Minyu Peng
Stanford, California, United States · engineerMinyu Peng is a mathematician and quantitative-trading developer. He won a gold medal at the 2004 International Mathematical Olympiad representing the People's Republic of China, studied mathematics at Peking University, and earned a PhD in Mathematics at Stanford University in 2013 under George Papanicolaou, with a dissertation on deviation inequalities for eigenvalues of deformed random matrices (also published as arXiv:1205.0572). Since August 2013 he has been an Algorithm Developer at Hudson River Trading, a high-frequency trading firm; earlier roles on his profile are a summer 2012 Quantitative Researcher internship at Citadel LLC in the tactical trading group and a 2011 Associate position at Credit Suisse. Career and education detail beyond the IMO/Stanford/arXiv records derives from his LinkedIn profile via the enrichment index (self-reported).
- Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Identity is supported by cross-linked primary records: the 2004 IMO gold medal result for Minyu Peng (China) and Stanford's mathematics PhD profile (2013, advisor Papanicolaou) both match the name and field of the target, and the LinkedIn profile carries the same name with Stanford PhD / Peking University BA. Employment evidence: the LinkedIn enrichment profile records an Algorithm Developer role at Hudson River Trading (a high-frequency trading firm) beginning August 2013 and a summer 2012 Quantitative Researcher internship at Citadel LLC (in the tactical trading group); Citadel is a hedge fund and HRT a high-frequency trading firm, so both are genuine quantitative-finance employers, not name-only matches. Caveat: the HRT and Citadel roles rest on the self-reported LinkedIn-derived enrichment index rather than an independent primary-source employment record, so they evidence a stated role/internship but are not separately employer-confirmed.
- Won a gold medal at the 2004 International Mathematical Olympiad representing the People's Republic of China, ranked 20th with 35 points (96.1%), one of China's two golds that year.Jul 2004
- Career begins with an Associate position at Credit Suisse in New York in 2011, then a summer Quantitative Researcher internship at Citadel LLC (2012) in the tactical trading group, and an Algorithm Developer role at Hudson River Trading from August 2013 onward; role and date detail is from the LinkedIn-derived enrichment index, i.e. self-reported profile data rather than independent primary-source confirmation.
- Completed a PhD in Mathematics at Stanford University in 2013 under advisor George Papanicolaou, dissertation 'Deviation Inequalities for Eigenvalues of Deformed Random Matrices'; Stanford's own profile and the Mathematics Genealogy Project both record the degree and advisor.2013
- Hudson River Trading is a high-frequency trading firm, and Citadel LLC is a multi-strategy hedge fund; both are genuinely quantitative-finance employers, so the HRT and Citadel roles fall within quantitative trading rather than merely carrying a 'quant' name.
- Authored the probability preprint 'Eigenvalues of Deformed Random Matrices' (arXiv:1205.0572), submitted May 2012 and revised June 2012, on the deformed GOE and spiked population models; the sole author byline is Minyu Peng.May 2012
- Listed education includes a BA in Mathematics from Peking University followed by a PhD in Mathematics at Stanford (profile/enrichment index).
summer intern in the tactical trading group
Competition record
China · IMO