Yegor Klochkov

Yegor Klochkov is a statistician and machine-learning researcher. He represented Kazakhstan at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2008 and 2009 and won the 2009 Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad and Silk Road Mathematics Olympiad as a Pavlodar schoolboy. He completed an MS in Applied Mathematics at MIPT (2009-2015) and a PhD in Statistics at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (2015-2019), then was a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge (2019-2022) and a Machine Learning Researcher at ByteDance in London (2022-2025). As of 2025 his LinkedIn lists the role of Senior Member of Research Staff at The Voleon Group, a systematic machine-learning-driven investment manager.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. LinkedIn profile lists a current role as Senior Member of Research Staff at The Voleon Group (2025-) and the caller lead notes a 2025-05 to 2025-11 stint in the same title; The Voleon Group is a systematic, machine-learning-driven investment manager (hedge fund), i.e. a quantitative investment firm — so this is an actual quant-finance research role, not a student program. Earlier employers (ByteDance ML Researcher, University of Cambridge Research Associate, Humboldt doctoral student, Yandex intern developer) are research/engineering, not quant trading.
• Kazinform (Kazakh state news agency), 11 March 2009: 'Yegor Klochkov, a schoolboy from Pavlodar town became the winner of the XXI Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad and VIII Mathematics Olympiad Silk Road.'Mar 11, 2009
• Role sequence is research-scientist, not trader: Doctoral Student (Humboldt, 2015-2019) -> Research Associate (University of Cambridge, 2019-2022) -> Machine Learning Researcher (ByteDance, London, 2022-2025) -> Senior Member of Research Staff (The Voleon Group, 2025-), i.e. ~10 years in academic/industry ML research before the quant-firm move.
• Co-authored 'Robustifying Markowitz' (arXiv 2212.13996, Journal of Econometrics 2023) — a portfolio-optimization paper directly in the quantitative-investment literature; authorship predates the Voleon role.Dec 2022
• Matches the caller-stated Olympiad identity (Kazakhstan, IMO 2008 and 2009) in nationality, first name and the mathematics-competition trajectory; the same name appears across IMO result listings, a Humboldt statistics PhD and the Voleon role, giving a consistent single profile.
• Undergraduate/master's training at MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), MS Applied Mathematics 2009-2015, followed by a Statistics PhD at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin 2015-2019 — a pure math/stats pipeline rather than a finance degree.2015
• Listed at the Janeway Institute for Economics, University of Cambridge as 'Dr Yegor Klochkov', tying the Cambridge Research Associate period (2019-2022) to the Faculty of Economics.
• ResearchGate profile (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin) shows 17 publications and ~132 citations with expertise in time series analysis, statistical modeling and time series econometrics — a statistics/econometrics publication base adjacent to quantitative finance.
• Co-authored 'Robust k-means clustering for distributions with two moments' (Annals of Statistics, vol. 49 issue 4, 2021; arXiv 2002.02339) — foundational statistics work from the Cambridge/Humboldt period.Feb 2020
• Earliest listed industry role is Intern developer at Yandex (Moscow, 2012-2013, ~1 year) while still at MIPT — an engineering internship, not finance.2012
• LinkedIn follower/connection counts (301 connections, 308 followers) show a low public social footprint — consistent with a research scientist rather than a public-facing figure.