Konstantin Garov

Currently doing a master's in Maths and Computer Science. Quantitatively-focused, with interests in modelling and ML, in general.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Reported roles are Trading Intern at Jane Street (Jun-Sep 2021) and Quantitative Strategist at Rothesay (Sep 2022-Jan 2023), both documented in the configured people index and in the RocketReach aggregator (LinkedIn-derived); identity is supported by IMO-official (Bulgaria 2017 & 2018 silver), arXiv 2501.08821 with UCSD's Kamalika Chaudhuri, and the matching LinkedIn profile. Both are actual work/internships, not student programs, insight days, camps or offers. Employer classification: Jane Street is a proprietary trading firm (quantitative finance); Rothesay is a UK bulk-annuity pension insurer whose investment function runs quantitative strategies. Caveat: no primary source from Jane Street or Rothesay, and no dated primary document, confirms these roles; the evidence is index/aggregator-derived (LinkedIn-sourced) and RocketReach even mislabels Rothesay as 'Rothesay House Inn', so the roles are treated as documented but NOT independently primary-source-confirmed.Jan 1, 2025
• Identity is anchored at the IMO: contestant 27623 represented Bulgaria in 2017 (silver, 19 pts, rank 115) and 2018 (silver, 29 pts, rank 61) - the same years as the task's stated Olympiad identity.Jul 1, 2018
• Co-authored 'A Closer Look at the Learnability of Out-of-Distribution (OOD) Detection' (arXiv:2501.08821, Jan 2025) with Kamalika Chaudhuri of UC San Diego, placing him in a US academic ML research group rather than a finance seat as of 2025.Jan 15, 2025
• Sourcing caveat: the RocketReach profile dates the two roles (2021; 2022-2023) but misattributes the employer as 'Rothesay House Inn' and is a LinkedIn-derived aggregator - so neither it nor the people index is an independent primary-source confirmation.Jan 1, 2025
• In 2012, aged about 14, was named the world's best teen mathematician at the International Mathematics Competition in Taiwan, while a student at the Mathematical High School in Burgas - a decade of elite competition mathematics predating the IMO appearances.Aug 1, 2012
• Education: Master of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Oxford; PhD in Computer Science, UC San Diego (index/LinkedIn-derived).Jan 1, 2025
• Employer classification check: Jane Street is a proprietary trading firm (verified via its own careers site listing Quantitative Trader Internship, London), squarely a quantitative-finance employer.Jan 1, 2025
• Employer classification check: Rothesay is a UK bulk-annuity pension insurer; its careers page advertises 'Quantitative Strategist' graduate and internship programmes, so it does run a quantitative investment function, though it is an insurer/asset manager rather than a hedge fund.Jan 1, 2024
• Named as a gold medallist (with Atanas Dinev) at the Zhautykov Olympiad 2018 in a Bulgarian olympiad-press post, corroborating the competitive-mathematics profile.Jan 1, 2018
• The Oxford 'St John's College' newsletters for 2019 and 2021 contain the surname 'Garov', consistent with undergraduate study at St John's College, Oxford; the newsletters are secondary and do not confirm his role beyond the name match.Jan 1, 2021
• Based in Burgas, Bulgaria (LinkedIn/index-recorded location); a second Bulgarian academic named Kostadin Garov (AI researcher and ICLR/arXiv author) is a distinct person and was excluded from this profile.Jan 1, 2024