From Knapsack Lectures to Quant: DeepSeek Harness Lead Cui Tianyi's Background Draws Attention

Cui Tianyi, lead of DeepSeek's Harness team, is drawing attention for his path from authoring the widely circulated 'Nine Lectures on Knapsack Problems' and a passion for functional programming to nearly nine years of quant research at Jane Street before becoming a core DeepSeek developer.

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