“While he was in graduate school, Zimmerman did a two-month internship at Jane Street, the elite quantitative trading firm, and he worked part-time for another investment firm.”

The Quanta Podcast · Audio Edition: Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else

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completed a two-month internship at Jane Street and part-time work at another investment firm to evaluate quantitative finance before returning to pure math research

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