Rui Zhu Wang

I'm a MSc student at the University of Oxford currently interested in research on combinatorial optimization and algorithms. I'm hardworking and creative, always ready to face new challenges with a strong background in mathematical olympiads and competitive programming.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Actual internships/roles at quantitative trading firms, with identity corroborated. IMC Trading (Amsterdam) Software Engineer Intern, summer 2023 (Jun-Sep 2023 per caller lead; LinkedIn lists 2023), and Squarepoint Quantitative Developer in London from 2025, listed as current. IMC is a proprietary trading firm / market maker (imc.com describes itself as a market maker using algorithms and quantitative models). Squarepoint Capital is a global quantitative investment manager running systematic, computer-driven strategies (squarepoint-capital.com, Wikipedia). Both are genuine quantitative-finance employers, not merely firms with 'quant' in the name. The prior Calouste Gulbenkian fellowship, Huawei research, JUNITEC and TA roles are not quant-finance.
• Bronze Medal at the 61st IMO (2020) representing Portugal, 22 points, rank 181 (70.8%).Sep 2020
• Won a bronze medal at the Southwestern Europe Regional Contest (SWERC) as part of team 'The Inlaws' with António Neves and Pedro Bezerra da Costa (Jan 27-28, 2024, Sorbonne Université, Paris) while an Applied Mathematics and Computation (LMAC) undergraduate at Técnico.Jan 2024
• Completed his Math BSc final project at Instituto Superior Técnico (2024) under João Ribeiro, whose research group studies coding/information theory; Ribeiro's site records his next step as the MFoCS MSc at Oxford, corroborating the Oxford move.2024
• Honourable Mention at IMO 2019 representing Portugal, 16 points, rank 303 (51.4%).Jul 2019
• Awarded a Calouste Gulbenkian 'New Talents' research fellowship in Mathematics (2022-2023), a scholarship rather than employment; listed among 70 students in the 2022 awards announcement.Dec 2022
• Junior Researcher at Huawei (Warsaw, 2022-2023) working on the Travelling Salesman Problem for real-world applications; this is a research internship/role, not a quantitative-finance position.2022
• Won a silver medal at the 2020 Ibero-American Olympiad in Informatics (OII), rank 12, score 210.0, representing Portugal.2020
• As a 10th-grade pupil at Escola Secundária de Faro he won a gold medal with maximum score at the 8th CPLP (Community of Portuguese Language Countries) Mathematics Olympiad, an early signal of Olympiad-level talent predating his IMO appearances.Sep 2018
• Member of the winning IST team 'The Inlaws' (with António Neves and Pedro Bezerra da Costa) that placed 12th at the EUC 2024 programming contest; Técnico news also documents their SWERC success.2024
• Teaching Assistant in the Department of Mathematics at Instituto Superior Técnico (2023-2024) while completing his BSc.2023
• Competed in informatics olympiads; LinkedIn records participation in the 32nd International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), Sep 2020.Sep 2020