Sandor Lehoczky

Sandor Lehoczky

Sandor Lehoczky is a senior leader at Jane Street who has promoted math education, competition, and access for more than three decades. A Math Olympian in high school, Sandor founded the Mandelbrot Competition with Sam Vandervelde and Richard Rusczyk in 1990. In 1994, he and Richard went on to write and self-publish the seminal two-volume set The Art of Problem Solving, books that continue to have a revolutionary impact on math preparation for ambitious high school students. Sandor graduated from Princeton University with academic honors in 1994 with a BA in Physics and a certificate in Applied Mathematics. He joined Jane Street in 2001 and has since led a variety of operations and firmwide initiatives. In the mid-2000s, Sandor co-founded the Art of Problem Solving Initiative (AoPSI), a nonprofit focused on bringing powerful resources to high-achieving students who have encountered barriers to success in mathematics.