Ivan Bazhov

Ivan Bazhov is a quantitative researcher/developer working on high-frequency trading, based in Amsterdam. His LinkedIn headline reads 'HFT Quant | PhD in math | Gold medal IMO'. Since September 2024 he has been a Research Developer at Headlands Technologies LLC, a global quantitative proprietary trading firm. Before that he was Lead Quantitative Researcher at NXT Capital BV (2021-2023, Amsterdam, developing proprietary HFT strategies) and Quantitative Researcher at Nomura in London (2018-2020, modelling exotic interest-rate products). He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), studied mathematics at the University of Geneva, and earned a master's at Lomonosov Moscow State University; he represented the Russian Federation at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2008, winning a gold medal.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Ivan Bazhov (LinkedIn ivan-bazhov-4a299ba9; IMO 2008 gold, Russian Federation, id 17488) has documented quantitative-finance employment: Quantitative Researcher at Nomura, London (01/2018-12/2020, front-office Exotic Interest Rates modelling in C++/Python; employer = investment bank, quant is front-office model development, not market-making); Lead Quantitative Researcher at NXT Capital BV, Amsterdam (02/2021-08/2024; NXT Capital BV is the Netherlands arm of Pinely, a proprietary algorithmic/quantitative trading group, nxttraders.nl -> Pinely 'Proprietary Trading'; work = proprietary HFT strategy research on original exchange data; employer = algorithmic trading firm, NOT the unrelated Chicago direct lender NXT Capital nxtcapital.com); and Research Developer at Headlands Technologies LLC (headlandstech.com), a global quantitative proprietary trading firm. The Nomura and NXT tenures and dates are corroborated by an independent primary source, FINRA BrokerCheck (CRD# 8008287, individual_8008287.pdf). The current Headlands role is index/LinkedIn-dated (from ~2024-09) with secondary corroboration from theorg.com; no independent primary source dates its start. These are actual roles, not insight days, camps, scholarships, or incoming offers.Sep 1, 2024
• Employer classification: Headlands Technologies LLC (headlandstech.com) is a Chicago-based global quantitative proprietary trading firm (self-described 'A quantitative trading firm at the forefront of finance & technology'; Wikipedia: 'American quantitative proprietary trading firm', founded July 2009); his Research Developer role sits in its Research & Development team alongside other Research Developers.Jan 1, 2026
• FINRA BrokerCheck (CRD# 8008287, filed via Headlands Technologies Securities, LLC) independently confirms the employment timeline: Nomura Quantitative Researcher 01/2018-12/2020, then NXT Capital BV Quantitative Researcher 02/2021-08/2024 — the only non-LinkedIn primary source that dates both tenures.Jan 1, 2026
• Both tenures are genuine quantitative-finance employment, not student programs: Nomura = front-office derivatives quant modelling at an investment bank; NXT Capital BV = proprietary HFT/algorithmic trading (Pinely group); Headlands = quantitative proprietary trading research. No insight-day, camp, scholarship or incoming-offer items were found mislabeled as roles.Jan 1, 2026
• NXT Capital BV is the Netherlands arm of Pinely, a proprietary algorithmic trading group (the nxttraders.nl site redirects to Pinely 'Proprietary Trading'; NXT Capital BV is registered in Amsterdam, KvK 75312026, incorporated 2019) — an actual quant/algorithmic trading employer, not a generic 'capital' lender; the similarly named Chicago NXT Capital (nxtcapital.com) is an unrelated direct lender.Jan 1, 2019
• His CV gives direct contact details: e-mail [contact omitted] and phone +7 916 340 04 83 (Russian mobile), listed at a Carouge, Switzerland address — his own document, not an inferred pattern.Jan 1, 2015
• LinkedIn index dates conflict with FINRA on the Headlands start: the index shows Research Developer '2024- · 2 yrs' (i.e. from ~2024-09) while FINRA records NXT ending 08/2024, consistent with a ~Sept 2024 transition. Treat the current Headlands role as index-dated only; no independent primary source dates the start.Sep 1, 2024
• At NXT Capital BV (2021-2023, Amsterdam) he was Lead Quantitative Researcher developing proprietary HFT strategies for securities traded worldwide, researching signals/model improvements from original exchange data.Sep 1, 2023
• Nomura role (2018-2020, London) was Quantitative Researcher on Exotic Interest Rates: improving models for Swaption, Bermudan Swaption and FVA, developing the Nomura analytics library in modern C++ and Python, and working on the 'Libor replacement project' — a bank quant (front-office modelling) role, not trading/market-making.Dec 1, 2020
• Education timeline from his own CV: born 25 September 1991 (USSR); Gymnasium 9, Yekaterinburg (1998-2008); Moscow State University (2008-2013, Specialist/MSc in Mathematics, thesis 'Additive structures on projective hypersurfaces of degree 3', advisor I. Arzhantsev); in parallel Independent Moscow University (2008-2013, thesis 'On automorphisms of a Bergman fan', advisor G. Mikhalkin); University of Geneva (2013-2014); PhD in Mathematics, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie / Paris VI (2014-2017).Jan 1, 2017
• Olympiad record: gold medal at IMO 2008 representing the Russian Federation (Madrid; 31/42 points, rank 43, 92.2%) and gold at the Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2008 (Harbin); later First Prize at the International Mathematics Competition for University Students (Blagoevgrad, 2010).Jul 1, 2008
• Headlands' Amsterdam office (Strawinskylaan) is described as focused on software development, trading operations and research; Bazhov's Research Developer title matches that research profile — corroborating the current role beyond LinkedIn alone.Dec 1, 2024