Vaibhav Gupta

The 2023 IQC final ran in the Bahamas — twelve teams flown in from Canada, China, Hungary, India, Malaysia, the UK, the US, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan and Vietnam. Team Guava — Vaibhav Gupta and Nihar Patel, both undergrads at IIT Delhi — won. The pair had cleared 30,000-plus contestants from 100+ countries in earlier stages, and the prize was over $100,000 cash split between the two. Vaibhav was studying Chemical Engineering as a major with a minor in Computer Science, an unusual quant pipeline; Nihar was on the more conventional Mathematics and Computing track.

Vaibhav joined WorldQuant as a Researcher in March 2023 — months before the Bahamas final — and has stayed there since, building "value-adding alphas" through what WQ calls the BRAIN Consultancy Program. His IIT Delhi LinkedIn post on the win used the hashtags #quantitativefinance #iqc #worldquant #teamguava and pulled 63 comments from the alum network. WorldQuant published an official "2023 IQC Finalist Spotlight" page for him — one of the rare cases where the firm has produced a dedicated bio page for a winner, which makes the editorial trail unusually rich for an IQC alumnus.

He is part of the longest unbroken Indian streak in IQC history: 2023 outright, 2024 in finals, 2025 second place. Beyond LinkedIn and the WorldQuant career page, Vaibhav doesn't run a public-content presence — no Twitter, no YouTube, no TradingView. The story is the work, not the brand.