the University of Chicago and differential geometry at the University of Buenos Aires. His co-authored paper 'Arithmetic inflection of superelliptic curves' (arXiv:2110.04813) is his main peer-reviewed publication.

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• Only employer with a quantitative-finance character is Squarepoint Capital (Quantitative Researcher, from 2022, New York) - matched on linkedin.com under the same name and Squarepoint title. No bank, energy or crypto trading employer appears; every other listed role is academic teaching.
• Quant employment verification - CONFIRMED: identity supported (IMO 2012 Argentina / UBA / UChicago PhD all match the same person) and an actual role is evidenced, 'Quantitative Researcher' at Squarepoint Capital from 2022-07, a firm verified to operate in quantitative/systematic investing. The role and employer stem from the internal index record for his LinkedIn profile plus a third-party directory listing carrying the same Squarepoint title; the index and aggregator are not treated as independent primary-source confirmation of the role's current status.
• Doctoral thesis 'Trace Methods and Singular Support' (University of Chicago, 2022, DOI 10.6082/uchicago.4008) explores categorical methods in algebraic geometry; the UChicago library lists him in the Spring 2022 dissertations cohort, dating the completion of his PhD.2022
• Represented Argentina at the 53rd International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO 2012, Mar del Plata, Argentina), earning a bronze medal with 17/42 points (rank 182). Listed as 'Ignacio Martín Darago' of Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires by the tournament organisers, matching the name on his later academic records.Jul 2012
• Squarepoint Capital is a global, systematic/quantitative investment manager (New York and London headquartered, ~$10bn+ under management, statistical-arbitrage and machine-learning strategies), not merely a name containing 'quant' - so a researcher role there is genuinely a quantitative-finance position.
• No documented internship, student insight-day or camp in quantitative finance was found; the only pre-2022 professional experience on record is academic teaching, so the 2022 Squarepoint role is his first known industry position.
• Co-authored 'Arithmetic inflection of superelliptic curves' (arXiv:2110.04813, first posted 2021-10-10, revised 2024-12-17) with E. Cotterill, C. Garay López and C. Han, published in a peer-reviewed venue and cited by later work - his main research line in algebraic geometry.Oct 10, 2021
• Selected as one of the six titular 'ganadores del selectivo' for Argentina's IMO 2012 team, announced 2012-05-17 by the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires (UBA); teammate Mariano Bonifacio and others named alongside.May 17, 2012
• Mathematics Genealogy Project records his PhD advisor at the University of Chicago as Alexander Beilinson (doctoral year 2022).2022
• Personal site (idarago.github.io) carries technical blog posts implementing a neural network from scratch in C++ and visualising Buenos Aires COVID-19 and population-density data - evidence of independent software work and data-visualisation skill alongside the pure-mathematics research.2020
• Education timeline is continuous: Licentiate in Mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires (2013-2016) immediately after secondary school (CNBA, class of 2012), then a Mathematics PhD at UChicago (2017-2022) - no gap between the UBA degree and the start of the doctorate.2017
• Between the PhD and finance he held multiple teaching roles: Graduate Student Instructor teaching undergraduate Calculus at the University of Chicago (2019-2022), plus earlier teaching-assistant posts at the University of Buenos Aires in 2017 (differential geometry) and 2015-2017 (linear algebra, numerical calculus, PDEs, algebraic structures).