Ivan-Aleksandar Mavrov

Ivan-Aleksandar Mavrov is a PhD student in Management Science and Engineering (Operations Research) at Stanford University, admitted Autumn 2023. A Bulgarian national from Sofia, he earned a BS in Economics and Computation and Mathematics at Duke University (2019-2023), where he was also an undergraduate teaching assistant. His research sits at the intersection of algorithms, game theory and economics - market design, mechanism design and fair multiwinner elections - and he names quantitative finance among his core interests. He represented Bulgaria at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2018, winning a silver medal (rank 49, 30 points).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Ivan-Aleksandar Mavrov held a Quantitative Trading Intern role at Citadel Securities, June-August 2022. Citadel Securities is a genuine quantitative market maker (a wholesale market maker in equities, options, futures and fixed income) - the employer classification is confirmed as quantitative trading/market-making. The role is corroborated by an aggregated professional profile (RocketReach) that lists 'Quantitative Trading Intern @ Citadel Securities, 2022-2022' alongside his Stanford PhD and Duke education, and the identity matches the linkedin.com/in/ivan-aleksandar-mavrov-588107195 record and the Duke-to-Stanford PhD trajectory. Caveat: the employment detail comes from a professional-data aggregator, not an independent primary source, so the type-level identity support is strong while the role itself rests on a single index-class source; treat as CONFIRMED on a supported identity with an actual internship, but note the single-source provenance.Jun 2022
• Incoming MS&E PhD student at Stanford (admitted Autumn 2023); Stanford profile lists him at ivanmavrov / imavrov with department Economics/Graduate.Sep 2023
• Employer classification check: Citadel Securities is an actual quantitative market maker; the name alone was not treated as sufficient, and the firm's market-making/quantitative-trading business is what classifies the role as quantitative finance.2022
• IMO 2018, representing Bulgaria: silver medal, rank 49 overall (91.9%), total 30 points (7,7,0,7,7,2).Jul 2018
• First-author of 'Fair Multiwinner Elections with Allocation Constraints' (arXiv 2305.02868, May 2023; EC 2023), with Kamesh Munagala and Yiheng Shen - work at the game theory / market design intersection he names as his research interest.May 4, 2023
• Summer Research Intern at Duke University Management (Asset) Company, 2021 - a Duke-affiliated asset management entity, not a hedge fund; listed as an internship (RocketReach index).2021
• Names quantitative finance, game theory, mechanism design and market design as core interests; frames his research around designing efficient markets and institutions.Sep 26, 2023
• Undergraduate education: Duke University, BS in Economics and Computation, and Mathematics (via Stanford spotlight); resided in Durham, North Carolina before moving to Stanford.Sep 26, 2023
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at Duke University, 2020-2023, alongside his BS studies.2020
• Also a JBMO 2015 participant and KIMC 2014 individual Gold (Bulgaria team B) - a long competitive-mathematics record predating the IMO medal.2014
• Has a Kaggle account (ivanaleksandarmavrov), joined ~2025, no bio or public activity - minimal footprint.2025