Nyamdavaa Amar

Nyamdavaa Amar is a Mongolian computer-science student at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a competitive-programming medallist: IOI 2019 silver, IOI 2020 gold, IOI 2021 silver; IMO 2020 silver; Codeforces grandmaster. He is an inaugural recipient of the NUS Sea Olympiad Scholarship and a member of NUS ICPC team absinthe, which placed 6th (silver) at the 2024 ICPC World Finals. Per his LinkedIn profile (index-derived), he was a Quantitative Research & Trading Intern at Quantedge (2023) and has been a Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital in the United Kingdom since 2024, with earlier software and ML engineering internships at Sea.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Nyamdavaa Amar's LinkedIn profile (index-derived) lists a Quantitative Trader role at Tower Research Capital (UK) starting 2024-07 and a Quantitative Research & Trading Internship at Quantedge (2023-06 to 2023-08); the NUS CS3233 course page independently names 'Nyamdavaa Amar ... Tower Research Capital (UK)', a separate corroboration of the Tower Research role. Employer classification: Tower Research Capital is a quantitative/proprietary trading firm and Quantedge is a Singapore systematic global-macro hedge fund, both operating in quantitative finance. Caveat: the role titles/dates themselves are index-derived (LinkedIn enrichment), not confirmed by a primary employer page.Jan 1, 2024
• Current role per index-derived LinkedIn: Quantitative Trader at Tower Research Capital (tower-research.com), based in the United Kingdom; not independently confirmed by an employer page.Jul 1, 2024
• NUS CS3233 (Competitive Programming) course page lists 'Nyamdavaa Amar, AP 24 (2nd); WF 24 (Silver), Tower Research Capital (UK)' in its roster of notable students, placing him at Tower Research Capital by 2024.Jan 1, 2024
• Quantedge internship (2023-06 to 2023-08) as Quantitative Research & Trading Intern was in Singapore; Quantedge is a Singapore-based systematic multi-asset hedge fund (quantedge.com describes a 'systematic quantitative investment strategy').Jun 1, 2023
• Inaugural recipient of the Sea Olympiad Scholarship (NUS Computing), awarded 2022 to IOI medallists pursuing Computer Science at NUS; enrolled as a first-year Computer Science student in 2022.Aug 4, 2022
• Won IOI 2020 gold medal (rank 27, 483.62/600) representing Mongolia, and silver medals at IOI 2019 (rank 71) and IOI 2021 (rank 57, 324/600).Jun 25, 2021
• Co-authored the research paper 'Pipeline Parallelism with Controllable Memory' (NUS / Sea AI Lab), published 2024-11-04, on memory-efficient pipeline-parallel training schedules.Nov 4, 2024
• Member of NUS ICPC team 'absinthe' with Bui Hong Duc and Rama Aryasuta Pangestu; team placed 6th (silver, $6000) at the 2024 ICPC World Finals and first at the 2023 ICPC Asia Jakarta Regional.Dec 22, 2023
• Won a silver medal at IMO 2020 representing Mongolia (score 29/42, rank 59).Sep 1, 2020
• Codeforces grandmaster under handle 'nvmdava' with a maximum rating of 2563; also linked to a second Codeforces handle 'notmyalt'.Jan 1, 2024
• Co-authored 'AdaptPipe: Mitigating Runtime Bubbles via Granularity-Adaptive Pipeline Scheduling' (NeurIPS 2024) with Penghui Qi, Xinyi Wan and Min Lin.Jan 1, 2024
• Worked at Sea (Singapore) as a Software Engineer Intern (2022) and later a Machine Learning Engineer Intern (2024), per index-derived LinkedIn history.Jan 1, 2024