Jakob Bæk Tejs Knudsen

Danish computer scientist. IMO 2014 bronze medalist for Denmark. Earned a BSc in Mathematics and an MSc in Mathematics and PhD in Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, where his PhD was supervised by professor Mikkel Thorup at BARC (Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen), starting 1 January 2018. Research focused on randomized algorithms and hashing. Listed (index-only) as Quantitative Analyst at Alipes ApS, a Copenhagen trading firm, from May 2024.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Jakob Baek Tejs Houen (published name) appears in Alipes' Quantitative Analysis team listing (7 people incl. Peter Holler Langhorn, Guilherme B.), and LinkedIn enrichment lists him as Quantitative Analyst at Alipes ApS from May 2024. Alipes' own site describes it as automating financial markets and trading billions of ticks; thehub.io calls it a proprietary high-frequency trading company founded 2008. Caveat: the team listing is an aggregator/index, not primary-source confirmation; the role rests on index data plus that listing.
• BARC (Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen) announced he started his PhD there on 1 January 2018 supervised by Mikkel Thorup, after a BSc in Mathematics at the University of Copenhagen and four Danish programming championships.Sep 8, 2020
• Alipes is a genuine quantitative-finance employer: its own site describes automating financial markets and trading billions of ticks, and thehub.io calls it a 'proprietary high frequency trading company' that in 2022 entered short-term physical power (energy) trading.
• PhD thesis 'New Results on Hash Functions and Hashing-Based Algorithms' submitted 26 May 2023 under advisor Mikkel Thorup at the University of Copenhagen.May 26, 2023
• IMO official results record a bronze medal for Denmark at IMO 2014 (rank 200, 20 points) and an IMO 2013 appearance for the same contestant.Jul 2014
• Represented Denmark at the International Olympiad in Informatics; stats.ioinformatics.org lists him as a Danish IOI contestant.