Samuel Kutin

Samuel A. Kutin is a mathematician and theoretical computer scientist. He represented the United States at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1988 and 1989, earning a silver medal both years. He holds an AB in Mathematics from Harvard University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Chicago. He worked as Research Staff at the Center for Communications Research (IDA/CCR-P) in Princeton, New Jersey, and as Research Staff at Edgestream Partners, L.P., a fully-systematic quantitative investment manager. He is currently Deputy Director at IDA/CCR-P, and his published research centers on quantum query complexity and quantum computing.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. LinkedIn work history lists 'Research Staff at Edgestream Partners, L.P.' (a professional research role, not a student program) and Edgestream Partners, L.P. (domain edgestreamlp.com) is demonstrably a systematic quantitative manager: its own description states it has run 'fully-systematic absolute-return investment management' since 2003 with 'mathematical models guide trading within a diversified portfolio of domestic and international liquid financial instruments,' and it is registered with the SEC as an Investment Advisor and with the CFTC/NFA as a Commodity Pool Operator and Commodity Trading Advisor. Employer classification: confirmed quantitative/systematic asset manager. Identity is supported by a coherent shared context (Princeton NJ location; Harvard/Chicago math-CS; same person at IDA/CCR-P). Caveat: the specific dates 2011-07 to 2013-02 for the Edgestream role come only from a caller-provided index lead, not from any primary source read in this run, so they are index-only and unverified.Sep 17, 2026
• Current role: Deputy Director at IDA/CCR-P (Institute for Defense Analyses, Center for Communications Research - Princeton), Princeton, New Jersey; LinkedIn lists no start date, so none should be stated.
• Represented the United States at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1988 and 1989, winning a silver medal both years (IMO official contestant page, Samuel A. Kutin).
• Earned an AB in Mathematics from Harvard University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Chicago (LinkedIn education section).
• Research spans quantum query complexity: authored 'A quantum lower bound for the collision problem' (2003); also worked on quantum carry-lookahead adders, distributed quantum computing, and the quantum black-box complexity of majority.Apr 2003
• Beyond Edgestream Partners, no bank, asset-manager, energy-trading, or crypto-trading employer appears in his LinkedIn work history or the searched public record; Edgestream is his only identified quantitative-finance employer.
• Doctoral-era work on 'Almost-everywhere algorithmic stability and generalization error' (arXiv:1301.0579) was co-authored with Nathan Srebro, a learning-theory researcher, placing his Chicago CS work in a maths/ML learning-theory pairing.Aug 2002
• IMO 1989: silver medal, rank 21, 37 points (7,7,2,7,7,7); an upward trajectory, rank 47 to rank 21 across his two appearances.Jul 1989
• IMO 1988: silver medal, overall rank 47, 26 points; a strong P4/P5/P6 line (7,7,1) marred by a weak P3 (1), so the hardest geometry problem was the differentiator.Jul 1988
• LinkedIn's work-history summary also lists Research Staff at IDA/CCR-P (the same Center for Communications Research - Princeton), a research stint preceding the Deputy Director title.
• His quantum-computing output (e.g. the logarithmic-depth quantum carry-lookahead adder) sits in the same research lineage as the Microsoft Research quantum group, a theoretical-CS career spanning government research and industry.
• Second place at the 2019 MoMath Masters Tournament (listed as 'Sandy Kutin'), showing continued activity in competitive mathematics long after college.Apr 2019