Mohammad Reza Takapoui

Electrical engineer and quantitative researcher. PhD in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems) from Stanford (advisor Stephen Boyd); MSc Stanford; dual BSc from Sharif University of Technology (Electrical Engineering and Pure Mathematics). Silver medalist, 48th IMO (2007, Hanoi) and IMC first prize; Erdos number 3. Professional experience: Algorithmic Trader Intern at Jump Trading (Summer 2014), Decision Support Analyst Intern at Google (Summer 2015), Quantitative Researcher at Jump Trading LLC per LinkedIn index.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Actual employment confirmed: Algorithmic Trader Intern at Jump Trading, Chicago and New York, Summer 2014, per his own CV, which describes 'deriving predictions of the prices in future to build trading strategies leveraging supervised and unsupervised learning' - a genuine paid trading internship, not a student program. A later Quantitative Researcher role at Jump Trading LLC is supported by the LinkedIn index only (2017-2025), so it is index-only. Employer classification: Jump Trading (jumptrading.com) is a proprietary high-frequency algorithmic trading firm, so both roles are squarely quantitative trading. Identity is supported by a cross-linked chain: the Stanford personal page and CV ('Reza Takapoui', same Stanford email/phone, Stanford PhD EE under Stephen Boyd) align with the IMO 2007 Iran identity 'Mohammad Reza Takapoui' and the LinkedIn handle 'takapoui'.Sep 1, 2014
• Index-only (not independently corroborated): the LinkedIn index (person_id 374171518) records current title 'Quantitative Researcher' at Jump Trading LLC with role dates 2017-2025 and location Stanford, California, plus 1,847 connections and 1,921 followers. This is an index/aggregator claim, not primary-source confirmation, and was not inferred as current employment.Aug 13, 2026
• CV lists two professional tech internships: Algorithmic Trader Intern at Jump Trading (Summer 2014) and Decision Support Analyst Intern on Google's Data Science Team for Display Ads (Summer 2015, parameter estimation for optimal bid generation models) - both genuine internships, and the Google ad-bidding work is optimization-adjacent rather than quantitative trading.Sep 1, 2015
• Earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Information Systems) at Stanford (Sept 2014 onward, GPA 4.07/4.0) advised by Stephen Boyd, with research on embedded mixed-integer quadratic programming, quasi-Newton methods for conic optimization, and ADMM preconditioning - Boyd's convex-optimization group, the source of his optimization toolkit.Sep 1, 2014
• Personal/contact details published on his own CV: email [contact omitted] and phone (650) 492 3626 - self-published on his Stanford personal site.Jan 1, 2016
• Won Silver Medal for Iran at the 48th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), Hanoi, 2007, matching the olympiad identity 'Mohammad Reza Takapoui, Islamic Republic of Iran, IMO 2007' - this ties the index/CV person to the caller's olympiad lead.Jul 25, 2007
• Publications include 'A General System for Heuristic Solution of Convex Problems over Nonconvex Sets' (Diamond, Takapoui, Boyd, 2016) and 'A Simple Effective Heuristic for Embedded Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming' (Takapoui, Moehle, Boyd, Bemporad, 2015), both hosted in Boyd's Stanford paper archive - evidence of original solver research, not just coursework.Jan 1, 2015
• Graduated from Sharif University of Technology with dual BSc degrees (Electrical Engineering-Communications, GPA 3.9/4.0, ranked 2nd of 200+) and Mathematics-Pure Mathematics (GPA 4.0/4.0, ranked 1st of 100+) - the Iranian pipeline that feeds top math Olympiad students into engineering, and the school linked to his Olympiad team leadership.Jun 1, 2012
• Stanford personal site (stanford.edu/~takapoui, jemdoc-generated) is a classic academic link hub: Home, CV (CV_Reza.pdf), About Me, and Publications pages, with email and phone in the CV header - his most reliable primary self-description online.Jan 1, 2016
• Advisor link: Stephen Boyd (stanford.edu/~boyd) lists Takapoui among his group's people, and co-authored two of his papers - a durable academic lineage connecting the optimization lab to his later quant work.Jan 1, 2016
• Ranked 2nd of 135 students in the Stanford PhD Qualifying Examination (2013) and held the Numerical Technologies Founders Graduate Fellowship and the Oswald Garrison Villard Jr. Graduate Student Fellowship, alongside a co-teaching fellowship for EE364A Convex Optimization I - academic distinction predating his trading career.Jan 1, 2013
• Olympiad and competition record beyond the IMO: Gold Medal at the 24th National Mathematical Olympiad (Iran, 2006); Grand First Prize and Gold Medal at the 34th Iranian Mathematical Society Competition (Kashan, 2010); First Prize at the 17th International Mathematical Competition for university students (IMC, Blagoevgrad, 2010); and co-leader of the Sharif math olympiad team (per LinkedIn index) - a sustained competition-math profile.Jul 30, 2010