Nikita Chernega

Nikita Chernega is a quantitative researcher at XTX Markets, a London-based algorithmic trading firm and market maker, working from Yerevan, Armenia. He represented the Russian Federation at the 2014 International Mathematical Olympiad and won a gold medal. He studied mathematics at MIPT and co-authored the combinatorics paper 'Disjoint edges in geometric graphs'. Prior roles listed on his profile are Engineer at Huawei and Business Analyst at Tinkoff Bank. The current XTX role rests on an index/LinkedIn record, not independent primary-source confirmation.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only source placing Nikita Chernega in a quantitative-finance role is an index/LinkedIn enrichment record (chernega25) listing 'Quantitative Researcher, XTX Markets, 2025-present, Yerevan, Armenia' - an index-only, aggregator-derived claim, not independent primary-source confirmation. No XTX Markets primary document (careers page, bylined research, filing, press release, conference/talk bio) naming him was found. Earlier roles on the same record are Huawei (Engineer, 2019-2022, Moscow) and Tinkoff Bank (Business Analyst, 2017-2019), both non-quantitative. Employer classification: XTX Markets is genuinely a quantitative firm - its own site describes it as 'a leading algorithmic trading firm that uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to produce price forecasts' - so a role there would qualify, but the employment itself remains unconfirmed. Student programs, olympiad results and competitions are excluded and do not establish employment.
• IMO-official contestant page (id 24976) confirms Nikita Chernega represented the Russian Federation at IMO 2014 and won a gold medal with 36 points, rank 12 (98.0%).2014
• Co-authored 'Disjoint edges in geometric graphs' (arXiv:2111.05425, math.CO), a combinatorics/geometry paper, later published in Graphs and Combinatorics (2022); shows sustained research activity past the olympiad years.Nov 2021
• Index/LinkedIn enrichment record lists Nikita Chernega as Quantitative Researcher at XTX Markets (xtxmarkets.com), Yerevan, Armenia, from 2025; index-only claim, not primary-source confirmation.
• XTX Markets self-describes on its own site as 'a leading algorithmic trading firm that uses state-of-the-art machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for over 53,000 financial instruments' - establishing XTX as a genuine quantitative/market-making firm (employer classification, not employment confirmation).
• Past roles on the index record are non-quantitative: Huawei (Engineer, 2019-2022, Moscow) and Tinkoff Bank (Business Analyst, 2017-2019), so if the XTX role is real it would be his first quantitative-finance position.
• MIPT mathematics degree (2014-2020) on the index record; as a 4th-year MIPT FIVT student he placed 2nd-9th in the senior group of the 28th Voitech Jarnik Mathematical Competition (2018).