What is the best candidate of the International Math Olympiad doing?

(Dan Tri) - Alex Song (born 1997) is considered the contestant with the most impressive exam results in the history of the International Math Olympiad.

As a Chinese-Canadian contestant, Alex Song won five gold medals and one bronze medal for the Canadian team.

Alex started participating in the International Math Olympiad in 2010, when he was only 13 years old. In his first participation, Alex won a bronze medal.

Alex Song is considered the contestant with the most outstanding achievements at the International Mathematical Olympiad (Photo: EFC).

For the next 5 consecutive years, Alex won gold medals for the Canadian team. Notably, in 2015 - the last year Alex participated in the International Math Olympiad - he achieved a perfect score of 42/42. In the 2015 competition, only Alex Song achieved a perfect score.

Until now, 10 years have passed since Alex stopped at the International Math Olympiad, and no contestant has surpassed the series of achievements that Alex once established at this competition.

Alex Song was born in Tianjin, China. In 2002, Alex and his family immigrated to Canada and settled in Waterloo, Ontario.

Alex showed interest in mathematics from an early age. Starting from grade 1, Alex participated in math competitions. By grade 4, Alex Song participated in national and international math competitions. In grade 5, Alex became interested in international math Olympiad questions and practiced solving them.

Alex Song at the 2015 International Mathematical Olympiad, this was the last year he participated in this competition as a contestant (Photo: EFC).

Alex Song graduated from high school at 18 on schedule, without skipping a grade. In 2015, he began studying mathematics at Princeton University (USA) and graduated in 2019 with a bachelor's degree.

During his student years, Alex had an internship at Jane Street Capital, a prestigious financial company in the US. Alex also worked at the multinational investment fund Citadel LLC, one of the largest and most successful investment funds in the world .

In 2022, Alex Song began attending graduate training programs at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA).

Since 2020, Alex has been a key instructor in the training of Canadian team members for the International Mathematical Olympiad.

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