Ilyes Hamdi

Ilyes Hamdi is an Algerian/French quantitative and AI practitioner. He studied at CentraleSupelec (Master's, General Engineering, 2019-2023) after two years of MPSI-MP* at Lycee Louis-le-Grand. His index-listed roles include Quantitative Researcher at Boussard & Gavaudan (London, 2023), Quantitative Trader at Ezpada Group (Prague, 2024-2025), AI Engineer at cMatter (Abu Dhabi), and Founder & AI Consultant at ITQAN AI (Paris, 2026-). He has been an instructor at AwesomeMath since 2018 and is an IMO medalist (Algeria).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Identity is anchored to LinkedIn /in/hamdilyes (headline 'AI Consultant | IMO Medalist', CentraleSupelec education), matching the Ilyes Hamdi who represented Algeria at IMO 2015/2017. The index lists two actual quantitative-finance roles: Quantitative Researcher at Boussard & Gavaudan (London, 2023; multi-factor risk modelling, performance attribution, portfolio optimization) and Quantitative Trader at Ezpada Group (Prague, 2024-2025; short-term trading strategies, time-series forecasting for electricity market predictions). Employer classification: Boussard & Gavaudan is a global alternative multistrategy investment manager (a hedge fund; arbitrage and derivatives) per its own site; Ezpada is a commodity trading house trading power, natural gas, oil and carbon, an EPEX SPOT exchange member, i.e. an energy/power trading firm. Both are genuine quantitative-finance employers, not name-only 'quant' companies. Caveat: the two roles and their one-line descriptions are index-only (no independent primary-source confirmation was found), and neither Ezpada's site nor B&G publishes employee rosters, so the role/identity link rests on the LinkedIn-derived index rather than a second primary source.
• Ezpada is not a name-only 'quant' shop: its own site describes a commodity trading house trading power, natural gas, oil and refined products, bulk and agricultural commodities, carbon credits and emission certificates across Europe, the USA and Asia, and it appears as an EPEX SPOT power-exchange member - so a 'Quantitative Trader' there is a power/energy-markets systematic role.2026
• Boussard & Gavaudan describes itself as a global alternative multistrategy investment management group (London, Paris, New York) focused on events, catalysts and arbitrage across equity, credit and volatility - a hedge fund, matching the 'Quantitative Researcher' role and its stated multi-factor risk / portfolio-optimization work.2026
• Namesake caution: the name 'Ilyes Hamdi' is shared by at least a Tunisian academic (ISSAT Gafsa, ab-initio physics/DFT researcher) and a Sopra HR employee in Tunis, and several footballers appear on transfer sites - these are distinct people and were excluded; the profile here is fixed to the CentraleSupelec / IMO-Algeria identity at /in/hamdilyes.
• As of 2026 he is Founder & AI Consultant at ITQAN AI (Paris), an index-listed current role - i.e. his public activity has moved from institutional quant/energy trading toward founding an AI consultancy.2026
• Won a bronze medal for Algeria at IMO 2017 scoring 17 points (188th, 69.5%); two years earlier at IMO 2015 he scored 10 points (337th of 577, honourable mention) - a clear upward trajectory across his olympiad appearances.Jul 2017
• Has taught Algebra, Number Theory and Geometry as an instructor at AwesomeMath (Cornell University) since 2018 - roughly seven years running, making olympiad coaching a long-running parallel thread to his quantitative work.2018
• Education: Master's in General Engineering at CentraleSupelec (2019-2023) after two years of MPSI-MP* at Lycee Louis-le-Grand (2017-2019) - the classic French prepa-to-grande-ecole track that also produced his olympiad training years.
• Cross-source read: the career sequence (Safran ML 2021-22 -> Green Technologie Python 2022 -> Boussard & Gavaudan quant research 2023 -> Ezpada power quant trading 2024-25 -> cMatter AI 2025-26 -> founding ITQAN AI 2026) alternates between applied ML/scientific computing and quantitative finance, and each quant stint was short (about a year), which reads as exploration across short-horizon quantitative domains rather than a single long institutional track.
• Prior applied-ML thread: Machine Learning Engineer at Safran (Le Haillan, France, 2021-2022) building models for additive-manufacturing property prediction, and AI Engineer at cMatter (Abu Dhabi, 2025-2026) doing BMS data forecasting/anomaly detection for smart buildings - a scientific-computing/ML throughline between the finance roles.
• Also competed at IMO 2016 for Algeria, scoring 10 points (no medal) - so his IMO run was 2015, 2016 and 2017, one year more than the two the brief named.Jul 2016
• Languages listed on LinkedIn: English, Spanish, French and Arabic - consistent with an Algeria-born, France-trained, internationally-mobile profile (Paris, London, Prague, Abu Dhabi).