Praveen Wijerathna

Praveen Wijerathna (Australia) competed at IMO 2014, earning a Silver Medal (rank 50, 28 points). He won Gold at the 2014 Australian Mathematical Olympiad and 1st Prize in the 2014 UNSW School Mathematics Competition as a Year 12 student at James Ruse Agricultural High School. Index and aggregator profiles associate the name with a Trader role at Jane Street, a quantitative trading firm, spanning 2019-2024; the identity link is unverified against a primary source.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. Index/LinkedIn enrichment and a RocketReach aggregator profile both state the role Trader at Jane Street 2019-2024 (headline 'Ex-Quantitative Trader at Jane Street'), located Australia; Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider by its own site, so the employer classifies as quantitative finance and the role is employment, not a student program. But both are index/aggregator records rather than independent primary confirmation, and neither cross-links the trader profile to the IMO 2014 Australian contestant beyond a shared name and country. The role is recorded as asserted by the aggregators, with the identity link to the Olympiad individual unresolved.2026
• Represented Australia at IMO 2014 (Cape Town): rank 50 overall, Silver Medal, 28 points (7/7/0/7/7/0); teammate Alexander Gunning took gold.Jul 2014
• The name is not distinctive (many 'Wijerathna' profiles, including a separate Praveen Wijerathna in Kolonnawa, Sri Lanka), so identifier matches were accepted only when company and country aligned.2026
• The same Facebook profile lists residence as New York, New York, which conflicts with the Australia location on the LinkedIn/aggregator records and with Australian schooling; unresolved (possibly US residence during the Jane Street years).2024
• 2014 Australian Mathematical Olympiad: Gold award, competing for James Ruse Agricultural High School NSW as a Year 12 student.2014
• Jane Street, the employer named in the trader records, is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider and a SEC-registered broker dealer, so the employer qualifies as quantitative finance.2024
• Won 1st Prize in the 2014 UNSW School Mathematics Competition while at James Ruse Agricultural High School.2014
• Authored a published solution in the 2014 Australian Scene (AMOC) as a Year 12 student; the document describes him as a Silver medallist with the 2014 Australian IMO team.2014
• Only education trace beyond secondary school: a self-reported Facebook profile lists study at UNSW and former schooling at James Ruse Agricultural High School and Beecroft; no degree, field, or graduation year is stated.2024