James Bang

Quantitative Trader based in London at Tower Research Capital, where he maintains his team's low-frequency (LF) modelling pipeline (signal generation, feature engineering, model fitting). Graduated from the University of Cambridge (2020-2024) in the Mathematical Tripos.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. His own website (primary, self-published) states "I'm currently a Quantitative Trader based in London" maintaining his team's low-frequency modelling pipeline (signal generation, feature engineering, model fitting); identity is supported because the same site cross-links LinkedIn /in/jamesbang1233 and GitHub jamesbang1233 and the IMO record matches. Employer classification: Tower Research Capital, the employer named in the LinkedIn index, is a proprietary quantitative/high-frequency trading firm (its own site: "world's best quantitative trading teams"), so it genuinely operates in quantitative finance. Caveat: the Tower Research Capital employer attribution and the Akuna Capital Software Developer internship (Dec 2022-Feb 2023) are index-only (LinkedIn) and are not independently confirmed by a primary source; only the self-published 'Quantitative Trader' role and the identity are primary-sourced.2026
• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. His own website (primary, self-published) states "I'm currently a Quantitative Trader based in London" maintaining his team's low-frequency modelling pipeline (signal generation, feature engineering, model fitting); identity is supported because the same site cross-links LinkedIn /in/jamesbang1233 and GitHub jamesbang1233 and the IMO record matches. Employer classification: Tower Research Capital, the employer named in the LinkedIn index, is a proprietary quantitative/high-frequency trading firm (its own site: "world's best quantitative trading teams"), so it genuinely operates in quantitative finance. Caveat: the Tower Research Capital employer attribution and the Akuna Capital Software Developer internship (Dec 2022-Feb 2023) are index-only (LinkedIn) and are not independently confirmed by a primary source; only the self-published 'Quantitative Trader' role and the identity are primary-sourced.
• Current role (LinkedIn enrichment, index-only): Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital, London, from 2024; maintains the team's low-frequency modelling pipeline (signal generation, feature engineering, model fitting).Jul 2024
• Olympiad record (self-published site + IMO official participant page id=27529): represented Australia at IMO 2017 (Rio, Bronze) and IMO 2019 (Silver).Jul 2019
• Verified identity: LinkedIn /in/jamesbang1233 headline 'amateur cyclist', London-based Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital; personal site jb2358.user.srcf.net and GitHub jamesbang1233 confirm same person via cross-links.
• Akuna Capital internship Dec 2022-Feb 2023 as Software Developer in the Trader Scripting Group, Sydney - Akuna is an options market maker, so this is a genuine quant-finance internship (a software, not trading, seat).Dec 2022
• Akuna Capital internship was a software seat (Trader Scripting Group), not a trading seat - Akuna is an options market maker, so the firm is quant finance but the role itself was software development; the role and its dates are index-only.Dec 2022
• Tower Research Capital is a proprietary high-frequency/low-latency trading firm (market maker) - confirms the employer operates in quantitative trading, not merely carrying 'quant' in its name.
• Education: University of Cambridge Mathematical Tripos 2020-2024 (Masters year Rank 6 of 300, per personal site); prior Bachelor of Science/Master of Mathematical Sciences, University of Sydney 2020-2021; Baulkham Hills High School (ATAR 99.40).2024
• Timeline read: he was at Cambridge 2020-2024 and took the Tower Research Capital Quantitative Trader role from 2024, so the quant-finance internships (Akuna software, AWS EC2 software, VetCT AI research, Huawei ATP research) all fall inside the undergraduate years - the only trading-desk role on record is the post-graduation one.2024
• Contact/handles are self-published on his site: SRCF email [contact omitted], LinkedIn, GitHub, Facebook (james.bang.3517) and Codeforces (jamesbang) - no X/Twitter account is listed, so twitter is absent rather than unknown.2026
• Employer-classification sweep: AWS EC2 (big-tech SWE) and Huawei's Automated Theorem Proving group (industrial research) are not quantitative-finance employers; only Tower Research Capital (proprietary trading) and Akuna Capital (options market maker) qualify, and both are named only in index data.2026