Sherman Yip

Quantitative Research Analyst at Citadel Securities (London); Cambridge MMath/BA Mathematics; IMO 2020 Bronze Medallist for the UK.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Sherman Yip's LinkedIn profile lists a current Quantitative Research Analyst role at Citadel Securities (from 2025) and a Quantitative Research Analyst Internship at Citadel Securities (2024; profile description 'Developed predictive models for option volatility'), a Summer Analyst (Quantitative Strategist, Equities One Delta Systematic Trading) internship at Goldman Sachs (2023), and an Internship at Quantbot Technologies LP (2022; dataset analysis and refactoring production async scripts). These are actual employment/internship roles, not student programs. Employer classification: Citadel Securities (citadelsecurities.com) is a market maker; Quantbot Technologies LP (quantbot.com, Investment Management) is a quantitative investment firm; Goldman Sachs' Equities One Delta Systematic Trading desk is systematic trading. AXIS Capital (Work Experience, 2019) is a specialty insurance/reinsurance group and BTT Consulting (Winter Intern, 2021-22) was a green-finance consulting report role - neither is quantitative finance. Identity is supported: the LinkedIn profile (Cambridge Mathematics, Tonbridge School) matches the IMO 2020 United Kingdom team contestant 'Sherman Yip' and Tonbridge's own 2023 blog naming 'Sherman Yip, a 2021 leaver currently reading Maths at Trinity College, Cambridge'. Caveat: employment evidence is derived from the LinkedIn profile via a professional index/provider and is NOT independently corroborated by press or a primary company source; no independent confirmation of the Citadel/Goldman roles was found.Jun 1, 2024
• Represented the United Kingdom at IMO 2020 (St Petersburg virtual), earning a Bronze Medal - rank 162, 73.9%, 23 points (P1 7, P2 2, P3 0, P4 7, P5 7, P6 0) on a UK team that placed 9th. Team leaders Dominic Yeo and Kasia Warburton.Sep 1, 2020
• Goldman Sachs 'Summer Analyst' (2023) was on the Equities One Delta Systematic Trading desk as a Quantitative Strategist, developing/analysing trading strategies on European stocks and doing database-migration production code - a systematic-trading internship, distinct from a generalist banking summer analyst role.Jun 1, 2023
• Two of the three quantitative roles are in the same firm: he interned at Citadel Securities (2024) then returned as a full Quantitative Research Analyst (2025), suggesting a convert-or-return dynamic; the exact 2025 month of the full-time start is not stated on the profile (index shows 2025).Sep 1, 2025
• Tonbridge School's own 2023 blog describes 'Sherman Yip, a 2021 leaver currently reading Maths at Trinity College, Cambridge' - naming the specific Cambridge college (Trinity) beyond the LinkedIn 'University of Cambridge', and fixing his school-leaving year as 2021.Jun 15, 2023
• Quantbot Technologies LP (quantbot.com) is listed as an Investment Management firm, corroborating that his 2022 internship was at a quantitative investment firm rather than a namesake 'quiz-bot' or education entity.Sep 17, 2026
• Education timeline from LinkedIn: MMath Mathematics, University of Cambridge (2024-2025) and BA Mathematics, University of Cambridge (2021-2024), preceded by Tonbridge School (2017-2021). The 2021 school-leaving year matches both the Tonbridge blog and the IMO 2020 appearance.Jan 1, 2025
• Quantbot Technologies LP internship (2022) was in Hong Kong, and the BTT Consulting winter internship (2021-22) was also in Hong Kong - both predate his Cambridge degree and sit between Tonbridge and university, consistent with a Hong Kong-linked family/background alongside UK schooling.Jul 1, 2022
• AXIS Capital 'Work Experience' (2019) was at a specialty insurance/reinsurance group (Bermuda-domiciled, Lloyd's syndicates) - the profile describes exposure to Claims, Actuarial, Underwriting and Risk, i.e. an insurance insight placement, not a quantitative finance role.Jun 1, 2019
• BTT Consulting Limited winter internship (2021-22) produced a report on Green Finance/green bonds and ~30 slides on green-finance regulation and data analysis - a consulting/research placement, not a trading or quant role.Dec 1, 2021
• The IMO results page for contestant id 29996 now returns 'The requested page does not exist', but the same id is linked from the UK's IMO 2020 team page as 'Sherman Yip' - so the identity rests on the team-page roster rather than a live individual profile page.Sep 1, 2020
• No GitHub account, X/Twitter handle, personal website or blog could be verified for this individual; attempts via name search returned only namesakes (other 'Sherman Yip' professionals) and no code/social footprint.Sep 17, 2026