Shyam Narayanan

Shyam Narayanan is a quantitative researcher and theoretical computer scientist. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from MIT (2019-2024) and an A.B./A.M. in Mathematics & Statistics from Harvard (2015-2019). He represented the United States at the 2015 International Mathematical Olympiad, winning a gold medal. His published research covers distribution testing, clustering, differential privacy, robust statistics and learning quantum Hamiltonians (h-index 18 on Google Scholar). His work history, per LinkedIn profile data, includes quantitative research internships at Citadel Securities (2023) and Jump Trading (2019), a trading internship at 5 Rings Capital (2017), research internships at Google and Microsoft, and a current Quantitative Researcher role at Citadel Securities (2024-).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. The enrichment index lists actual quantitative roles and internships - Quantitative Researcher at Citadel Securities (2024-), Quantitative Research Intern at Citadel Securities (2023), Quantitative Research Intern at Jump Trading (2019), and Trading Intern at 5 Rings Capital (2017). Employer classification: Citadel Securities is a global market maker, Jump Trading is a proprietary/algorithmic trading firm, and 5 Rings Capital is a proprietary trading firm - all operate in quantitative finance. Identity is supported by the shared LinkedIn handle cross-linking the MIT CS PhD, Harvard degree and IMO-adjacent profile. Caveat: the role evidence is LinkedIn-profile-derived (the subject's own stated employment) and was not independently confirmed by a company or third-party source in this run.
• Index-derived (LinkedIn, not independent primary confirmation): Quantitative Researcher at Citadel Securities, Miami, from 2024, per the enrichment index; treat as the profile's own stated role pending a company-side source.Aug 2024
• Namesake disambiguation: the IMO competitor, the MIT/Harvard researcher, and the Citadel quantitative researcher share one identity through the LinkedIn handle shyamsnarayanan, which links MIT PhD CS, Harvard, Blue Valley West HS, Jump Trading and Citadel Securities - three independent registries agreeing.
• IMO 2015 gold medalist (United States team): contestant result page shows rank 26, 95.7 percentile, 28 points, award G.Jul 2015
• MIT PhD thesis 'Cluster Analysis in High Dimensions: Robustness, Privacy, and Beyond' (published 2024-05) completes his MIT Computer Science doctorate.May 2024
• Index-derived (LinkedIn): Quantitative Research Intern at Citadel Securities, Chicago, 2023.Jun 2023
• Index-derived (LinkedIn): Quantitative Research Intern at Jump Trading, Chicago, 2019, working on prediction algorithms for Hidden Markov Modeling.Jan 2019
• Index-derived (LinkedIn): Trading Intern at 5 Rings Capital, 2017, analyzing time series of market prices and developing mock-trading algorithms/strategies.Jun 2017
• arXiv author page lists a large body of papers in distribution testing, clustering, differential privacy and quantum Hamiltonian learning; ORCID 0000-0001-7601-1644.
• MIT PRIMES high-school research program alumnus (pre-college); his testimonial page describes competition background (MATHCOUNTS, USAMO) leading into number-theory research.2015
• Google Scholar profile reports 928 citations, h-index 18, i10-index 26.
• Index-derived (LinkedIn): research internships at Google (2021-2023) and Microsoft (2022), and Student Researcher at Harvard PRISE (2018, supervised by Jelani Nelson) - non-quant research roles.2018