Silviu Predoiu

Silviu Predoiu is a quantitative researcher working in institutional crypto/digital-asset trading. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Finance from Carnegie Mellon University and an MA in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh, and he represented Romania at the 1998 International Mathematical Olympiad (bronze medal). His industry career spans quantitative analysis at Citi, quantitative research at market-maker Susquehanna International Group (SIG), and, most recently, senior quantitative research at Talos.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. The person (Silviu Predoiu, PhD Mathematical Finance, CMU; IMO 1998 Romania) has an actual quantitative-finance employment record, not merely competitions or student programs: an index-sourced LinkedIn/people record (and corroborating snippets) shows Quantitative Analysis Associate at Citi (2011-2014), Quantitative Researcher at Susquehanna International Group (2014-2021), and Senior Quantitative Researcher at Talos (2022-present). Employer classification: Citi is a global bank whose Institutional Clients Group runs quantitative analysis/risk/modeling functions; SIG is a global quantitative proprietary trading firm and options market maker (confirmed by its own site and third-party firm profiles); Talos is an institutional digital-asset (crypto) trading-technology and trading platform. All three operate in quantitative finance; none rests on a name containing 'quant' alone. The current Talos role is additionally corroborated by the independent Talos Quantitative Research team listing, which shows his name and title. Caveat: the Citi and SIG dates and titles come from an index/aggregator (LinkedIn-derived) and were not confirmed on a Citi or SIG primary page; the identity linkage across employers is supported by the matching CMU mathematical-finance PhD and the Talos team-page listing.
• CMU PhD thesis 'Optimal Execution in a General One-Sided Limit-Order Book and Endogenous Dynamic Completeness of Financial Models'; the related paper with Gennady Shaikhet and Steven Shreve appeared in the SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics (published 2011-03-09).Mar 9, 2011
• PhD in Mathematical Finance from Carnegie Mellon University and an MA in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh, per his LinkedIn profile (index-sourced).
• Represented Romania at the 39th IMO (1998), scoring 19 points and winning a Bronze medal (rank 145).Jul 1998
• Listed on the Talos Quantitative Research team page as 'Senior Quantitative Research' alongside Principal Marco Marchioro, corroborating the current Talos role in a second, independent (company-derived) source.
• Index-only claim: LinkedIn-derived records (role history and education) are treated as index/aggregator data, not as independent primary-source confirmation; the Talos Quantitative Research team listing is the one non-LinkedIn corroboration of a named role found.
• Education ordering: an MA in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh followed by a PhD in Mathematical Finance at Carnegie Mellon is the standard Pittsburgh-to-CMU path; both schools are in Pittsburgh and bracket the 1998 IMO by roughly a decade, consistent with a late-1990s undergraduate start.
• Location consistency: the Talos role lists Greater Philadelphia, and Citi (NY HQ) and SIG (Bala-Cynwyd/Philadelphia) are broadly consistent with a Philadelphia-area base across his career; the Pittsburgh CMU years precede the industry roles.