Zhichang Chen

Zhichang Chen is a mathematics undergraduate at the University of Cambridge (BA & MMath, 2022-2026) and an International Mathematical Olympiad bronze medallist for Belgium in 2020, 2021 and 2022. He attended Sint-Jozefcollege Turnhout (2016-2022) before Cambridge. His listed professional experience centres on a 2025 Quantitative Trading Internship at Maven Securities, a London proprietary trading firm that runs quantitative and market-making strategies, alongside research placements at the Sainsbury Laboratory (Cambridge) and the Cambridge AI Safety Hub MARS programme, two PwC UK actuarial programmes, and a Jane Street undergraduate insight scheme.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. The person held an actual 2025 Quantitative Trading Internship at Maven Securities in London, evidenced by the LinkedIn profile linkedin.com/in/zhichang-chen-4b3ab819a, whose headline 'First Class mathematics student at the University of Cambridge | IMO bronze 2020-2022' independently corroborates the Belgian IMO 2020-2022 identity. Employer classification verified: Maven Securities (mavensecurities.com), a London-headquartered proprietary trading firm whose own site states it is 'a market-leading proprietary trading firm, allocating internal capital between discretionary, systematic and market-making strategies' with fundamental and quantitative trading - a genuine quantitative-finance employer, not a name match. The other trading-linked item, Jane Street 'Spring Intern' (April 2024), is described on the profile itself as a 4-day undergraduate insight scheme, not a trading role, and is excluded. Role currency after summer 2025 is unestablished and the internship rests on the LinkedIn index, not independently confirmed by Maven.Sep 17, 2026
• Maven Securities employer classification verified: its own site calls it 'a market-leading proprietary trading firm, allocating internal capital between discretionary, systematic and market-making strategies,' with dedicated market-making and multi-strategy systematic arms - a genuine quant-finance employer.Oct 31, 2025
• Career timeline reads mathematics-first: IMO bronze 2020-2022 while at Sint-Jozefcollege Turnhout, then Cambridge maths 2022-2026, with the only trading-adjacent roles being a 2025 Maven quant internship and a 2024 Jane Street 4-day insight scheme - the trading exposure postdates the Olympiad record.Sep 17, 2026
• Early professional exposure splits two ways: actuarial risk (two PwC UK programmes, 2023 and 2024 summer) and mathematical research (Sainsbury Laboratory cell-diffusion modelling, Cambridge AI Safety Hub singular-learning research under Evan Ryan Gunter, Polymath Jr ideal theory) - the 2025 Maven quant internship is the first trading-side role in the listed timeline.Sep 17, 2026
• No personal GitHub, X/Twitter, or personal website surfaced under this name; the public footprint is limited to LinkedIn and Olympiad result pages, so tech/social fields are recorded absent rather than guessed.Sep 17, 2026