Maria Alexa Tudose

Maria-Alexa Tudose is a doctoral (DPhil) student in Computer Science at the University of Oxford (St Edmund Hall), supervised by Prof. Christian Coester, working on online algorithms and learning-augmented algorithms. She represented Romania at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2020), winning a Silver medal, and completed her prior degrees at Oxford. LinkedIn-profile records list software/quantitative developer roles at The D. E. Shaw Group.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. The LinkedIn-profile enrichment records an actual role as Quantitative Developer at The D. E. Shaw Group (Jul 2023 - Sep 2023) plus a Software Developer Internship there (Jul 2022 - Sep 2022); The D. E. Shaw Group is a New York-based quantitative hedge fund (company index lists it under Financial Services, domain deshaw.com), so a real role/internship at a genuine quantitative-finance employer is present and identity is supported by the Oxford IOI/Romania cross-links. Caveat: the two D. E. Shaw roles are LinkedIn-profile-derived (index/enrichment), NOT independently confirmed by the employer or an independent primary source. The QuantCo 'Software Engineer Intern' entry does NOT count toward quant finance: QuantCo is a data-science / algorithmic pricing company (insurance-focused), not a trading or investment firm.Sep 2023
• Identity CONFIRMED as one person across three independent families: IOI statistics page lists 'Maria Alexa Tudose' representing Romania at IOI 2020 (Silver medal); Oxford CS lists 'Maria-Alexa Tudose' as a DPhil (doctoral) student at St Edmund Hall supervised by Christian Coester; the LinkedIn profile maria-alexa-tudose-058b071b7 states 'PhD Student in Computer Science @ Oxford' and lists I. L. Caragiale National College Ploiesti alongside Oxford. The name and Oxford-plus-Romania context align, so the Olympiad identity and the Oxford/LinkedIn identity are the same person.Sep 2020
• Cross-source read: three independent families converge on the same person — the official IOI statistics page (Romania, IOI 2020) is corroborated by Romanian local press naming Alexa Tudose of CNILC Ploiesti as a Balcaniada gold medallist admitted to Oxford, and by the Oxford CS student page. The convergence makes the Olympiad identity and the Oxford/LinkedIn identity the same individual with high confidence.Sep 2020
• The two D. E. Shaw Group roles (Quantitative Developer Jul-Sep 2023, Software Developer Intern Jul-Sep 2022) come only from LinkedIn-derived profile enrichment; no independent source reviewed this run (Oxford CS pages, Oxford/UKIEPC news, or Romanian press) mentions D. E. Shaw, so those roles should be read as LinkedIn-only rather than primary-source-confirmed.Sep 2023
• IOI 2020 (online, September 2020): represented Romania and won a Silver medal, per the official IOI statistics page (medal field = Silver) with a competitor photo on file.Sep 2020
• Won Gold at the 27th Balkan Olympiad in Informatics (Athens, September 2019) as a class-XII pupil at Colegiul National 'I. L. Caragiale' Ploiesti, scoring 515 points (tied with a Serbian contestant); Romanian press described her as the first girl in the competition's history to take gold, and noted she already held 14 international medals while preparing for the Baccalaureate.Sep 20, 2019
• Oxford DPhil research area is online algorithms (decisions made in real time without knowledge of the future) and learning-augmented algorithms (using predictions to cope with future uncertainty), supervised by Prof. Christian Coester; she is a member of St Edmund Hall and lists the Algorithms and Complexity Theory research theme. As of the page she is a 'second year' DPhil student.May 2024
• Romanian local press reported she was admitted to Oxford (headline: 'singura fata medaliată cu aur la Balcaniadă ... admisă la Oxford'), confirming the Ploiesti-to-Oxford path independently of LinkedIn.Jan 16, 2020
• Education timeline: I. L. Caragiale National College Ploiesti, Romania (high school) then University of Oxford, where LinkedIn/aggregator records list a Bachelor's in Computer Science, an MCompSci in Computer Science, and an in-progress DPhil in Computer Science. The Oxford CS page independently confirms the DPhil.May 2024
• Named as a member of the Oxford Department of Computer Science competitive-programming team in the October 2023 UKIEPC (UK & Ireland Programming Contest): the Oxford news post lists 'Maria-Alexa Tudose (Univ, 4th year CS)' and reports Oxford took the top three UK/Ireland places, showing continued competitive-programming activity into her fourth Oxford year.Oct 23, 2023
• Prahova Business reported she was a former head-of-year/valedictorian ('sefa de promotie') at CNILC Ploiesti and then head of year at Oxford — a second Romanian local-press data point tying the Ploiesti student and the Oxford student together.Aug 5, 2024