Yikuan Li

Canadian IOI medalist (2014 bronze, 2015 silver, 2016 gold) and University of Waterloo Computer Science graduate. ICPC 2017 World Finals competitor (18th, North America Champion) and winner of the 2017 Bloomberg Global CodeCon Finals. Public employment record is limited to an index-only, unnamed 'financial company' software-engineering entry; no primary source names any employer, and no quantitative-finance employer has been verified.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only employment lead is an index-only (LinkedIn-derived enrichment) entry listing 'Software Engineer at Unnamed financial company' (United States) with no employer name, dates, or role detail - not a primary source; a second identical index entry is the same record, not independent confirmation.Sep 17, 2026
• No primary source (company page, press, filing, personal site) names any employer for this Yikuan Li, and no search surfaced any quantitative-finance, trading, market-making, hedge fund, bank, asset manager, energy or crypto trading employer; the two 'unnamed financial company' leads cannot be classified or verified, so the quant-employment question stays UNRESOLVED.Sep 17, 2026
• Identity: Yikuan Li (also recorded as 'Yi Kuan Li'; the Bloomberg CodeCon article names him 'Timothy (Yi Kuan) Li') represented Canada at the IOI in 2014 (bronze, rank 105), 2015 (silver, rank 61) and 2016 (gold, rank 7); handle FatalEagle on Codeforces/Topcoder/AtCoder/CodeChef.Aug 1, 2016
• At University of Waterloo (Ontario) he was on the Waterloo Royal Blue team that placed 18th at the ICPC 2017 World Finals and was named North America Champion, alongside Antonio Molina Lovett and Jacob Jackson.May 24, 2017
• Won the 2017 Bloomberg Global CodeCon Finals in New York as an 18-year-old Waterloo freshman, topping a 140-student field; the article dates his freshman year to early 2017.Mar 2, 2017
• Education: a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and Don Mills Collegiate Institute (Toronto) are carried in the LinkedIn-derived index; both are consistent with the IOI/Canadian-informatics record, but individual degree dates are not independently confirmed.Sep 17, 2026
• The IOI statistics record lists his Codeforces (codeforces.com/profile/FatalEagle) and Topcoder (FatalEagle) profiles, confirming the FatalEagle handle belongs to Yikuan Li; a separate GitHub user 'FatalEagle' displays 'Timothy Li' and cannot be confidently attributed to him, so no github_url is recorded.Sep 17, 2026
• On DMOJ (Waterloo's online judge) his FatalEagle account shows 848 problems solved, #30 by points and #36 by rating - sustained competitive-programming activity tied to the Waterloo community.Sep 17, 2026
• A Waterloo CS news item lists him among the students behind Waterloo's top North-American ICPC ranking, tying his competitive-programming results to the Cheriton School of Computer Science.Aug 1, 2015