Kristóf Kornis

Kristóf Kornis is a Budapest-based quantitative finance professional, currently a Vice President at Morgan Stanley. He represented Hungary at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2008 and 2009, winning a bronze medal both years. He studied mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University (BSc, 2009-2014) and completed an MSc in Actuarial and Financial Mathematics at Corvinus University of Budapest (2015-2019). His career spans model risk management and quantitative research internships (Morgan Stanley 2016, WorldQuant 2017), an associate role at MSCI Inc. (2019-2021), and an associate role at BlackRock (2021-2025) in single-security pricing / financial modelling, before joining Morgan Stanley as VP. Note: the detailed role timeline and dates derive from LinkedIn-aggregator enrichment data and are not yet independently confirmed by a primary source.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Separate from the WorldQuant research internship, Kornis has held multiple substantive quantitative-finance roles, not student programs: Associate at MSCI Inc. (2019-2021), Associate at BlackRock (2021-2025) in the Single Security Pricing Financial Modelling Group, and Vice President at Morgan Stanley (2025-), plus a 2016 Morgan Stanley Model Risk Management internship (model validation) and a 2017 WorldQuant LLC quantitative researcher internship (Budapest). MSCI Inc. is a publicly listed provider of indexes, risk and portfolio-analytics products (index/risk-analytics vendor); BlackRock is a global asset manager; Morgan Stanley is a global investment bank; WorldQuant LLC is a quantitative asset manager. The role/dates come from LinkedIn-aggregator enrichment (index-only), so employment is confirmed by that self-described profile data but not by an independent primary source; the student IMO record is a competition, not employment and is not counted.
• Career timeline (LinkedIn-aggregator enrichment, index-only): VP Morgan Stanley 2025-; Associate BlackRock 2021-2025; Associate MSCI Inc. 2019-2021; Quantitative researcher intern WorldQuant LLC 2017; Model Risk Management Intern Morgan Stanley 2016. All Budapest. Dates from the aggregator, not independently confirmed.
• Represented Hungary at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2008 (rank 170, 68.4th percentile, bronze medal, 19 points) and 2009 (rank 148, 74.0th percentile, bronze medal, 23 points).2009
• MSc thesis at Corvinus University of Budapest (2018), 'Kelly Portfólió: kriptovaluták árfolyamain tesztelve' (Kelly Portfolio: tested on cryptocurrency exchange rates), supervised by Zsolt Bihary, Department of Investments and Corporate Finance - an early quantitative-finance crypto application consistent with his later asset-pricing/quant roles.2018
• Education: BSc Mathematics, Eötvös Loránd University (2009-2014); MSc Actuarial and Financial Mathematics, Corvinus University of Budapest (2015-2019); Fazekas Mihály Gimnázium (2002-2009), a Budapest secondary school known for producing Hungarian olympiad competitors.
• The lead GitHub account https://github.com/kkornis could not be verified against this person: the public profile returned no name, company, or bio linking it to Kornis, so it is left unattributed rather than asserted.
• Repeated high placings in Hungarian national math competitions (Kürschák, OKTV, KöMaL) through the late 2000s corroborate the mathematics-competition identity, but no competition result establishes employment.