Ilias Giechaskiel

Ilias Giechaskiel holds a DPhil in Cyber Security from the University of Oxford for the thesis 'Leaky Hardware: Modeling and Exploiting Imperfections in Embedded Devices', funded by the Clarendon Fund, the EPSRC, Kellogg College, and the CDT in Cyber Security. He previously earned an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science with Distinction from the University of Cambridge (2014, Goulandris Scholar, Magdalene College) and an AB in Mathematics with a Certificate in Applications of Computing from Princeton University (2013, Summa Cum Laude). He represented Greece at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2008 and 2009. He worked as a Senior Hardware Research Engineer at Jump Trading until 2025, having also interned there in the summers of 2017 and 2018, and has held internships with Microsoft Research, Dropbox, Microsoft, and Bloomberg.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Self-authored personal site (ilias.giechaskiel.com/about.html) states he was a Senior Hardware Research Engineer at Jump Trading until 2025 and spent the summers of 2017 and 2018 at Jump Trading, corroborated by his LinkedIn profile headline 'Senior Hardware Research Engineer'. Employer classification: Jump Trading LLC is a proprietary trading firm / market maker engaged in electronic, quantitative and algorithmic trading, so it is a genuine quantitative-finance employer; the roles held (hardware research engineer; hardware/FPGA internships) are engineering roles at that firm, not student programs or insight days. Additional financial-sector internship: Bloomberg, Data License team (not a quantitative trading role). Microsoft Research, Dropbox and Microsoft internships are unrelated to quantitative finance.
• Was a Senior Hardware Research Engineer at Jump Trading until 2025 and spent the summers of 2017 and 2018 at Jump Trading; earlier internships with Microsoft Research (Embedded Systems), Dropbox (Product Abuse), Microsoft (Windows Security) and Bloomberg (Data License) are unrelated to quantitative trading, so Jump is the sole quantitative-finance employer on the record.
• DPhil in Cyber Security, University of Oxford, thesis 'Leaky Hardware: Modeling and Exploiting Imperfections in Embedded Devices', funded by the Clarendon Fund, the EPSRC, Kellogg College, and the CDT in Cyber Security.
• Education timeline: Valedictorian of Anatolia College's IB Diploma Programme (2009); AB in Mathematics and Certificate in Applications of Computing, Princeton, 2013 (Summa Cum Laude); MPhil in Advanced Computer Science with Distinction, Cambridge, 2014 (Goulandris Scholar, Magdalene College).
• Represented Greece at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2008 and 2009 (IMO contestant record).
• Research focus is hardware and cloud-FPGA security: peer-reviewed publications on cross-VM covert/side-channel attacks (2023) and Springer book chapters on power-based and contention-based FPGA threats (2024).
• Self-authored about page lists only 'until 2025' for Jump Trading with no role after it, so no current employer is claimed by the primary source.
• Spent the first half of 2019 as a Visiting Assistant in Research at Yale's Computer Architecture and Security Lab, later a Research Affiliate; taught as a TA/grader in Computer Science at Princeton and in mathematics/computer science at Oxford.