Ruizhou Yang

Ruizhou (Steven) Yang is a Canadian mathematics olympiad medalist (IMO 2016 bronze, 2017 honourable mention) who studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge and completed a Master of Finance (financial engineering) at MIT in 2023. He has worked in quantitative trading since 2019, with internships at Jane Street, Five Rings and Tower Research Capital, a trader role at IMC Trading in 2023, and has been a Trader at Maven Securities in Chicago since 2024.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Yang has actual past trading roles/internships at quantitative trading firms, not just student programs: Quant Trading Intern at Five Rings LLC (2021), Summer Intern (Quant Trading Intern, Aperio team) at Tower Research Capital (2022), Trader at IMC Trading (2023) and, since 2024, Trader at Maven Securities, plus a 2019 Trading Intern stint at Jane Street. Employer classification from primary sources: Maven Securities self-describes as a proprietary trading firm allocating capital across discretionary, systematic and market-making strategies (mavensecurities.com); Five Rings describes itself as a proprietary trading firm with a Quantitative Trading team (fiverings.com); Tower Research Capital is a quantitative trading firm (tower-research.com / Wikipedia); IMC and Jane Street are proprietary trading firms/market makers. Role evidence for these positions is LinkedIn-profile based (self-reported work history, surfaced via profile enrichment); identity is corroborated independently by the CMS 2017 Canadian IMO team bio (email [contact omitted]) and the MIT 2023 commencement programme listing 'Ruizhou Yang' among Master of Finance graduates. Earlier CDH Investments (2020, PE/asset management) and China Merchants Securities (2018, brokerage) internships are finance but not quantitative trading.Sep 2026
• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Yang has actual past trading roles/internships at quantitative trading firms, not just student programs: Quant Trading Intern at Five Rings LLC (2021), Summer Intern (Quant Trading Intern, Aperio team) at Tower Research Capital (2022), Trader at IMC Trading (2023) and, since 2024, Trader at Maven Securities, plus a 2019 Trading Intern stint at Jane Street. Employer classification from primary sources: Maven Securities self-describes as a proprietary trading firm allocating capital across discretionary, systematic and market-making strategies (mavensecurities.com); Five Rings describes itself as a proprietary trading firm with a Quantitative Trading team (fiverings.com); Tower Research Capital is a quantitative trading firm (tower-research.com / Wikipedia); IMC and Jane Street are proprietary trading firms/market makers. Role evidence for these positions is LinkedIn-profile based (self-reported work history, surfaced via profile enrichment); identity is corroborated independently by the CMS 2017 Canadian IMO team bio (email [contact omitted]) and the MIT 2023 commencement programme listing 'Ruizhou Yang' among Master of Finance graduates. Earlier CDH Investments (2020, PE/asset management) and China Merchants Securities (2018, brokerage) internships are finance but not quantitative trading.
• Named among Master of Finance graduates in the MIT 2023 Commencement programme (Sloan School of Management, Course XV-F), confirming the MIT MSc Finance completion in February 2023.Jun 2023
• Work history shows a 'Non Compete' entry at IMC Trading for the second half of 2023 - a standard post-employment garden-leave label, i.e. a period of non-compete rather than a separate role - between his IMC trader stint and his 2024 move to Maven Securities.2023
• Born in Changchun, China; moved to Canada in 2013 with his parents and attended University Hill Secondary School in Vancouver, BC, where he was in grade 12 in 2017.Jun 2017
• CMS 2017 IMO team bio lists his contact as [contact omitted], and he is listed under the name 'Ruizhou Yang' as Contestant 2 for Canada.Jun 2017
• Attended University Hill Secondary School (Vancouver, BC); placed as a Euclid Contest honourable mention in 2015 and 2016 and as a Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge / Sun Life Financial CMC award winner, per CEMC result publications.2016