Kiho Park

Mathematician (dynamical systems / thermodynamic formalism); PhD in Mathematics, University of Chicago (2015-2021); Postdoctoral Research Fellow at KIAS since Sept 2021; index records also list Quantitative Researcher at IMC Trading, Chicago from 2022.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Independent primary sources establish IMC as a quantitative trading firm: imc.com calls itself 'a global quantitative trading firm' and Wikipedia describes IMC as 'a proprietary trading firm and market maker' (Amsterdam HQ; Chicago office). LinkedIn-derived enrichment places Kiho Park as Quantitative Researcher at IMC Trading, Chicago, 2022-present, and as a past Research Intern at State Street (an asset manager/custody bank). Identity is underpinned by the target's own CV (UC Berkeley 2011-2014; UChicago Math PhD 2015-2021; KIAS postdoc 2021-) and the official IMO page. Caveat: the ROLE assignments rest on the LinkedIn-derived index; IMC's quant-firm classification is independently confirmed but no IMC-owned page naming him was found.Sep 2026
• Index-only role lead: LinkedIn-derived enrichment lists current title Quantitative Researcher at IMC Trading, Chicago, dated 2022-present; no IMC-owned page naming him was located, so the role itself is index-sourced.Sep 2026
• His own CV lists PhD in Mathematics, University of Chicago 2015-2021 (advisor Prof. Amie Wilkinson, thesis 'Subadditive Thermodynamic Formalism for Fiber-bunched Cocycles') and B.A. double major Mathematics and Statistics, UC Berkeley 2011-2014 - the same education chain appears in the index, strengthening identity.Jun 2021
• Index-only role lead: a Research Internship at State Street (San Francisco) appears as past experience in the LinkedIn-derived enrichment; State Street is a custody bank/asset manager so the internship sits in quantitative finance. Not corroborated by a State Street page.Sep 2026
• Employer classification: IMC is a proprietary market maker / high-frequency quantitative trading firm (Amsterdam HQ, Chicago/New York/Sydney offices), so the 'Quant Researcher' title sits in genuine quantitative finance rather than a company whose name merely contains 'quant'.2026
• Namesake caution: a DIFFERENT Kiho Park (kihopark.github.io; LinkedIn kiho-park-8938931b7) is a Harvard statistics postdoc with an SNU BS 2015-2021 and UChicago Statistics PhD 2021-2026 on LLM geometry - easily confused with the target but a different person.2026
• Public contact: CV lists personal email [contact omitted]; KIAS page lists institutional [contact omitted].Jun 2021
• Research mathematician in dynamical systems / thermodynamic formalism: papers in Communications in Mathematical Physics (2020), Advances in Mathematics (2021), Nonlinearity (2020) and Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, several joint with Dong Chen, Lien-Yung Kao, Benjamin Call, Mark Piraino, Tianyu Wang and Clark Butler.2021
• CV awards: Wirszup research fellowship (June 2021), a UChicago departmental fellowship for a graduating PhD student; Lawrence and Josephine Graves Prize (May 2019), a teaching award; a Samsung scholarship listed as declined (declined, not held).Jun 2021
• Confirmed IMO 2010 competitor for Australia: silver medal, 23 points, rank 64 (87.8th percentile) per the official IMO results page; team included Aaron Wan Yau Chong and Sampson Wong.Jul 2010