Filip Wolski
Senior Quantitative Researcher, Citadel Securities · Former Early Member, OpenAI
Key facts
- Educated by Ryszard Szubartowski at Secondary School No. 3 in Gdynia, becoming the first Pole to win the International Olympiad in Informatics.
- Achieved top results on his English matura exam by practicing directly on American computer science problems and corresponding with Americans, rather than relying on standard classroom drills.
- Entered and won a global tech competition funded by Rolex before moving abroad to build his international career.
- Served as an early team member at OpenAI.
- Currently works as a Senior Quantitative Researcher at Citadel Securities.
Biography
Filip Wolski is a Polish computer scientist, Senior Quantitative Researcher at Citadel Securities, and former early team member at OpenAI. After making history as the first Polish winner of the International Olympiad in Informatics under mentor Ryszard Szubartowski, Wolski built an international career in advanced AI research and quantitative finance, contributing to early reinforcement learning models at OpenAI before joining Citadel Securities.