Norayr Baghdasaryan

Quantitative researcher at WorldQuant in Yerevan, Armenia, working up from research intern (2024) to senior quantitative researcher (2026). MSc Statistics and BSc Applied Mathematics from Yerevan State University. Former C++ engineer at Picsart; IMO 2019 bronze medalist for Armenia and Codeforces Candidate Master (2Nor22).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Norayr Baghdasaryan (LinkedIn /in/norayr-baghdasaryan; identity cross-confirmed by his Codeforces profile 2Nor22, which lists 'Norayr Baghdasaryan, Yerevan, Armenia, from Yerevan State University', and by the IMO participant record showing the Armenian 2019 contestant) holds a progression of WorldsQuant research roles: Quantitative Research Intern (Jul-Aug 2024), Quantitative Researcher (Feb-Dec 2025), and Senior Quantitative Researcher (Jan 2026-present). WorldQuant is a quantitative investment firm/asset manager, so the roles are genuine quant-finance employment, not a student program. Caveat: the role history is carried by the LinkedIn-derived people index (people_search + enrich), i.e. index-only evidence, not independent primary-source confirmation; identity itself is independently supported by Codeforces and IMO.Jan 2026
• IMO 2019 (Bath, UK): Norayr Baghdasaryan of Armenia scored 21/42 (P1=7, P4=7, P5=7, P2/P3/P6=0), ranked 214 of 621 at the 65.7th percentile, and won a Bronze medal; the official IMO participant page records exactly one IMO participation (2019).Jul 2019
• WorldQuant (employer classification) describes itself as a firm 'Pioneering Quantitative Investment Strategies' and is indexed under Financial Services, confirming the employer operates in quantitative investment/asset management rather than merely carrying 'quant' in its name.2026
• Education: MSc in Statistics, Yerevan State University (2023-2025); BSc in Applied Mathematics, Yerevan State University (2019-2023); high-school diploma from the Physics and Mathematics Specialized School, Yerevan (2016-2019) - a math-specialization track consistent with the olympiad record.2025
• Codeforces handle 2Nor22 is titled Candidate Master and lists him in Yerevan, Armenia, affiliated with Yerevan State University, cross-linking the code-competition identity to the LinkedIn employment identity.2026
• Software-engineering career before quant research ran through Picsart (Yerevan) in three steps - Junior C++ Engineer (2021-2022), C++ Engineer I (2022-2023), C++ Engineer II (2023-2024) - working on optimization and redesign of a high-performance cross-platform C++ library.2024
• His LinkedIn summary claims '2 International Mathematical Olympiad medals', but the official IMO participant record (id 29482) shows only the single 2019 bronze, so the second-medal claim is unverified by the primary olympiad database.2026
• Earliest roles were at Hylink Technologies LLC (Yerevan): Software Engineering Intern (2020) then Junior Software Engineer (2021), developing and optimizing the client side of a FIDO-protocol application.2021
• His self-description frames the code-competition and C++ background as the basis for the quant path ('2 International Mathematical Olympiad medals and the title of a Codeforces platform master ... C++ Software Engineer ... pursuing roles in High Frequency Trading'), but that motivation/interest framing is his own summary claim, not a factual recruiting or hiring record.2026
• Served as Teaching Assistant for Calculus and Real Analysis in the AUA Computer Science undergraduate program in 2022, alongside his Picsart engineering work.2022
• Based in Yerevan, Armenia; LinkedIn reports roughly 2,370 connections and 2,359 followers, an unusually large network for his career stage.2026