Marko Tanevski

Marko Tanevski is a computer science student at Rice University (Class of 2026, minors in Data Science and Mathematics), representing North Macedonia at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2021 and 2022, winning a bronze medal in 2022. He has held software engineering and research roles including research internships at the Wharton School (Bastani Lab) and Rice's Treangen Lab, TA work at Rice, and an indexed listing of a Software Engineering Intern role at Jane Street in 2025.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only employment evidence for a quantitative-finance employer is a LinkedIn-derived index/aggregator listing of a Software Engineering Intern role at Jane Street (May-Aug 2025), carried in this profile's past_roles. Jane Street is classified as a quantitative trading firm and ETF market maker, so the named employer does operate in quantitative finance; however the role rests solely on an index/aggregator (LinkedIn via the enrichment index and the unifers.ai aggregator), not on an independent primary source such as Jane Street's own site, press coverage, or a resume. No conflicting evidence was found. Identity is supported (IOI 2022 North Macedonia, Rice University CS), matching the listed profile, but index-only employment is retained as explicitly uncertain rather than CONFIRMED. Other roles (Rice CS TA, Wharton/Bastani Lab research intern, Rice Treangen Lab research intern, Semos Education instructor) are non-quantitative-finance.Sep 17, 2026
• Penn SUMR 2024 scholar at the Wharton School (Bastani Lab): worked with Dr. Hamsa Bastani and Tsai-Hsuan (Angel) Chung on a Somaliland Ministry of Health project applying reinforcement learning to personalized patient tracking and outreach for noncommunicable diseases; the LDI page lists him as a Rice CS major (Class of 2026) with minors in Data Science and Mathematics.Jun 13, 2024
• IOI 2022 (Indonesia, Aug 2022): ranked 111/349 with 229.25/600 and won a Bronze Medal representing North Macedonia; the Macedonian team of four high-schoolers achieved the country's historically highest IOI result.Aug 15, 2022
• At Rice he worked in the Treangen Lab developing an AI chatbot for bioinformatics, alongside the Wharton/Bastani Lab public-health RL work - two separate research assistantships in different domains.Jun 13, 2024
• Selected Rice University (Houston) for his bachelor's over the Carnegie Mellon Qatar campus, both of which offered him scholarships; chose Rice for its campus atmosphere and Houston location.May 31, 2022
• Rice ICPC involvement: the Rice CS competitive-programming club (coached by John Greiner) is documented in a Jan 2023 department news feature, and a Kattis NA South Division 2023 team listing places him on a Rice team - consistent with continued competitive programming after high school.Jan 4, 2023
• Earlier IOI attempt: IOI 2021, ranked 241/351 with 170/600 and no medal, representing North Macedonia - so IOI 2022 was a second participation with improvement.Jun 25, 2021
• Codeforces handle 'Kanaifu' is listed as his external competitive-programming profile on the CP Hall of Fame IOI profile, and the same 'kanaifu' string appears as a GitHub account in search - consistent handle across platforms, though the GitHub account itself is not yet independently confirmed.
• Google Scholar profile (user=C7eGoW4AAAAJ) shows 4 citations, h-index 1, i10-index 0 - a modest research footprint consistent with an undergraduate researcher.Sep 17, 2026
• Was a student supported by the BT NOVA scholarship program at NOVA International Schools (announcement post).