I did mathematics olympiads as a student in Romania and went on to do a degree at Oxford University in Mathematics & Computer Science.

For my masters project at Oxford, I worked on problems related to decidability of matrix multiplication problems. In particular, I showed that it’s a decidable problem whether there exist positive integers \(a,b,c,d\) such that \(A^a  B^b  C^c  D^d = T\) where \(A, B, C, D, T\) are given \(2\times 2\) upper-triangular integer matrices. For more details, please see the full report.

In 2022, I started a PhD in algebraic geometry at King’s College London under the supervision of Peter Jossen. The project was about motivic fundamental groups. However, I had a change of heart and, after one year, I decided to quit. In short, the main reason is that I have many interests and I realised I wasn’t going to be able to pursue them if I stuck down this route.

At the moment, I’m starting a career in the quantitative finance space.