OAOsman Akar
Norwalk, Connecticut, United States · operatorI am a Ph.D. student in Applied Mathematics. My research interests are computational linear algebra, machine learning and physics/PDE based computer graphics for simulations.
- Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Osman Akar's personal site states he is 'working as Quantitative Research Analyst at Graham Capital Management', and his LinkedIn profile (index/aggregator) lists the same role starting Feb 2025 in Norwalk, Connecticut. Identity supported: IMO official records confirm Osman Akar, Turkiye, IMO 2013/2014, matching the UCLA/PhD identity on the same site. Employer classification: Graham Capital Management, L.P. is a systematic/macro hedge fund whose own site lists 'Quantitative Strategies' and 'Global Macro Strategies', so the role is genuinely quantitative finance. Role is index- and self-reported, not independently confirmed by a Graham Capital published staff listing.Sep 17, 2026
- Gold medalist at IMO 2014 (score 40/42, 93%) and silver medalist at IMO 2013 (score 25), both representing Turkiye, per IMO official contestant records (participant id 23008).Jul 2014
- PhD in Applied Mathematics, UCLA (2019-2024); MA Mathematics (2016-2019) and BS Mathematics of Computation (2015-2019), also UCLA.2024
- No non-UCLA quant-finance role or internship found beyond the Graham Capital Management analyst role; the Epic Games, IPAM, and UCLA appointments are research/teaching, not trading or investment positions.Sep 17, 2026
- Research internship at Epic Games (2022-2024) applying machine learning to signed distance functions for physics-based simulation of human body motion in Unreal Engine.2024
- Co-authored 'A Deep Conjugate Direction Method for Iteratively Solving Linear Systems' at ICML 2023 (Kaneda, Akar, et al.) and 'A Deep Gradient Correction Method for Iteratively Solving Linear Systems' — computational linear algebra / learned iterative solvers.Jul 2023
- Taught olympiad mathematics as Lead Instructor at the UCLA Olga Radko Math Circle (2021-2023) and Assistant Instructor at the Los Angeles Math Circle (2018-2019), and was a TA at TUBITAK's national Mathematical Olympiad training camp (Antalya, 2015).2023
- Sole recipient of the UCLA Mathematics Undergraduate Merit Scholarship (class of 2019) and graduated Cum Laude, per his personal site.2019
Designed a novel machine learning based method to compute signed distance function (SDF) of human body motion depending on the rotation of joints in the skeleton, so that the defor
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In general, main focus of my projects has been to improve existing algorithms/methods that are used in physics-based simulations via learning-based approaches. I was also the instr
LAMC is UCLA based K12 enrichment program. I am part of instructor team (1 lead, 4 assistants) for the class of approximately 20-25 students in advance level (8 and 9 grade). I wor
Worked on a research team that built an automated video augmentation pipeline that identifies crowd regions in sports videos and overlays an advertisement onto these regions, so th
Undergraduate Researcher at California Research Training Program in Computational and Applied Mathematics 2017, UCLA Applied Mathematics REU • Worked on a research team that appli
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) organizes 2-week National Mathematical Olympiad Training camps for top 50 high school students twice a year. I
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Türkiye · IMO