Vahe Musoyan

Vahe Musoyan is a quantitative researcher at Citadel Securities in Miami, Florida, where he has worked since 2013 building and scaling the firm's systematic market-making capabilities across multiple asset classes. Born and raised in Armenia as the son of two engineers, he began coding around age 11, started university in Armenia, transferred to Stanford University, and graduated in 2010 with a degree in computer science. Before Citadel Securities he was a quantitative trader at Getco LLC (2010-2012), then one of the largest market makers in US equities. As a student he was a decorated competitive programmer, winning a gold medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2005 and earning an IMO 2005 appearance for Armenia; in 2022 Business Insider named him among the top 25 rising stars on Wall Street.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. A 2022 Business Insider feature (reprinted by Citadel Securities) states Musoyan 'has spent the past decade building and growing the systematic-trading capabilities' at Citadel Securities and is 'now a lead quantitative researcher', and that he earlier 'joined up with Getco, which at the time was among the largest market makers in US equities'. Both Citadel Securities and Getco/KCG are established quantitative market-making proprietary trading firms, so these are actual quantitative-finance roles, not student programs or competitions. The employment leads in the caller brief (Citadel Securities Quantitative Research; Getco Quantitative Trader) match the sourced record.Sep 28, 2022
• Joined Citadel Securities in 2013 as a quantitative researcher after being approached by the firm; per his own account in the Business Insider profile, a colleague and he built a fully automated market-making effort that was scaled globally across multiple asset classes, which he described as 'one of the largest in its space'.Sep 28, 2022
• Index-only claim: LinkedIn-index enrichment lists current title 'Quantitative Research' at Citadel Securities (Miami, Florida, United States) with '2013– ' tenure, and a past role 'Quantitative Trader' at Getco LLC (2010–2012); this index record is the source for the derived dates and is not independent primary-source confirmation, though the employer/title are corroborated by the 2022 press profile.
• Education: grew up in Armenia, started university there, transferred to Stanford University, and graduated in 2010 with a degree in computer science.Sep 28, 2022
• Olympiad record (informatics, not IMO): gold medal at IOI 2005 (rank 20, 511/600, held in Poland) and bronze medals at IOI 2004 (rank 91) and IOI 2003 (rank 110), representing Armenia. Source: Competitive Programming Hall of Fame, which links his IOI profile and TopCoder handle 'vahem'.Aug 25, 2005
• Named to Business Insider's 2022 list of the top 25 'rising stars of Wall Street' (age 33 at the time), selected from nominees who were based in/around New York City, 35 or under; the feature notes he is regarded among 'the most influential young quants on Wall Street'.Oct 21, 2022
• A September 2005 Hetq article ('Armenia's Youngest Programming Champion') reports Vahe Musoyan of Yerevan won two gold medals at the Informatics Olympiad in Poland (Aug 18-25, 2005) and had taken 1st place among 200 participants in both the individual and team divisions of the 2005 Pan-Armenian Programming Contest; in 2004, at 15, he was the youngest participant and took 5th individual / 2nd team, and wrote the contest's grading and testing software.Sep 12, 2005
• Started coding around age 11, building a flash-card tool in middle school to memorize English vocabulary; the son of two engineers. Factual background per the Business Insider profile.Sep 28, 2022