MCMaksym Chornyi
Brooklyn, New York, United States · engineerMaksym Chornyi is a quantitative developer at Verition Fund Management LLC (New York). He earned a PhD in Mathematics from Northwestern University (research in group theory, amenability theory and random walks) and a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Earlier roles: Quantitative Strategist at KANERAI (2019-2023), Quantitative Research Intern at Jane Street (2019), Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student at Northwestern, cryptanalysis intern at Samsung Electronics in Kyiv, and author/grader for math competitions at Kyiv National University.
- Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Actual roles (not student programs): Jane Street 'Quantitative Research Intern' (summer 2019, ~10 weeks, New York) — Jane Street is a proprietary trading firm; KANERAI 'Quantitative Strategist' (Nov 2019-Aug 2023) — KANERAI is a structured-finance/CLO trading and investment analytics vendor; Verition Fund Management LLC 'Quantitative Developer' (2023-present) — Verition is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund. Identity is supported by the Northwestern alumni page naming 'Maksym Chornyi' with 'Finance (Kanerai NYC)' plus the UkraineWorld listing of him as Jane Street summer intern.2023
- IMO employment verification bridge: the Northwestern Mathematics alumni page lists the PhD graduate 'Maksym Chornyi' (advisor Juschenko, thesis 'Non-elementary Amenable Groups: Kaplansky's Conjecture') with the note 'Finance (Kanerai NYC)' — directly connecting the Ukrainian PhD mathematician to the KANERAI employment lead; the 2010 IMO Ukraine contestant and the 2010-2014 Kyiv bachelor's entry share this timeline, so the olympiad and quant identities are the same person.2019
- Verition Fund Management LLC 'Quantitative Developer' (from Aug 2023): Verition is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded 2008; his role listed on its Quantitative Research team page. Note the current-role signal comes from an index/aggregator listing, not a primary Verition page, and should be re-verified if currency matters.Aug 2023
- Employer classification caution: of the three quant leads, only Verition (hedge fund) and Jane Street (proprietary trading) are themselves quantitative-finance trading firms; KANERAI is a structured-finance analytics software vendor, so its 'Quantitative Strategist' title reflects analytics/engineering work rather than a trading-desk seat.2023
- Jane Street 'Quantitative Research Intern', New York, summer 2019 (Jul-Sep): built a probabilistic predictive model for financial transactions using gradient boosted trees (Pandas, LightGBM). Independently corroborated by the UkraineWorld open letter listing him as 'Summer Research Intern, Jane Street, New York'.Jul 2019
- KANERAI 'Quantitative Strategist' (Nov 2019-Aug 2023): KANERAI is a provider of structured-finance / CLO trading and investment analytics and enterprise data solutions — a fintech analytics vendor for trading/investment, not itself a hedge fund; role was on the development team building real-time CDO analytics for institutional investors.Nov 2019
- PhD in Mathematics, Northwestern University (2014-2019); dissertation 'Non-elementary Amenable Groups: Kaplansky's Conjecture' advised by Kate Juschenko, research in group theory, amenability theory and random walks.2019
- Silver Medal at IMO 2010 representing Ukraine, score 21/42 (7,7,0,7,0,0), rank 106/516; the olympiad identity requested in the brief is confirmed by the IMO official Ukraine 2010 team results.Jul 2010
- Profile is New York-based (Brooklyn) as of the latest indexed record; education moved Kyiv -> Evanston (Northwestern) -> New York, a single identifiable individual rather than a namesake (search surfaced unrelated 'Maksym Chornyi' profiles in Stockholm, Dnipro, London, Phoenix).2023
- Co-authored paper 'On topological full groups of Z^d-actions' with Kate Juschenko and Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics 14 (2020), no. 1, 61-79; a genuine peer-reviewed mathematics publication (not a student note).2020
- Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2010-2014), entered immediately after the 2010 IMO — consistent with his high-school diploma from Kyiv-Pechersk Leader Lyceum (2006-2010).2014
- Served as a Teaching Assistant for Northwestern mathematics courses (2015-2018); a Spring 2016 Math 240 (linear algebra) syllabus lists 'TA: Maksym Chornyi, [contact omitted]' — corroborates his graduate-era academic affiliation from a course page independent of LinkedIn.Mar 2016
Work in the development team of a group aiming to provide secure real-time analytics on collateralized debt obligations (CDO) to 25+ multibillion investors. Led an OOP-based Pytho
Developed a probabilistic predictive model for financial transactions trained on historical data, based on gradient boosted trees using Pandas and LightGBM. Completed an analytic
Led discussion sections for ten different mathematics classes with 150+ undergraduate students in total, communicating high-level material for groups of up to 30 students at a time
Research in group theory, amenability theory and random walks. One joint publication with K. Juschenko and V. Nekrashevych (below).
I was involved in researching and analyzing cryptography-related papers, and then summarizing them in order to contribute to a more general project as a part-time employee. As some
Competition record
Ukraine · IMO