Ihnat Zharikhin

Ihnat Zharikhin is a Ukrainian computer-science student at the University of Cambridge (Jesus College) and a 2024 International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) bronze medallist for Ukraine. As a pupil at Kharkiv Academic Lyceum No. 45 he also won bronze at CEOI 2024, silver at EJOI 2022 and a first-place diploma at the 2023 All-Ukrainian Olympiad in Informatics, and he later set problems and served on the jury for the Ukrainian Federation of Olympiad Programming. He is currently an AI Engineering Intern at Light (light.inc) in London and has taken part in Cambridge hackathons and youth research programmes. His documented roles are in software/AI and olympiad work; no quantitative-finance employment is evidenced.

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• Quant employment verification: NOT CONFIRMED. No actual quantitative-finance role or internship is substantiated. The only finance-adjacent item is the IMC Trading Launchpad (a two-day discovery programme, not employment); the current Light role is AI/software engineering; the flagged CUNY item is academic summer research. No bank, asset manager, hedge fund, or market-making role past or present is evidenced.Sep 2026
• Current role AI Engineering Intern at Light (light.inc), a software/AI company in London, summer 2026 - a tech role, not a quantitative-finance role.Jul 2026
• IMC Trading 'Launchpad - Technology' (May 2026) is a two-day career development / discovery program for early-year students that feeds an internship pipeline - not an internship or employment role. IMC is a genuine quantitative market-making firm, but a Launchpad placement is a student programme, not a role.May 2026
• IOI 2024: represented Ukraine and won a bronze medal (total 286.13, rank 95/353), confirmed on the official IOI results site and Ukraine's UOI news.Sep 2024
• Named a Global Talent Fund 'BIG Scholar' (2025 cohort), studying at Jesus College, University of Cambridge.2025
• Trajectory: an 11th-grade IOI 2024 bronze medallist who matriculated at the University of Cambridge (Jesus College) in 2025, moving from competition programming into AI engineering and research programmes.2025
• Won a bronze medal at CEOI 2024 (Central European Olympiad in Informatics, Brno, June 2024) as an 11th-grade student.Jun 2024
• Other pre-university honours: First Place Diploma at the All-Ukrainian Olympiad in Informatics 2023, silver at the International Autumn Tournament in Informatics, gold at InfO1Cup, and a third place diploma at the All-Ukrainian Physics Olympiad 2023.2023
• Won a Silver Medal at the European Junior Olympiad in Informatics (EJOI) 2022 at age 15, per EJOI results and the University of Vienna Kharkiv-Vienna participant page.2022
• Team 'Call Safe' at Varsity Hackathon 2026 designed a real-time system that analyses live phone calls to detect AI-generated voices; teammates Finley Stirk, Mani Ipchi and Leo Thom.2026
• LinkedIn lists a 'Summer research' stint at The City University of New York (CUNY) - index/profile claim, academic research, not a trading role.
• Competed for Kharkiv Academic Lyceum No. 45, coached by Valentyn Melnyk and Mykola Arzubov.Sep 2024