Jerry Mao

MIT-educated software engineer and competitive programmer from Melbourne, Australia. Four-time IOI medallist representing Australia (bronze 2015, silver 2016, gold 2017, silver 2018) and a member of the MIT team that won the 45th ICPC World Finals (2022). Holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics (2023) and an MEng in EECS / Artificial Intelligence (2024) from MIT, GPA 5.0/5.0. Software/algorithm internships at Optiver (2020-2021) and QuantCo (2021), algorithm developer internships at Hudson River Trading (2022, 2023), and a full-time Algorithm Developer role at Hudson River Trading (New York) from 2024.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED - Jerry Mao holds documented software/algorithm roles at quantitative trading firms. Hudson River Trading self-describes as 'a multi-asset class quantitative trading firm' and his LinkedIn/resume list a full-time Algorithm Developer role there from 2024 plus Algorithm Developer Intern stints (May-Aug 2022 New York; 2023 London). Optiver is a proprietary trading firm/market maker and his resume lists Software Developer Intern there (Dec 2020-Jan 2021). QuantCo ('Quant' in the name) is a data-science/economics firm, not a trading firm, so it does NOT count as quant-finance employment. Identity is supported (LinkedIn matches the Australian IOI competitor on school, country and Olympiad record).2026
• Algorithm Developer at Hudson River Trading (New York) from 2024; HRT is a quantitative trading firm. Source is his LinkedIn profile (index-derived) - no independent press release confirms the current role, so treat the employment as index-sourced.2024
• Identity check: the LinkedIn profile jerry-mao (MIT, Caulfield Grammar, HRT, Optiver) matches the Australian IOI competitor Jerry Mao at stats.ioinformatics.org/people/5523 on country, school and Olympiad record, and his resume cross-links the same LinkedIn, website and GitHub. Several unrelated 'Jerry Mao' profiles exist (e.g. a Cornell student, an NYU lecturer) but none match this record.2026
• Algorithm Developer Intern at HRT, May-Aug 2022 (New York): the resume states he modelled high-frequency cryptocurrency prices to build automatic trading algorithms 'deployed to live markets', empirically verified through backtests - a direct trading-strategy role, not a school program.May 2022
• Competed for Australia at four consecutive IOI editions: bronze 2015 (92nd), silver 2016 (33rd), gold 2017 (22nd), silver 2018 (31st) - a four-medal record across 2015-2018.Sep 2018
• Public contact email [contact omitted], listed on his own resume and consistent with his personal domain - a direct reachability signal.2023
• Member of the MIT team that won the 45th ICPC World Finals (result publicised Nov 2022); resume additionally notes 1st place in NADC and 2nd in NAC with a perfect NENA score.Nov 2022
• Software Developer Intern at Optiver Asia Pacific (Sydney), Dec 2020-Jan 2021: resume describes researching machine-learning algorithms for derivatives trading with backtests, and advising parameter design in a commodities pricing system - a trading-firm engineering internship.Dec 2020
• MIT MEng in EECS (Artificial Intelligence), 2023-2024, and BS in Computer Science and Mathematics, 2019-2023, both at GPA 5.0/5.0; coursework spanned machine learning, advanced algorithms and computational cognitive science.2024
• Second Algorithm Developer Intern stint at HRT in 2023 (London) appears on LinkedIn but not on his own 2023 resume, so the role is index-only evidence and the second HRT internship was added after the resume was written.2023
• Co-author of HRT AI Labs' 2022 intern spotlight 'Transformers for market data', applying attention-based neural networks to securities pricing data - links his academic ML work to market-data modelling.2022
• Software Engineer Intern at QuantCo (Karlsruhe, Germany), Jun-Aug 2021: contributed parallelism options to the open-source BLIS linear-algebra framework (up to ~40% speedup on narrow matrices). QuantCo is a data-science/engineering firm that turns statistical learning into enterprise products, not a trading firm.Jun 2021