Thomas Swayze

Thomas Swayze is a quantitative researcher at Aquatic Capital Management, the hedge fund founded by former Citadel Global Quantitative Strategies head Jonathan Graham. He represented the United States at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2012 (gold medal, rank 11) and 2013 (silver medal, rank 57). He studied mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University (bachelor's and master's degrees), where he was named a Putnam Fellow in the 2016 William Lowell Putnam Competition and was a member of CMU's fifth-place team in 2015. He previously worked as a teaching assistant at Carnegie Mellon and as a Math Olympiad Summer Program instructor for the Mathematical Association of America.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Thomas Swayze holds the role of Quantitative Researcher at Aquatic Capital Management, which is a genuine quantitative hedge fund founded by Jonathan Graham, the former head of Citadel's Global Quantitative Strategies business, and registered as an investment adviser (Form ADV). The employment claim comes from LinkedIn profile enrichment (index-level data, corroborated by the public LinkedIn headline returned in Google results) rather than an independent primary-source confirmation. Identity is supported: the same profile lists Canyon Crest Academy (San Diego), Carnegie Mellon mathematics degrees, and the profile matches the US IMO 2012/2013 competitor of the same name. No separate student program is being counted as employment.Oct 2019
• Aquatic Capital Management is a quantitative/algorithmic hedge fund, not merely a firm whose name contains 'quant': its site and press describe a research-and-development hedge fund founded by ex-Citadel Global Quantitative Strategies head Jonathan Graham, and it files as an investment adviser, classifying the employer as squarely within quantitative investment.2019
• Named a Putnam Fellow in the 2016 William Lowell Putnam Competition (one of the top five scorers nationally) as a CMU mathematical sciences senior, the highest individual honor in the premier North American undergraduate math contest.Dec 2016
• Represented the USA at the 2012 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a gold medal with 35 points (rank 11); the performance identifies him among the top high-school mathematicians in the country that year.Jul 2012
• Returned to the US IMO team in 2013, winning a silver medal (29 points, rank 57), showing sustained top-tier competition performance across two years rather than a single appearance.Jul 2013
• Was a sophomore mathematical sciences major on Carnegie Mellon's three-person Putnam team that placed fifth in the 2015 competition, indicating early and consistent contest involvement during his undergraduate years.Apr 2015
• Attended Canyon Crest Academy in San Diego, where local coverage documented his perfect score on the USA Mathematical Olympiad selection process as a junior; this school tie corroborates the California origin of the IMO competitor.May 2012
• Earned both bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, the institution where his competition results and Putnam fellowship were reported.
• Worked as a Math Olympiad Summer Program Instructor for the Mathematical Association of America and as a Teaching Assistant at Carnegie Mellon, both instructional rather than quantitative-finance roles, but evidence of continued involvement in olympiad mathematics after competing.
• Holds a GitHub account (teswayze) tied to the same name; checked for corroborating employer/site signals, but the account shows no public activity strong enough to verify ownership, so no github_url is asserted.