Ioana-Maria Tamas

Ioana-Maria Tamas is a Romania-born computer scientist and algorithm engineer at Hudson River Trading, a New York quantitative trading firm she joined in December 2020. She was a silver medalist for Romania at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2012 and at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad 2012, and is a competitive-programming competitor (Codeforces 'Ioana', Topcoder 'timics') who reached the ACM-ICPC World Finals 2017 with Cornell. She holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Southampton and an M.Eng in Computer Science from Cornell University (2017). Before HRT she worked as a software engineer at Quora (2017-2020) and interned at Google, Twitter and Facebook.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Her LinkedIn profile (via the person index) and her own public Quora profile ('Algo Engineer at Hudson River Trading 2020-present') both state she has held the Algorithm Engineer role at Hudson River Trading since Dec 2020; HRT is classified as a quantitative trading firm ('American quantitative trading firm', Wikipedia), so this is a genuine quantitative-finance role, not a student program. Identity is corroborated by matching education (Cornell M.Eng CS, ICHB Bucharest) and the IMO 2012 Romania silver medal. Index claim labeled as index-derived.Dec 1, 2020
• Won a silver medal for Romania at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2012 (Mar del Plata, Argentina) with 21 points (7,7,0,7,0,0), ranked 112th.Jul 1, 2012
• Synthesis: her trajectory is unusually consistent - mathematics olympiad medals (IMO/EGMO) and ICPC world finals in school, FAANG software internships each summer as an undergrad, then Quora SWE, then a move into algorithmic trading at HRT in Dec 2020 - with every stage tied to computer science rather than a pivot into finance.Dec 1, 2020
• Name-disambiguation: a different 'Ioana-Maria Tamas' is a UNESCO Culture staffer who appears on UNESCO editorial boards and a 2026 artistic-freedom webinar; that public figure shares only the name and is not the subject of this profile.Feb 1, 2022
• Won a silver medal for Romania at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad 2012 (27 points), competing as ROU4.Apr 1, 2012
• Competed in the ACM-ICPC World Finals 2017 (24 May 2017), placing 62nd with Cornell University team 'Cornell 1' alongside Dragos-Florian Ristache and Matthew Gharrity.May 24, 2017
• Earned a Cornell University M.Eng in Computer Science (2016-2017); her master's project was 'Resource-Coupled Evolutionary Games' under advisor David Bindel.Jan 1, 2017
• Worked as a Software Engineer at Quora in Mountain View, California, 2017-2020, between her Cornell M.Eng and joining HRT.Jan 1, 2017
• Uses the competitive-programming handles 'Ioana' on Codeforces and 'timics' on Topcoder, both cross-referenced from the competitive-programming hall of fame profile.Jan 1, 2017
• Completed a BSc in Computer Science at the University of Southampton (2013-2016).Jan 1, 2016
• Held a software engineering internship at Google (Mountain View) in 2016.Jan 1, 2016
• Attended the International Computer High School of Bucharest (ICHB) 2008-2012; the school's success page lists her IMO 2012 silver alongside other ICHB medalists.Jan 1, 2012