Nikita Dobronravov

Russian mathematician, IMO 2017 silver medalist (Russian Federation, 19 points, rank 115); Novosibirsk lyceum no. 130 graduate. Competed for St Petersburg State University: team winner of IMC 2018 and Grand First Prize at IMC 2021 (60 points). Index-only LinkedIn lead (unverified identity) shows Saint Petersburg, '#Ethereum' headline and a 2022 Assistant role at Jets Capital (Dubai).

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only employment lead for the IMO-2017 mathematician is an index/LinkedIn record (lead taiga-1052369651), which is not a primary-source-confirmed identity, showing a 2022 'Assistant' role at Jets Capital (Dubai). That role is a business/assistant position at a crypto/Web3 venture-capital fund (jets.capital; PitchBook 516037), not a role at a quantitative investment, trading, market-making, hedge-fund, or systematic-trading firm; no such role or internship for this person appears in any primary source (IMO/IMC/olympiad pages, SPbU mathematics pages, arXiv, conference abstract). Index-only and aggregator claims are not treated as independent primary-source confirmation, and no quant-finance role or internship is established.2022
• Nikita Dobronravov represented the Russian Federation at IMO 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, scoring 19 points (7,3,0,7,0,2) for a Silver Medal at rank 115; the official IMO individual-results table and a separate results page both show this.Jul 2017
• The single employment lead is an index/LinkedIn record (lead taiga-1052369651) with headline '#Ethereum', self-described 'Investor' at 'Freelance' (2020-present) and an 'Assistant' role at Jets Capital, located in Saint Petersburg with about 80 connections; same name, not a primary-source-confirmed identity.2022
• Jets Capital (jets.capital; PitchBook profile 516037) is a UAE venture-capital fund founded 2017 that invests in crypto and Web3 startups; it is not a quant hedge fund, market maker, or proprietary/systematic trading firm, so the 2022 'Assistant' role is not a quantitative-finance role.2022
• He studied at St Petersburg State University and competed on its team at the International Mathematics Competition (IMC): the team won IMC 2018 in Blagoevgrad, he scored 74 at IMC 2019, and he took a Grand First Prize (60 points) at IMC 2021.Aug 2021
• His documented research output is in mathematical analysis, not finance: a 2024 arXiv preprint 'A measure with small support and p-summable Fourier transform' (arXiv:2412.07314) and a 2024 article in Annales Fennici Mathematici.Dec 2024
• He gave the talk 'The Uncertainty Principle in mathematical analysis' at the 9th St. Petersburg Youth Conference in Probability and Mathematical Physics, listed with SPbU affiliation and the contact address [contact omitted].2023
• He co-authored 'On the Length of Shortest Strings Accepted by Two-Way Finite Automata' (DLT 2019, Springer LNCS 11647) with Egor Dobronravov and Alexander Okhotin.2019
• He competed from Novosibirsk, Lyceum No. 130 imeni M.A. Lavrentyeva, placing 10th at the 2014 International Student Olympiad in Cryptography as a pupil; this school identity is independent of the later university pages.2014