Süreyya Emre Kurt

Süreyya Emre Kurt is a computer scientist and software engineer working at the intersection of high-performance computing, sparse matrix/tensor algorithms and data-driven systems. Born in 1991 in Kütahya, Türkiye, he competed for Türkiye at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2007 (silver) and 2009 (gold), and at the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad in the same years (silver 2007, gold 2009). He earned a BS and MS in Computer Science from Bilkent University, an MS from The Ohio State University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Utah, where he was advised by Prof. P. Sadayappan. He worked as a Quantitative Researcher at Xantium Group - Tudor Investment Corporation from 2022 to 2025, following internships at Facebook (2021), Berkeley Lab (2019) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2018). He has been a Software Engineer at Meta since 2025.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Süreyya Emre Kurt held an actual Quantitative Researcher role at Xantium Group - Tudor Investment Corporation (Manhattan, NY) from 2022-10 to 2025-04, per the LinkedIn profile (index-only claim) and corroborated by the University of Utah Kahlert School of Computing page stating he 'defended his Ph.D. thesis and joined Xantium'. Employer classification: Xantium Group states on its own site that it is 'a global multi-strategy investment firm integrating quantitative research with human expertise', trading equities, futures, options, FX, bonds and commodities, founded 2019 within Tudor Group (Tudor Investment Corporation) - i.e. a genuine systematic/quantitative investment firm, not a name-only 'quant' label. Identity is supported by the matching Olympiad record (IMO 2007/2009, Türkiye) and the Utah institutional source. Note that the Xantium team page does not list him by name, so the role rests on the LinkedIn index plus the Utah news line, not an independent Xantium roster; the qualitative classification of the employer is primary-source.Sep 2026
• Xantium Group is itself a quantitative investment firm, not a name-only 'quant' firm: its own site describes it as 'a global multi-strategy investment firm integrating quantitative research with human expertise,' trading equities, futures, options, FX, bonds and commodities, founded 2019 as part of Tudor Group (Tudor Investment Corporation), 200+ people across London/New York/Salt Lake City/Abu Dhabi/San Francisco.Sep 2026
• Career timeline per LinkedIn: Software Engineer at Meta (2025-present, Sunnyvale); Quantitative Researcher at Xantium Group - Tudor Investment Corporation (2022-2025, Manhattan, NY); PhD software-engineering internship at Facebook (2021); summer research internship at Berkeley Lab (2019); summer research internship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2018).Apr 2025
• Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah (2019-2022), advised by Prof. P. Sadayappan; the Kahlert School of Computing news page states he 'defended his Ph.D. thesis and joined Xantium' - an institutional, non-LinkedIn source tying the Utah doctorate directly to the Xantium role.May 2022
• Holds four CS degrees: BS and MS from Bilkent University (2009-2014, 2014-2016), MS from The Ohio State University (2016-2019), PhD from University of Utah (2019-2022).May 2022
• Olympiad record for Türkiye: gold at IMO 2009 and BMO 2009, silver at IMO 2007 and BMO 2007 - a four-medal high-school math record that predates all listed degrees.Jul 2009
• Public 49-minute Turkish-language interview 'Matematik, Finans ve Facebook Kariyeri' (published 2025-11-30, ~682 views) presented by Kesişen Yollar summarizes the career arc: HPC/sparse-matrix research -> Xantium quantitative research -> Meta software engineering, and independently corroborates the employers and olympiad medals.Nov 30, 2025
• The Facebook (2021), Berkeley Lab (2019) and PNNL (2018) positions are research/software-engineering internships, not quantitative-finance roles; only the Xantium role is quantitative.Jan 2025
• Published HPC/sparse-matrix research with the Sadayappan group: e.g. RASSM (residue-based acceleration of sparse matrix-vector multiplication, ACM, 2024) and prior PACT '22 / SC work on sparse matrix and tensor computations, indicating a sustained high-performance-computing publication record spanning his PhD.Aug 2024
• LinkedIn headline listed as 'SWE @ Monetization' at Meta, i.e. the current role is a product software-engineering position, not a quantitative-finance one.Sep 2026
• Google Scholar profile (verified email at meta.com) lists graph algorithms and high-performance computing as research areas, consistent with the HPC/sparse-matrix publication record.Sep 2026
• Bilkent master's thesis titled roughly 'Finding hidden hierarchy in social networks' (Sosyal ağlarda gizli hiyerarşiyi bulma), Bilkent University Computer Engineering.Jun 2016