Daniel Lightwing

Daniel Lightwing
Daniel Lightwing
Born	1988 (age 35–36); Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
Education	Studied Natural Language Processing, Peking University (2009–2011); MA Mathematics, University of Cambridge (2006–2009); MA Oriental Studies University of Cambridge (2008–2009);
Occupation	Co-founder of Castella Research
Years active	2006–present
Known for	Silver medalist at the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad, former child prodigy
Notable work	Beautiful Young Minds (2007); X+Y (2014);

Daniel James Lightwing is a former mathematics child prodigy and co-founder of the London-based Internet/gambling business Castella Research, which uses high-frequency trading inspired methods to place bets on sports exchanges. He was previously a web backend developer for the London offices of Google. In 2006, he represented the United Kingdom at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he won a silver medal. His experience at the IMO was described in the 2007 BBC Two British television documentary Beautiful Young Minds and the 2014 film X+Y.

Lightwing started to gain more fame in China from 2016 onwards, particularly on the website Zhihu, where his articles written in Chinese, covering a broad range of topics had attracted over 170,000 followers within one year.

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