Oleksandr Rudenko

I love learning and understanding from first principles, teaching, solving challenging problems, building projects from scratch and working in a team. Highlights: • International Math Olympiad: twice medalist • Jane Street: Quantitative trader and researcher • CMU PhD: Algorithms, Combinatorics & Optimization • Math Olympiad coaching (since 2012): raised IMO gold medalists; USA national team IMO Deputy Leader; • Google’s Hashcode finalist: top 10 out of 10000 • Amazon: Built social chat-bot for Alexa • McKinsey: Network optimization • InMobi: Personalized content recommendation

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm (market-making and proprietary trading). Evidence of an actual role: CMU's Mathematical Sciences 'Past PhD recipients' page lists Oleksandr Rudenko's entry position as 'Jane Street Capital, New York, NY' after his 2022 PhD; the LinkedIn profile (headline 'Quant at Jane Street | Educator', current role Quantitative Trader at Jane Street since 2022, New York) and the index-backed enrichment record a 2022-present Quantitative Trader role and a 2021 Quant intern role at the same firm (the 2021 internship is index-only, not independently confirmed). Identity is supported by multiple independent sources: the IMO participant record (Ukraine, 2011/2012), CMU news and MAA news naming him as USA IMO Deputy Leader/coach, and advisor R. Ravi's CMU page listing him as PhD 2022 with first position Jane Street Capital. No non-finance employer with a similar name is implicated; the Jane Street lead is specific.2022
• CMU mathematics PhD (2022), thesis 'Topics in Network and Market Optimization', advisor R. Ravi; the department lists his entry position as Jane Street Capital, New York, NY.2022
• CMU (May 27, 2022) and MAA (Oct 20, 2020; Aug 3, 2021) news name him as USA IMO team coach / Deputy Leader, tying his public identity to both Ukraine (contestant 2011-2012) and the US coaching staff.May 27, 2022
• The only non-academic employer on his dated records is Jane Street (Quant intern 2021, Quantitative Trader 2022-present); his pre-2022 experience is research (Fields Institute), teaching (CMU TA) and math-olympiad coaching, not other finance firms.2022
• Served as Deputy Leader of the United States IMO team for EGMO/IMO cycles (2018; 2020-2022), an educator role distinct from his trading employment.2022
• Path from Ukraine math olympiad (2011-2012) to a US mathematics PhD and quantitative trading is documented across the IMO record, CMU department pages and CMU/MAA news; these sources show the sequence of roles and institutions but state nothing about how or why the hiring happened.2022
• Represented Ukraine at the International Mathematical Olympiad in both 2011 (bronze, rank 145, 21 points) and 2012 (silver, rank 72, 24 points).Jul 2012
• Google Hash Code finalist (top 10 of ~10,000) and built a social chatbot for Amazon Alexa, per his own LinkedIn summary; both are documented only on his self-reported profile.2022
• His LinkedIn highlights list 'Amazon: Built social chat-bot for Alexa', 'McKinsey: Network optimization' and 'InMobi: Personalized content recommendation' with no corresponding dated role in his work history, so they cannot be classified as employment; they read as projects or short engagements rather than jobs.2022
• Co-authored 'Multicommodity Multicast, Wireless and Fast' (ESA 2019) with R. Ravi, and 'Prepare for the Expected Worst: Algorithms for Reconfigurable Resources Under Uncertainty' (ESA 2019, 78:1-78:20).2019
• Co-authored 'Approximation algorithm for the 2-stage stochastic matroid...' in Operations Research Letters (2022) with T. Fukunaga and R. Ravi.2022
• Participated in the Fields Institute Undergraduate Summer Research Program (2015) in computer algebra.2015