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Olympiad talent · visible profiles spanning 2001–2014 · career geography

Where Olympiad Talent Lands

6 of the 14 visible profiles are classified in the United States.

USA is the largest destination bucket

Six of 14 visible profiles are classified in the USA, compared with four Home, three Elsewhere and one Unknown.

“Current location” uses either employer or education, depending on the record. Unknown is retained rather than guessed.

Visible profiles by competition

IPhO’s eight profiles span every bucket: Home—Chan Wai Hong Ronald, Bukyoung Jhun and Jin Hong Park; USA—Mingjie Dai and Soon Wei Daniel Lim; Elsewhere—Lim Jeck and Kewei Li; Unknown—Chenbo Shi.

IMO’s five split between USA—Dong Gyu Lim, Xin Wan, Xianyi Zeng and June Hyuk Jung—and Home—Gar Goei Loke. IOI’s sole profile, Fan Long, is Elsewhere at Toronto. These describe supplied visible profiles, not all medalists.

The institution is a waypoint

Universities are transit points: these four paths continue across countries, institutions and roles.

Illustrative records, not a universal pattern. Degree fields may be incomplete or inconsistently specified.

Olympiad discipline did not determine later occupation: these careers cross academic research, quantitative finance, blockchain, public service, bioengineering and business analytics.