Wenying Gan

Wenying Gan is a quantitative researcher at Two Sigma Investments in the New York/New Jersey area, sourced from the firm's own quantitative-researcher profile piece and a 2015 Wall Street Journal article that names her a Two Sigma quantitative researcher with a PhD in mathematics from UCLA. She earned a PhD in Mathematics from UCLA (2014) with a dissertation in extremal combinatorics and a B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University (per LinkedIn); she published extremal-combinatorics papers with Benny Sudakov and was affiliated with ETH Zurich's mathematics department around 2013–2014. Earlier technical experience includes research at Nokia Siemens Networks in Beijing (2008–2009) and a summer research workshop at the University of Minnesota (2011). As a student she won a gold medal for China at the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad. Her documented professional career is in quantitative finance at Two Sigma, with prior roles being academic/research rather than additional finance firms.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Wenying Gan's identity is supported by cross-source evidence tying the IMO 2006/China name to the UCLA mathematics PhD and the same individual: Sudakov's ETH page lists 'Wenying Gan, Finance industry, New York (Ph.D. 2014, UCLA)', which reconciles the competition identity with the finance career. Her quantitative-finance role is a real employment position, not a student program: a 2015 Wall Street Journal article names her 'another quantitative researcher at Two Sigma with a Ph.D. in mathematics from University of California, Los Angeles', an American Mathematical Society sectional-meeting program lists her speaker affiliation as 'Wenying Gan, Two Sigma Investments', and the mathclassifieds/MAA career profile interviews her as one of 'Raj, Cristina, Yuting, and Wenying' who 'have worked as quantitative researchers at Two Sigma for several years'. Employer classification: Two Sigma Investments is a systematic/quantitative investment manager (a quantitative hedge fund), so the role is genuine quantitative finance rather than a firm merely named 'quant'. Earlier roles (ETH Zurich/UCLA teaching assistantships, University of Minnesota summer research, Nokia Siemens Networks research in Beijing) are academic or technical and NOT quantitative finance, so they are excluded from this confirmation. Note on evidence quality: LinkedIn-derived role dates and the 'current role' status are index/tool claims and are treated as such, not as independent primary-source confirmation; the firm's own profile page and the WSJ article are the primary corroboration of the Two Sigma quantitative-researcher employment.Mar 4, 2015
• A 2015 Wall Street Journal article describes 'Wenying Gan, another quantitative researcher at Two Sigma with a Ph.D. in mathematics from University of California, Los Angeles' — an independent press identification of the Two Sigma quant-researcher role with the UCLA math PhD.Mar 4, 2015
• Employer classification: Two Sigma Investments is a systematic/quantitative investment manager (quant hedge fund) — the role is a genuine quantitative-finance position, not merely a company named 'quant'.
• Her finance role is corroborated by three independent source types (press in the WSJ, a professional-society program in the AMS listing, and the employer's own editorial profile), so the Two Sigma employment is not resting on a single aggregator or index entry.
• The combined timeline (Peking University B.S. 2006-2010 -> UCLA math PhD 2010-2014 -> Two Sigma from 2014) shows a single continuous research-mathematics path that transitioned directly into quantitative finance upon PhD completion, with no intermediate industry or finance role on record.
• Published extremal-combinatorics research with Benny Sudakov and collaborators, including 'K_{s,t}-saturated bipartite graphs' (arXiv 1402.2471, 2014) with the affiliation 'Department of Mathematics, ETH, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland'.Feb 2014
• PhD in Mathematics, UCLA, 2014; doctoral dissertation titled 'Several Problems in Extremal Combinatorics', advised in combinatorial extremal graph theory — the research identity predates the finance career.Jan 2014
• Sudakov's ETH group page lists 'Wenying Gan, Finance industry, New York (Ph.D. 2014, UCLA)', independently tying the UCLA PhD to a New York finance career.
• An American Mathematical Society sectional-meeting program lists her speaker affiliation as 'Wenying Gan, Two Sigma Investments', again linking the person to the firm from an independent professional source.
• Table-tennis appears twice as a Two Sigma cultural/firm activity (2015 tournament final videos and a 2025 firm social post about the ping-pong tournament), consistent with a long tenure at the firm spanning at least 2015 to 2025.Jan 2015
• Co-authored 'The minimum number of disjoint pairs in set systems and related problems' (arXiv 1305.6715) with Shagnik Das and Benny Sudakov.May 2013
• Won a Gold Medal at the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad representing China (listed CHN3), scoring 31 points across six problems.Jul 2006