Ram Goel

Ram Goel is a mathematician and quantitative researcher. He represented the United States at the 2022 International Mathematical Olympiad (bronze medal) and was a 2021 Spirit of Ramanujan Fellow. He studied Mathematics and Computer Science at MIT (B.S., 2022-2025), did number-theory/combinatorics research through MIT PRIMES-USA and with David Perkinson, and co-authored an arXiv paper on counting independent sets (2024). His industry experience includes machine-learning research (KV-cache compression) and, per LinkedIn, quantitative research at Citadel.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. Identity is supported (the LinkedIn profile ram-goel-5a662320a matches IMO-2022 US team member Ram Krishna Goel: MIT, Portland OR, mathematics), and the lead - if accurate - is a genuine Citadel Global Quantitative Strategies internship (summer 2025) and full-time Quantitative Research Analyst role (from February 2026): Citadel, a global hedge fund and market maker, is unambiguously quantitative finance, and these are work roles rather than student programs. But the employment evidence is solely index-only / LinkedIn self-report with no independent primary-source confirmation, and the dates come from the caller's index lead rather than a verified source. Because the role rests on an index/aggregator rather than a primary source, employment is recorded as UNRESOLVED rather than CONFIRMED. Educational and research facts (IMO, MIT, PRIMES, arXiv) are independently sourced.2026
• Identity: Ram Krishna Goel ('Ram Goel') of Portland, Oregon, attended Krishna Homeschool and was on the 2022 US IMO team; the LinkedIn profile ram-goel-5a662320a (MIT, Portland OR, math/CS) matches this person, so the employment lead attaches to the right identity.Sep 2025
• Won bronze (25 points, rank 230) at IMO 2022 in Oslo on a US team that placed first, alongside Derek Liu, Luke Robitaille, Kevin Cong, Eric Shen and Andrew Gu.Jul 2022
• Holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from MIT, graduating February 2026 with an additional major in Course XVIII (mathematics) per the MIT 2026 Commencement name book - two months before the February 2026 Citadel start date in the lead.Feb 2026
• The similarly-named GitHub (RamGoel/@sarvamai), X (@theramgoel) and YouTube (ramgoelyt) accounts belong to an unrelated India-based frontend engineer and were excluded; no GitHub, X, personal site, resume or press coverage of the subject's Citadel work was found, which is why the employment claim stays index-only.2026
• Reported (IRO bio) to have original algebraic combinatorics research published in the Journal of Combinatorics, with an ISEF 2022 3rd-place Grand Award in Mathematics; claim rests on the IRO advisory-board bio alone.2025
• Co-authored arXiv 'Number of Independent Sets in Regular and Irregular Graphs: A 31 Year Journey' (May 2024) with Dev Chheda and Eddie Qiao - continued mathematics research output during his MIT years.May 30, 2024
• INDEX-ONLY (LinkedIn enrichment): Machine Learning Research Intern at Together AI (San Francisco, 2024), researching fast LLM inference mainly via KV-cache compression - a genuine ML research internship, not quantitative finance.2024
• Completed an MIT PRIMES-USA high-school research project, 'Products of reflections in smooth Bruhat intervals' (mentor Christian Gaetz), presented at the Eleventh Annual Fall Term PRIMES Conference, Oct 2021 - original algebraic combinatorics at pre-college level.Oct 16, 2021
• Named a 2021 Spirit of Ramanujan Fellow at 16 as a high-school sophomore from Oregon - a young-mathematician fellowship that predates his IMO and research record.2021
• Serves on the inaugural Student Board of Advisors of the International Research Olympiad (announced Jan 2024) and was later described by IRO as a 'distinguished researcher and mathematician' on its advisory board - a volunteer advisory role, not employment.Jan 30, 2024
• INDEX-ONLY (LinkedIn enrichment): Research at MIT CSAIL, Learning and Intelligent Systems group (2022-2023), developing diffusion models for scalable robot behavior synthesis.2023