Robert Newey

Robert Newey is a computer scientist and statistician at Optiver, a global market maker and high-frequency trading firm, where he has worked as an Execution Researcher since October 2019 (indexed profile; corroborated by an Optiver graduate-profile interview). He works in Optiver's Performance Research team analysing execution and exchange systems at a networking/OS level, and feeding results into production with Traders and Developers. Before Optiver he was Lead Data Scientist at Premonition (2015-2019), a logistics-optimisation software company, and held research-assistant and tutor roles at UNSW. A former Australian IOI competitor (IOI 2010; IOI 2011 bronze), he later served as Program Director and Australia Team Leader for the Australian Informatics Olympiad team.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Robert Newey has actual roles at Optiver, a genuine high-frequency trading firm and global market maker: Execution Researcher (from Oct 2019, per indexed LinkedIn profile and corroborated by an Optiver graduate-profile interview in which he describes working in the Performance Research team on execution and exchange-system analysis) and a Software Development Internship (Dec 2013-Feb 2014, index-dated). Identity is supported: the LinkedIn profile (headline 'Execution Researcher at Optiver Asia Pacific', Greater Sydney Area) matches the IOI identity Robert Newey (Australia, IOI 2011 bronze, also IOI 2010). Premonition (Lead Data Scientist, 2015-2019) was a logistics/transport-optimisation SaaS company, NOT a quant-finance firm, so it does not count toward quant employment. Conclusion rests on the Optiver employment and internship.
• Identity confirmed by convergence: the LinkedIn profile describes 'a Computer Scientist and Statistician' at Optiver in Greater Sydney, and the IOI record lists Robert Newey representing Australia at IOI 2010 and IOI 2011 (bronze) - the same person later served as Program Director/Team Leader of the Australian IOI team (AusIOI blog, 2018), tying the Olympiad and professional identities together.
• Optiver role substance (from an Optiver graduate-story interview): Robert Newey is in the Performance Research team, which focuses on execution, speed and success; his work involves statistically analysing the exchange system at a networking/OS level and feeding results to Traders and Developers - i.e. systematic/HFT execution research, not discretionary trading.
• Premonition employer classification: the indexed LinkedIn snippet for his Lead Data Scientist role (May 2015-Sep 2019) says he 'Created innovative predictive analytics and machine learning solutions in the logistics space', and a press item identifies 'Premonition's chief data scientist Robert Newey' working on a logistics product; the matching company is Premonition.io, a logistics SaaS firm - so this role is data science in logistics, not quantitative finance.
• IOI 2011 (Pattaya, Thailand, 29 Jul 2011): Robert Newey represented Australia and won a Bronze medal, rank 117, score 316/600.
• Beyond competing, he stayed in the Australian informatics-olympiad community: Program Director of the Australian IOI team (AusIOI blog, 27 Jun 2018, for IOI 2018 in Tsukuba, Japan) and previously Australian Team Leader and International Scientific Committee member (2009-2014) cited in a 2017 UQ article.
• Optiver internship: Software Development Intern at Optiver Asia Pacific, index-dated Dec 2013-Feb 2014 - a real internship (distinct from recruiting events), and the earliest evidence of him at the firm, ~5 years before the Execution Researcher role.
• A Google Software Engineering Internship appears in his indexed work history alongside the Optiver internship, indicating software-engineering internships at two major tech/trading employers during his studies.
• IOI 2010 (Waterloo, Canada, 21 Aug 2010): Robert Newey represented Australia, rank 164, score 514/820.
• University roles: Research Assistant in the School of Mathematics and Statistics and Tutor at UNSW Australia appear in his work history - academic research/tutoring during or after his degree, not industry quant roles.
• Education: Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Statistics (Double Degree), University of New South Wales (UNSW).
• Based in the Greater Sydney Area, Australia; grew up and competed for NSW (Cobar High School, NSW, per a former-Australian-Olympians record page).