Methus Kiatchaiwat

Methus Kiatchaiwat is a data scientist based in Bangkok, Thailand. He represented Thailand at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in 2016, winning a bronze medal, and competed at the ACM-ICPC World Finals in 2017 with Chulalongkorn University. He studied Computer Engineering at Chulalongkorn University (2016-2020). His professional career has been at SCB - Siam Commercial Bank, where he progressed from Data Scientist (2020-2023) to Senior Data Scientist (2023-2026) to Lead Data Scientist (2026-present). He held a Data Science Internship at WorldQuant in 2019, a quantitative investment firm.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Methus Kiatchaiwat held a Data Science Internship at WorldQuant in 2019 (Jun-Aug), located in Bangkok, Thailand, described on his LinkedIn profile as quantitative alpha modeling - engineering computer-based financial models to forecast global equity price movements and maximizing risk-adjusted returns, plus performance stress-testing. WorldQuant is a genuine quantitative finance employer: its own careers site states it 'is a quantitative asset management firm, founded in 2007, with more than 850 employees across 13 countries' (worldquant.com/careers/), so this is a real quant-investment role, not merely a company name containing 'quant'. His identity is supported by the IOI 2016 page (Thailand, bronze, handle jumpwmk), the CPHOF profile, the Codeforces handle jumpwmk, and the Chulalongkorn ResearchGate profile, all matching the LinkedIn identity. Caveat: the WorldQuant internship itself is documented on his LinkedIn profile as surfaced by the enrichment index - it is index-sourced, not independently confirmed by a WorldQuant primary source; no other trading, hedge-fund, market-making or quant employer appears in his history. His post-2020 career (Data Scientist -> Senior Data Scientist -> Lead Data Scientist) is entirely at SCB - Siam Commercial Bank, a commercial bank whose data-science work here is wealth/relationship-banking analytics rather than trading.Sep 17, 2026