JÁJosé Ángel Cázares Torres
San Francisco, California, United States · engineerJosé Ángel Cázares Torres is a software engineer from Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico, who competed for Mexico at the International Olympiad in Informatics from 2018 to 2021 (bronze medal, 2020). He studied Computer Science and Molecular Biology at MIT, graduating in 2025, did undergraduate research in the Kellis (CSAIL), Uhler/Schmidt Center, and MIT Economics labs, interned at Microsoft (2023) and — per the LinkedIn index — at Citadel Securities (2024), and in 2025 joined OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff on ChatGPT Atlas. He previously co-founded and served as CTO of the Torreón customer-experience startup Intello Ai in 2021.
- QUANT EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION: UNRESOLVED. A 2024 Software Engineer Internship at Citadel Securities (Options Engineering, New York) is reported by the LinkedIn index only and could not be independently confirmed on a primary source in this run; the role itself would qualify as a quant-trading-firm internship (Citadel Securities is a market maker), but the identity is corroborated only by continuity of the same person's MIT/OpenAI/IOI footprint.2024
Software Engineer, ChatGPT Atlas
Undergraduate Researcher at the Uhler Lab, researching novel methods of using single cell Perturb-seq data. Gave a talk about my research at the 2025 MIT Biology Undergraduate Rese
Options Engineering.
Undergraduate Researcher at the Kellis Lab, researching cutting edge chromatin folding prediction models using scRNA-seq data.
Software Engineer intern on the Partner Analytics team.
Under the supervision of Esther Duflo and David Atkin, I researched the impact of multinational corporations on developing economies, measuring their impact through various metrics
I co-started a company focused on bettering the online costumer experience, tailored towards local companies who cannot afford a high online maintenance budget, using Google Dialog
Competition record
Mexico · IOI