László Miklós Lovász

Hungarian mathematician and Olympiad gold medallist (IMO 2008 gold, rank 4; IMO 2007 silver). Earned a BSc in Mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University, a Master's at the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Mathematics at MIT advised by Jacob Fox. Subsequently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor in Applied Mathematics at MIT and an NSF Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCLA. Two research internships at Microsoft (Microsoft Research New England, summers 2015 and 2016). Listed on LinkedIn as a Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital in Greater Boston (index/LinkedIn-sourced).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Laszlo Miklos Lovasz holds a quantitative finance role: his LinkedIn profile and a RocketReach contact record both list him as Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital, with LinkedIn giving a start of 2020; the identity is corroborated by matching open-source academic records (the Simons Institute profile and MIT-affiliated scholar pages). Tower Research Capital is genuinely a quantitative finance firm -- it is a proprietary high-frequency/algorithmic trading firm whose own site describes 'the world's best quantitative traders and systematic portfolio managers' building and deploying trading strategies, so it is not merely a company whose name contains 'quant'. Caveat: the employment claim itself remains index/LinkedIn/RocketReach-sourced; no primary Tower Research Capital document or independent press names him, so the role is not independently primary-source confirmed, only an index- and aggregator-backed claim with a supported identity.Sep 17, 2026
• Identity confirmed: the Hungarian IMO competitor Laszlo Miklos Lovasz (silver 2007, gold 2008) matches the mathematician on the LinkedIn profile supplied by the caller -- both show MIT PhD mathematics, Cambridge masters, Eotvos Lorand BSc, and the same UCLA/MIT academic roles, so this is one person and not a namesake.Jul 1, 2008
• Career timeline as listed on the LinkedIn profile (index/LinkedIn-sourced, not independently confirmed): Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital (current); NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructor in Applied Mathematics at MIT; NSF Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCLA Mathematics; two Research Intern roles at Microsoft.Sep 17, 2026
• Quant employment verification pending: the Tower Research Capital 'Quantitative Trader' role is currently an index/LinkedIn-only claim; Tower Research Capital is a proprietary high-frequency trading firm and does operate in quantitative finance, but a primary or independent source corroborating this individual's role there has not yet been located.Sep 17, 2026
• IMO results (primary source imo-official.org): 2008 rank 4/535, gold medal, 39 points; 2007 rank 110/520, silver medal, 21 points, representing Hungary.Jul 1, 2008
• Tower Research Capital (tower-research.com) is a proprietary quantitative/high-frequency trading firm that describes giving 'quantitative traders and systematic portfolio managers' a platform to research, build and deploy trading strategies, confirming the employer operates in quantitative trading specifically rather than being a name-only 'quant' company.Jan 7, 2026
• Simons Institute profile (Spring 2017, Pseudorandomness program) states he was a fifth-year MIT mathematics PhD student advised by Jacob Fox, research in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics and limits of graph sequences, and interned at Microsoft Research New England in summers 2015 and 2016.Jan 1, 2017
• Verified Google Scholar profile (Laszlo Miklos Lovasz, MIT, verified mit.edu email) reports 445 total citations, h-index 9, i10-index 9, with research labels Graph Theory and Mathematics.Sep 17, 2026
• Career reading: his only post-PhD employment outside academia is the Tower Research Capital role from 2020, following a two-year NSF postdoc at MIT (2018-2020); the move from a mathematics postdoc directly into quantitative trading suggests the Tower role is his first industry position after a fully academic track, though the index does not state this explicitly.Sep 17, 2026
• ORCID record 0000-0002-6242-5894 (self-asserted, Crossref-verified works) lists a PhD in Mathematics at MIT from 2012 and three journal articles: Fox/Lovasz/Sauermann (JCTA 2018), Lovasz/Zhao (JCTA 2017), and a solo paper (EJC 2016).Nov 1, 2018
• RocketReach lists Laszlo Lovasz as Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital with a tower-research.com work email and a 617 (Boston) phone prefix, an aggregator-level (non-primary) corroboration of the Tower role.Sep 17, 2026
• Recorded conference talk: 'Extremal graph theory and finite forcibility' presented at SiGMa 2017 (video on YouTube), consistent with his PhD-era research focus on graph limits and forcible graphons.Jan 1, 2017