Shashwat Chandra

Shashwat Chandra is a competitive programmer and computer scientist from India. He represented India at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2020, winning a bronze medal. He studied Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS), graduating in 2025, and has done theoretical computer science research on distributed computing with Yi-Jun Chang (NUS), co-winning the Best Student Paper Award at ACM PODC 2024. He worked in quantitative finance (research intern, trading intern, then analyst roles), interned as a Machine Learning Engineer at ByteDance, and began a Master of Science in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University. His personal site states that he left his quant trading role to pivot to AI research, with interests in post-training for reasoning and interpretability.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. The subject has an actual quantitative-finance role and internships: Quantitative Research Analyst at Qube Research & Technologies (start ~July 2025) and Quantitative Research Intern at Jump Trading Group (Jun-Aug 2024) and Quantitative Trading Intern at Optiver (May-Jul 2023, Amsterdam), per his LinkedIn profile experience section (index-derived). Identity is supported by the IOI official stats page (bronze, IOI 2020, India) and his personal site shashwatchandra.com, which cross-links the same LinkedIn, GitHub and X accounts and states he 'recently left my quant trading role'. Employer classification: Qube Research & Technologies is a London-headquartered global quantitative and systematic investment manager (hedge fund) spun out of Credit Suisse; Jump Trading is a proprietary algorithmic/high-frequency trading firm; Optiver is a market maker. All three are genuine quantitative-finance employers, not name coincidences. Caveat: role details come from the LinkedIn-derived index, not independent primary confirmation; the personal site independently corroborates that he held a quant trading role.Jul 2025
• His personal website states he 'recently left my quant trading role to pivot to AI research', with stated interests in post-training for reasoning and interpretability — an explicit, self-declared career transition, not an inference.Sep 2025
• Represented India at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2020 and won a bronze medal with a score of 311.73; the IOI statistics record lists him under the India delegation for 2020.Sep 1, 2020
• Listed as Quantitative Research Analyst at Qube Research & Technologies from ~July 2025 (index-derived from his LinkedIn experience section); concurrently enrolled in the CMU MSML program, which suggests the role and study overlap or the role is pre-CMU.Jul 2025
• Interned as a Quantitative Research Intern at Jump Trading Group, June-August 2024 — a genuine internship at a proprietary algorithmic trading firm.Jun 2024
• Won the Best Student Paper Award at ACM PODC 2024 (Nantes) for distributed-computing research at NUS, announced by NUS Computing alongside co-author Bui Hong Duc.Jun 2024
• Interned as a Quantitative Trading Intern at Optiver in Amsterdam, May-July 2023 — a market-making firm; the location being Amsterdam indicates an on-site internship rather than a competition or insight programme.May 2023
• Identity is corroborated by a cross-linked account loop: the personal site shashwatchandra.com links the LinkedIn /in/shashwatchan, GitHub shashwatchan and X @shashwatchan, and the IOI stats page independently names him as the IOI 2020 India contestant — establishing these accounts as the same person.Sep 2020
• Enrolled in the Master of Science in Machine Learning (MSML) at Carnegie Mellon University, per his LinkedIn headline 'MSML @ CMU'; this follows a Computer Science bachelor's at NUS (2021-2025).Aug 2025
• Did theoretical computer science research as an NUS undergraduate advised by Yi-Jun Chang, producing EPSRC/arXiv work including 'Fast Broadcast in Highly Connected Networks' (arXiv 2404.12930) and a PODC 2024 paper.Apr 2024
• Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a British quantitative investment management firm headquartered in London that originated inside Credit Suisse and grew to a multistrategy hedge fund with tens of billions in assets — classification confirms it is a genuine quantitative-finance employer.Jan 2024
• Worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at ByteDance, evidenced in part by co-authorship of 'Token Boosting for Robust Self-Supervised Visual Transformer Pre-Training' (CVPR 2023) with ByteDance-affiliated authors including Yu Qiao and Mike Zheng Shou.Jun 2023