A first research paper
Co-authored Space-Efficient Hierholzer for Undirected Graphs, closing the undirected case with a linear-time algorithm.
Milestones
Days to remember.
A few firsts, a few medals, and the people and places around them.
Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference
Gave a talk on combinatorial game theory.
Harms Penner Leadership Award
The E. Paul & Dolores Harms Penner award, for leadership in the Waterloo and Conrad Grebel community.
Jane Street FTTP
Selected for the First-Year Trading and Technology Program in New York City.
Codeforces Master
Peak rating 2221; 1,797+ problems solved.
Putnam · top 10%
Scored 23 points in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
Mathematics Global Scholarship
Awarded $25,000 by the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics.
Hart House Summer Blitz champion
Won the U1800 section: seven double rounds, three minutes plus two seconds a move.
Codeforces Round 1024
Co-authored a contest played by more than 24,000 competitors around the world.
Canadian Computing Olympiad · silver
Placed eighth nationally and earned an invitation to Canada’s IOI team selection camp.
University of Waterloo
Began studying computer science and pure mathematics, with a minor in music.
WinBloke · 200+ users
Built a voice assistant for controlling a Windows computer.
National Informatics Olympiad · bronze
Placed in the top 40 among more than 40,000 participants in Iran.
Iranian Combinatorics Olympiad · silver
A medal for the kind of problems that first drew me toward mathematics.
President’s Scholarship of Distinction
University of Waterloo entrance scholarship.
Euclid Certificate of Distinction
Recognition in the Canadian Euclid Mathematics Contest.
Canadian Senior Math Contest distinction
Placed in the top 25% of participants.
Braemar chess champion
A school championship, and many more hours over a board.
At Waterloo
94.8% average across computer science, pure mathematics, and the rest of my degree.