Rickard Norlander

Specialties: Software Development. Mathematical modelling. Algorithm design.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. He held an actual Software Engineer role at Hudson River Trading (HRT) from Jan 2019 to Sep 2019 in New York, per his LinkedIn profile; HRT's own site confirms it develops automated/algorithmic trading strategies, i.e. a quantitative proprietary trading firm (market-making/HFT), not merely a name containing 'quant'. Identity is supported by convergent evidence: the LinkedIn profile (KTH 2010-2014, Neurize Stockholm, Google 2015-2019, HRT 2019) matches the Swedish IMO 2009 contestant's name, nationality, birth year (b. 1990, making him ~19 at IMO 2009) and sequential gymnasium (Danderyds, ~2009) then KTH education. The role is self-reported on LinkedIn rather than independently confirmed by HRT; no other quant-finance employer (bank, asset manager, energy or crypto trading) appears in his documented history.Sep 17, 2026
• INDEX-ONLY (LinkedIn): Founder at Neurize (Sep 2019-present, Stockholm); Software Engineer at Hudson River Trading (2019, New York); Software Engineer at Google (2015-2019); Programmer at OOF (2012); Software Developer at Digpro/Digpro AB (2008, 2009, 2010). Timeline is the LinkedIn self-report, not third-party verified.Sep 17, 2026
• Swedish population/company-register aggregators (derived from Bolagsverket/register data) name Carl Rickard Victor Norlander, born 1990-05-10, registered in Stockholm; his sole proprietorship 'Neurize' was registered 2019 with 0 turnover and no employees, indicating a one-person consultancy rather than a staffed startup.Sep 17, 2026
• Confirms Olympiad identity: IMO 2009, Sweden team, honourable mention with 12 points (296th of 565), problem scores 7/2/1/0/2/0.Jul 1, 2009
• Hudson River Trading self-describes as researching and developing automated trading algorithms (a quantitative proprietary trading firm), so the 2019 software-engineer role there is quant-finance employment; the role itself is documented on his LinkedIn profile.Sep 17, 2026
• KTH Royal Institute of Technology, two documented theses: a 2012 bachelor's thesis in Mathematics on pole-zero speech modelling (supervisor Per Enqvist) and a 2015 computer-science master's thesis on wooden knot detection with ConvNets, showing a mathematics-to-applied-ML shift across his degree.Jun 1, 2015
• Co-authored 'Wooden Knot Detection Using ConvNet Transfer Learning' (Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, 2015) with Josef Grahn and Atsuto Maki; it has been cited 20+ times in later wood-defect and deep-learning work.Jun 15, 2015
• Also competed at IOI 2009 in the Swedish team (Simon Lindholm, Rickard Norlander, Rikard Lundmark, Arash Rouhani), per Ung Vetenskapssport - the same gymnasium cohort later surfaced at KTH.Aug 1, 2009
• Contributed a commit to lisa-lab/pylearn2 (a deep-learning library) in March 2014 under 'Rickard Norlander <[contact omitted]>', consistent with his KTH ConvNet thesis period and indicating hands-on ML-library work.Mar 26, 2014