Vahe Poladian

Alpha driven high participation automated trading in equities and fixed income globally, ~15 years of experience. Mathematics and Economics (BA); Computer Science (BA, MS, PhD). 4 time medalist at the International Math Olympiad (Team Armenia), top-30 in the ACM Collegiate Programming Contest Finals.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED.Sep 17, 2026
• Identity is corroborated across independent surfaces: his own CMU CS PhD page (cs.cmu.edu/~poladian) shows him as a doctoral student under Mary Shaw and David Garlan on project Aura; the CMU Software Engineering PhD alumni bio lists Vahe Poladian (CS 2008) as 'Quantitative Researcher, Citadel Securities'; and the same person appears on Macalester College pages as 'Vahe Poladian '99 of Yerevan, Armenia'. The academic identity (Armenian IMO medalist, Macalester, CMU CS PhD) and the quant-employer chain align on one person.Sep 17, 2026
• Employer classification (independent of the subject's own profile): Citadel Securities and Hudson River Trading are electronic market makers / high-frequency trading firms, and Deutsche Bank's equity proprietary-trading and statistical-arbitrage desks are quantitative trading businesses - so the roles are genuinely quantitative finance, not merely 'quant'-named companies.Sep 17, 2026
• FINRA BrokerCheck record CRD# 5542085 for 'VAHE POLADIAN / VAHE V POLADYAN' is registered at JUMP TRADING, LLC (not Citadel Securities); the name variant and different employer mean this is a separate individual and it is NOT used to confirm the subject's employment.Sep 17, 2026
• Index/tool-derived role history (LinkedIn enrichment, label as index-derived, not independent primary confirmation) places him at Citadel Securities (Senior Quant Team Lead 2014-2021; then a 24-month non-compete 2021-2023), Hudson River Trading (Quantitative Strategies 2011-2014), and Deutsche Bank (equities proprietary trading / statistical arbitrage, 2008-2011, plus a 2006 summer role). These employer names are corroborated by the CMU alumni bio naming Citadel Securities, but the individual date spans rest on the LinkedIn/enrichment index alone.Sep 17, 2026
• Four-time IMO medalist for Armenia: Bronze 1992 (16 pts), Silver 1993 (25 pts), Bronze 1994 (132 rank), Silver 1995 (34 pts) - the consistent national-team record that anchors the identity.Sep 17, 2026
• Public campaign-donor lookup lists 'POLADIAN, VAHE, CHICAGO, IL 60610 - CITADEL SECURITIES, FINANCIAL ANALYST', an independent (self-reported) public record placing him at Citadel Securities in Chicago with a financial-analyst classification.Sep 17, 2026
• His LinkedIn headline cites being a top-30 finisher at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, alongside the 4-time IMO medal - a competitive-programming signal consistent with his later quantitative trading career.Sep 17, 2026
• PhD thesis 'Tailoring Configuration to User's Tasks under Uncertainty' (CMU), research at the intersection of software engineering and ubiquitous computing, with 25+ publications cited over 560 times on ResearchGate.Sep 17, 2026
• Macalester Today (May 1996) lists 'Vahe Poladian '99 of Yerevan, Armenia' ranked 152nd of 2,468 - documentary evidence of his Armenian origin and Macalester Class of 1999.Sep 17, 2026
• Current location per LinkedIn/enrichment is Hilo, Hawaii, United States; his current employer is described only as an unnamed global proprietary HFT firm (Head of a large-scale HFT quant trading business, from 2023), so current employment rests on the index/self-report and cannot be independently confirmed.Sep 17, 2026
• Co-authored resource-adaptive / ubiquitous-computing research (e.g. Balan, Poladian, Garlan, Satyanarayanan, CMU-CS-05-198; IPDPS 2008) - a publications record under his CMU affiliation.Sep 17, 2026