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.

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)