Man Tsung Yeung

Man Tsung Yeung (also known as Benson Yeung; handle benson1029) is a Hong Kong competitive programmer who represented Hong Kong, China at four consecutive International Olympiads in Informatics (2019-2022), winning silver in 2019, 2021 and 2022 and bronze in 2020. He studied Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (Bachelor of Computing, 2022-2026) after attending Pui Ching Middle School. LinkedIn-derived public data lists software-engineering and research roles at Sea and a Software Engineer role at Jump Trading Group, a Chicago-based algorithmic/high-frequency proprietary trading firm; the Jump Trading role is index-only and not independently primary-confirmed. He is a co-author of the Sailor2 multilingual LLM paper (arXiv 2502.12982).

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The target identity is supported (IOI record, GitHub, NUS, LinkedIn all resolve to the same person), and the lead employer Jump Trading Group is independently confirmed as an algorithmic/high-frequency proprietary trading firm. A 'Software Engineer at Jump Trading Group' role appears in LinkedIn-derived enrichment data (index-only, not an independent primary source), consistent with the caller lead of May-Aug 2025; no primary source (company page, resume, press, or a fetchable LinkedIn profile) independently confirms the role, and index data cannot distinguish a full-time role from a summer internship. Employer classification: Jump Trading Group = quantitative/proprietary algorithmic trading (CONFIRMED as employer type); the specific role/employment = not independently confirmed.2025
• Jump Trading Group is a Chicago-headquartered proprietary trading firm specializing in algorithmic and high-frequency trading, which classifies it as a quantitative trading employer rather than a company merely named 'quant'.2026
• Competed for Hong Kong, China at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2019 (silver, rank 46), 2020 (bronze, rank 128), 2021 (silver, rank 63) and 2022 (silver, rank 48), a four-year record placing him among Hong Kong's most consistent IOI medalists.2022
• Studied at Pui Ching Middle School (2016-2022) before reading Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (Bachelor of Computing, 2022-2026), where the school's CS3233 competitive-programming course is sponsored by trading firms including Jump Trading, HRT and Jane Street.2025
• Handles benson1029 on Codeforces and AtCoder tie the competitive-programming identity to the GitHub account 'benson1029' (Yeung Man Tsung) and to the IOI profile, forming a cross-linked identity loop.2022
• Named among the authors of 'Sailor2: Sailing in South-East Asia with Inclusive Multilingual LLMs' (arXiv 2502.12982), consistent with his listed research-intern role at Sea; the paper is a co-authored artifact rather than individual output.Feb 18, 2025
• LinkedIn-derived enrichment lists roles at Sea as both 'Research Intern' and 'Software Engineer' plus a Teaching Assistant role at NUS, indicating a research/engineering trajectory across Sea's LLM work and NUS teaching; these are index-only claims.2025
• An NUS CS3233 blog post identifies benson1029 as a participant/organizer in the NUS CS3233 Final Team Contest mirrors, tying the handle to the university competitive-programming community.2025