Tamar Peikrishvili

Tamar Peikrishvili is a Georgian undergraduate at MIT (class of 2028) studying computer science and mathematics. She represented Georgia at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2023, winning a bronze medal, and at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad in 2022, 2023 and 2024, winning silver each time. At MIT she has worked as an undergraduate researcher (a world-building/digital-fabrication project and the MIT Media Lab), as a mathematics tutor at the MIT Math Learning Center, and has held an ML research internship at ENS Lyon. Her listed roles at Jane Street are student programs (FTTP and INSIGHT), not employment. Her most recently listed role is a Machine Learning Intern at TBC (TBC Bank), which is index-sourced and not independently confirmed.

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• Quant employment verification: NOT CONFIRMED. No actual past or present role or internship at a quantitative investment, trading, market-making, hedge-fund or systematic-trading firm is supported by primary sources. Both Jane Street items on the profile are student programs, not employment. Jane Street's own FTTP page describes a multi-day program where 'a select group of first-year undergraduates will learn more about Jane Street's innovative trading and technology models through a series of classes and a team-based mock trading simulation game', and its INSIGHT page describes a 'multi-day program' inviting women, transgender and gender-expansive individuals 'to learn about the roles within our firm'. Neither is an internship or a paid trading/research role. Jane Street itself is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider, so its programs are quant-sector student activities, but they do not meet the CONFIRMED bar, which requires an actual role or internship. The person's actual internship experience sits outside quant finance: ML Research Intern at ENS Lyon (statistics/ML research) and a listed Machine Learning Intern at TBC (TBC Bank, Georgia's largest commercial bank, which is not a quantitative trading firm). Identity is supported: the LinkedIn profile whose index record carries these roles states 'CS and Math @MIT; IMO bronze and EGMO silver medalist', matching the Georgia IMO 2023 contestant.Sep 17, 2026
• Three-time EGMO silver medalist for Georgia - 28 points at EGMO 2023, 22 points at EGMO 2022 and 26 points at EGMO 2024 (competing as Georgia's Contestant 1) - a consistent three-year silver run that makes her one of Georgia's most decorated female olympiad mathematicians of that cohort.Apr 2024
• Represented Georgia at the International Mathematical Olympiad 2023 and won a bronze medal, ranked 297th with 18 points (P1 7, P2 1, P3 0, P4 7, P5 3, P6 0), per the official IMO results page.Jul 2023
• Her listed Machine Learning Intern role at TBC (TBC Bank), dated 2026-, is index-only (a LinkedIn index record) and unconfirmed by any TBC or press source; TBC describes itself as 'a technology driven company' but is a commercial bank, not a quantitative trading or market-making firm.Jan 2026
• Took part in the Jane Street FTTP in 2025 and the Jane Street INSIGHT program in August 2025; both are selective multi-day student programs run by a quantitative trading firm, and both sit alongside a first-year university enrolment - the placement pattern of a short program, not an internship.Aug 2025
• Completed a research internship at Ecole normale superieure de Lyon (2025) under Prof. Aurelien Garivier on risk-aware reinforcement learning and risk-sensitive planning - her strongest research credential and squarely in machine learning, not quantitative trading.Jun 2025
• Named on the MIT Mathematics Learning Center tutor roster as "Tamar Peikrishvili, '28", tutoring 18.01, 18.01A, 18.01L, 18.02, 18.022, 18.02A, 18.600, 18.650 and 18.C06 - a public MIT department page that independently confirms her MIT affiliation and class year.Sep 2025
• Undergraduate research at MIT splits into two threads: a world-building/digital-fabrication project developing digital avatars activated by motion tracking, and MIT Media Lab work designing algorithms to quantify neuromechanical effects from animal data collected via an implantable system - one graphics/fabrication, one computational biomechanics.Jan 2025
• Competes in algorithmic programming on Codeforces as 'tamarip' (name field 'Tamar Peikrishvili', Tbilisi, from Komarovi N199), rating 1315, max 1402 (Specialist) - a materially lower tier than her olympiad record, indicating olympiad rather than algorithmic-contest specialization.Sep 2026
• Named a finalist in the 'Discovery in the New Generation' category of the 2024 Grace Hopper Tech Awards in Georgia - the only non-olympiad award listing found, and national recognition for emerging Georgian women in technology.Jun 2024
• Secondary schooling at Komarovi Campus School (Tbilisi) 2018-2024, the Georgian physics-mathematics school that produced much of the national olympiad squad, before starting at MIT in 2024.Jun 2024
• Served as Freshman Representative and Executive in MIT's International Students Association (2024-2025), early campus leadership alongside coursework.Jan 2025