Kyriakos Tsourekas

Kyriakos Tsourekas is a Greek mathematics competitor and AI undergraduate. He won a gold medal at the 65th International Mathematical Olympiad (2024) representing Greece while at The Moraitis School, and a silver medal at the 66th IMO (2025), first in the Greek delegation. He is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in AI Engineering at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence). Per his LinkedIn profile he works as a Math Expert at Mercor (AI data/training), is a co-founder of MathFrames (AI math tutorials), and lists a past Quantitative Researcher role at AlphaEvo co-authoring an LLM-guided trading-signal framework with MBZUAI's quant team.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only candidate role is 'Quantitative Researcher at AlphaEvo' (2026), recorded solely on his own LinkedIn profile (an index/self-reported source) and not corroborated by any company-issued record; the AlphaEvo domain (alphaevoe.com) does not resolve and AlphaEvo appears as the name of a research framework/project (GitHub repo Zangir/AlphaEvo and a NeurIPS 2026 paper under review) rather than an operating quantitative investment, trading, market-making, or hedge-fund employer, so the entity cannot be classified as a quant-finance firm. External evidence (the paper co-authorship on Salem Lahlou's publications page and the verifAI repo credit) establishes genuine quantitative-trading-signal research work, but does not establish an employment or internship relationship with a quant firm; the student open-source credit is not employment. Identity is supported (IMO 2024/2025, Moraitis School, MBZUAI). Conclusion retained as UNRESOLVED pending a verifiable employer.2026
• Served as Quantitative Researcher at AlphaEvo in 2026, co-authoring an LLM-guided regime-aware framework for trading-signal discovery with MBZUAI's quant team (reported 1.89 Sharpe on S&P 500). This is quant-finance research work recorded on his own LinkedIn; the AlphaEvo employer entity could not be independently verified as an operating quant firm (alphaevoe.com does not resolve).2026
• Co-authored the AlphaEvo paper 'LLM-Seeded Evolutionary Discovery of Robust Quantitative Trading Signals', listed on MBZUAI professor Salem Lahlou's publications page as a NeurIPS 2026 submission with co-authors Temiko Machavariani, Matvei Rotte, Luka Tsulaia, Iskhak Tazhibaev, Munachiso Samuel Nwadike, Salem Lahlou, Prashant Kumar Jamwal, Kentaro Inui, Martin Takac and Zangir Iklassov. An external third-party page independently lists him as an author of the quantitative trading-signal research, corroborating the substance of his self-reported AlphaEvo role even though the employer entity itself is unverified.2026
• Won the silver medal at the 66th IMO (2025) and was first in the Greek delegation, the second consecutive year leading the Greek team.Jul 23, 2025
• Won the gold medal at the 65th International Mathematical Olympiad (2024) representing Greece while a student at The Moraitis School.Jul 31, 2024
• Currently Math Expert at Mercor, doing AI model training/data in mathematics.Jun 2025
• Mathematics Specialist at Mercor Software Development: logged 700+ hours and authored 20+, solved 15+, and reviewed 70+ IMO-level problems; promoted to team-leader after four months.Jun 2025
• Co-Founder of MathFrames, an AI-based math tutorial platform he built with his team.Jun 2025
• An 'AlphaEvo' GitHub repository (Zangir/AlphaEvo) describes an LLM-Seeded Evolutionary Discovery framework for robust quantitative trading signals, a NeurIPS 2026 submission; it matches the AlphaEvo quant-research work described on his LinkedIn, though his authorship of the repo is not directly established.2026
• The AlphaEvo GitHub repository (Zangir/AlphaEvo) hosts the 'LLM-Seeded Evolutionary Discovery of Robust Quantitative Trading Signals' framework, matching the quant-research work described on his LinkedIn; the repo owner is Zangir Iklassov, not Tsourekas, so his authorship of the code is not directly established by the repo alone.2026
• Publicly credited as a contributing student on the verifAI project ('Client-side AI-text & citation checker for arXiv'), whose repo describes it as 'Built by Prof. Zangir Iklassov and Kyriakos Tsourekas (student)' - evidence of open-source work with an MBZUAI faculty member alongside the AlphaEvo paper.2026
• Studying for a Bachelor of Science in AI Engineering at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence); LinkedIn headline references 'MBZUAI 2029'.Sep 2025