Mikhail Grigorev

Mikhail Grigorev is a mathematician and research lead. He represented the Russian Federation twice at the International Mathematical Olympiad (2011, 2012), winning gold both years. He studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), earning a BSc in Mathematics (2012-2016) and an MSc in Mathematics and Computer Science (2016-2018). His early career combined research (Inria research intern 2015; researcher at AIMTECH 2015-2017) with mathematics teaching and olympiad problem-setter work at MIPT and other organizations. Since 2021 he has been Research Team Lead at Pinely, a proprietary algorithmic/HFT trading firm headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus.

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• Pinely employer classification: CONFIRMED quantitative/HFT — Pinely is a privately owned algorithmic trading firm focused on high-frequency and ultra-low-latency trading, based in Singapore, the Netherlands and Cyprus; the company's own site and its Codeforces profile describe it this way, and AlgoTradingMap (an aggregator) lists it as 'High-Frequency Trading / Prop Trading'.Jul 2022
• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Mikhail Grigorev holds an actual, present role as Research Team Lead at Pinely, an algorithmic/HFT proprietary trading firm (pinely.com) - not a student program, insight day, or incoming offer. Identity is supported by his LinkedIn (MIPT/IMO background, Cyprus) plus two independent corroborations of the same role: his GetMentor mentor page ('Research lead @ Pinely, High frequency trading') and his Codeforces profile 'bobrdobr' (Moscow) being affiliated with the organisation 'pinely'. Employer classification: Pinely is a privately owned proprietary/algorithmic trading firm running in-house HFT strategies (per pinely.com and its careers/Codeforces profiles); AlgoTradingMap, an aggregator, lists it as 'High-Frequency Trading / Prop Trading'. The April 2021 start date comes from the LinkedIn-derived index and is index-only, not independently dated; the role itself is corroborated by the two non-index sources above. No other past/present quant-finance role or internship was found - his other listed roles (MIPT lecturer, Mathmaker product owner, AIMTECH researcher, Inria research intern) are mathematics/education/research, not quant trading.
• Mikhail Grigorev has been Research Team Lead at Pinely since April 2021 per the LinkedIn-derived index record; the role label is corroborated by his GetMentor mentor page ('Research lead @ Pinely, High frequency trading') and by his Codeforces profile being affiliated with the organisation 'pinely' — the index date itself is index-only, not independently dated.
• Early-career overlap: he was a Researcher at AIMTECH (index record, 2015-2017) and Research Team Lead at Pinely from 2021; AlgoTradingMap describes Pinely as the 'successor to AIM Tech (est. 2008 on MOEX)', suggesting these are the same lineage of firms rather than unrelated employers, though the sources do not state he transferred directly.
• GetMentor page states he is a 'two-time gold medallist at IMO' and a 'four-time gold medallist at IMC (International Mathematics Competition)' — the four IMC golds are an additional credential beyond the IMO results and are consistent with MIPT university competition results (index-only; the aggregator page is self-reported).
• He was a Research Intern at Inria (Nice, France) in 2015, listed among 'Former Members' of the Inria NEO team as 'Mikhail Grigorev – MFTI Moskow', i.e. an MIPT-affiliated intern on the NEO (Network Engineering and Operations) project.
• He is a co-author of 'On the Circle Covering Theorem by A.W. Goodman and R.E. Goodman' (Discrete & Computational Geometry, 2018), with Alexey Balitskiy and Arseniy Akopyan — a peer-reviewed geometry paper written during his MIPT studies, giving him a publication record.Jan 2018
• He taught mathematics at MIPT as a lecturer/instructor around 2017-2020 (index record) and authored MIPT online courses (e.g. 'Around Euler's formula') as a course author with the published contact address [contact omitted].
• He was a Product Owner at Mathmaker (2019-2020), doing 'fundraising and development organisation of mathmaker.ru website' — an education/mathematics project, not finance.
• Beyond his own competition record he became a coach/leader: the IMC 2024 team results list a 'Mikhail Grigorev (team leader)' for the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology team, indicating he stayed connected to MIPT's competitive-mathematics program years later (index-only).
• Codeforces handle 'bobrdobr' (Михаил Григорьев, Moscow, organisation pinely, rating 1936, max ~2032) corroborates his Pinely affiliation and his competitive-programming involvement (ACM-ICPC NEERC quarterfinals 2014-2015 with MIPT team 'Moscow IPT Frittata').
• At IMO 2011 he scored 30/42 (rank 14) and at IMO 2012 33/42 (rank 17), both gold medals for the Russian Federation — contest results from competition aggregators, not employment evidence.