Jeremy Yip

Junior doctor and quantitative trader with an interest in medical informatics, psychiatry and extensive background in problem solving mathematics

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• Quant employment verification - CONFIRMED. Jeremy Yip holds a current, substantive quantitative-finance role: Senior Quantitative Trader at Akuna Capital (2025-), with prior Akuna roles Quantitative Trader (2023-2025) and Junior Quantitative Trader (2022-2023, Sydney), plus a Summer Intern stint at Jane Street (2016-2017, Hong Kong). Employer classification: Akuna Capital's own site states it is 'a leading proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making', so the roles are genuinely quantitative trading/market-making, not merely a company with 'quant' in its name. Identity support: the role history sits on one LinkedIn profile (index record) that also carries the 2015 IMO / Australian Maths Trust thread, matching the IMO 2015 Australia contestant of the same name; the two independent identity anchors (olympiad + employer) align. Caveat: the employment dates and titles themselves rest on a LinkedIn-derived index record, not an independently published primary source.Sep 17, 2026
• Medicine-to-markets switch: after qualifying as a doctor at Monash and working as a junior medical officer at The Alfred (2021-2022), Yip moved to Akuna Capital in 2022 - a career path that pairs an olympiad-grade maths background with a clinical degree, unusual among quantitative traders.Sep 17, 2026
• Identity is supported by the convergence of two independent anchors: the IMO 2015 Australia silver medallist named Jeremy Yip and a LinkedIn profile of the same name whose history includes IMO-team work at the Australian Maths Trust plus the Akuna trading roles. No primary source (e.g. an Akuna team page or press release) independently names him, so the LinkedIn/index-derived employment record remains aggregator-sourced.Sep 17, 2026
• Quant trading career ladder at Akuna Capital: Junior Quantitative Trader (2022-2023, Sydney) -> Quantitative Trader (2023-2025, Sydney) -> Senior Quantitative Trader (2025-), i.e. roughly two years per step and a Sydney (not Chicago/HQ) base for the early roles.Jul 1, 2025
• Jane Street Summer Intern (Hong Kong, 2016-2017), described as a 'hands-on quantitative trading internship utilising mathematical reasoning, statistical analysis and communication skills' - an actual internship at a quantitative trading firm, distinct from competitions or insight days.Feb 1, 2017
• Represented Australia at the 56th International Mathematical Olympiad (Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 2015) and won a silver medal, ranked 58th with 23 points (P1 7, P2 6, P3 1, P4 7, P5 2, P6 0) - independently confirmed by IMO official records, not the LinkedIn index.Jul 16, 2015
• Alongside his trading role he has continued marking and mentoring for the Australian Maths Trust's Olympiad program since 2015 ('Olympiad-level mathematics marking and mentoring, working with the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) team for Australia') - a sustained 11-year involvement with Australia's olympiad pipeline.Sep 17, 2026
• Timeline read: Yip sat the IMO in July 2015 (end of high school), started the Monash MD/BMedSc in 2016, and held a Jane Street summer internship in Hong Kong in Nov 2016-Feb 2017 - i.e. he engaged quantitative trading during the first year of a six-year medical degree, years before joining Akuna as a junior trader in 2022.Sep 17, 2026
• Employer Akuna Capital self-describes as 'a leading proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making' (from its own site), confirming the firm operates in quantitative trading/market making rather than being an unrelated company.Nov 24, 2025
• Education: Monash University, Doctor of Medicine and Bachelor of Medical Science (MD BMedSc), High Distinction, 2016-2020; secondary at Trinity Grammar School, Kew (2008-2015), VCE Baccalaureate. Completing both degrees meant finishing high school (2015) and graduating medicine (2020) with no gap year, per the index dates.Sep 17, 2026
• Both quantitative-finance employers on the record (Jane Street internship, then Akuna Capital) are established proprietary trading firms, and Akuna's Sydney desk is where his early trading roles sat even though Akuna is headquartered in Chicago - consistent with its Sydney quant-trading office rather than a non-trading affiliate.Sep 17, 2026
• Medical role: Junior Medical Officer / Medical Doctor at Alfred Health, Melbourne (2021-2022), with rotations in acute adult inpatient care at The Alfred Hospital, a major Victorian trauma centre.Dec 31, 2022