IEEEXtreme 10.0 Team
IEEEXtreme Executive Committee
Dimitrios Lyras
Committee Chair
Dimitrios Lyras
Biography:
Dr. Dimitrios Lyras was born in Kozani, Greece. He received his diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering and his Ph.D. in Data Mining and Deductive Logic Reasoning from the University of Patras, Greece. Currently he is working as Principal Data Scientist at SAP. He has paired concrete hands-on working experience in Software Engineering with leading research on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Statistical Computational Biology. Being equally skilled at both the practical and the theoretical level, he has authored several articles, published in peer-reviewed conferences and journals, and has contributed to numerous R&D projects.
Dr. Lyras is very enthusiastic about programming and he is an active IEEE volunteer. He has been serving the IEEEXtreme Programming contest as a judge since practically its beginning, and was awarded the IEEE MGA Achievement Award in 2009. He loves being part of the IEEEXtreme community and fosters the idea that IEEEXtreme is a contest like no other…it is a 24-hour PROGRAMMING PARTY and everyone is welcome on board!
Dr. Jeremy Blum
Technical, Industry, and Judges Lead
Dr. Jeremy Blum
Biography:
Prasanth Mohan
Public Relations Co-Lead
Prasanth Mohan
Biography:
Prasanth is a Computer Science and Engineering Graduate from Anna University. He works with REDD (R&D Company) as Associate Engineer. He Heads the Operations for 3Ding (3D Printing Division of REDD) where he is primarily responsible for acquisition of new products based on Market interest and demand, Building Sales & Marketing Strategies, Customer Relations & Satisfaction.
He is associated with IEEE for the last 5 years and organized more than 140+ events. Prasanth is a recipient of Richard E Merwin Scholarship from Computer Society and Larry K Wilson Student Volunteer Award (Runner-Up).
Prasanth is a part of IEEEXtreme Programming Competition since 2012. He is the founding Chair of IEEEXtreme Public Relation Committee involved in program outreach and identifying feedbacks for improvements. He introduced the Student Ambassadors Program and engaged more than 340+ Student Ambassadors which played a crucial role in the growth of the competition. He is currently the Program Chair for IEEEXtreme 11.0
Judges
Prof. Oded Margalit
Computer Scientist at IBM
Prof. Oded Margalit
Biography:
Prof. Oded Margalit earned his PhD in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University in 1993, under the supervision of Professor Zvi Galil. He has been serving as a judge continuously since 2008, and was awarded the IEEE MGA Achievement Award. His professional experience contains, among others: Machine Learning; Constraint Satisfaction Programming; and Formal Verification, Currently, he is the CTO of Citi’s Security Innovation Center in Tel Aviv and a full professor adjunct to the computer science department at Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He was the author of IBM research’s Ponder-This monthly challenge site from 2007 to 2020. An avid riddle and puzzle maven, Margalit has been known to focus this passion on setting up contests and challenges for coding, puzzle-solving, and mathematical challenges.
Charalampos Tsimpouris
Ph.D. Student at University of Patras
Charalampos Tsimpouris
Biography:
Wiwit Rifa’i is a university student at Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. He was always passionate about competitive programming. He has competed in the last three years in IEEEXtreme, placing 6th in IEEEXtreme 9.0, 13th in IEEEXtreme 10.0, and 4th in IEEEXtreme 11.0. And this year, he also participated in ACM ICPC World Finals 2018 in Beijing.
Marco L. Della Vedova
Post-Doctoral Researcher at University of Pavia
Marco L. Della Vedova
Biography:
Wiwit Rifa’i is a university student at Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. He was always passionate about competitive programming. He has competed in the last three years in IEEEXtreme, placing 6th in IEEEXtreme 9.0, 13th in IEEEXtreme 10.0, and 4th in IEEEXtreme 11.0. And this year, he also participated in ACM ICPC World Finals 2018 in Beijing.
Dr. Carol Wellington
Computer Science Department Chair at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Carol Wellington
Biography:
Wiwit Rifa’i is a university student at Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. He was always passionate about competitive programming. He has competed in the last three years in IEEEXtreme, placing 6th in IEEEXtreme 9.0, 13th in IEEEXtreme 10.0, and 4th in IEEEXtreme 11.0. And this year, he also participated in ACM ICPC World Finals 2018 in Beijing.
Kundula Bala Satya Naveen
Computer Science Department Chair at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Kundula Bala Satya Naveen
Biography:
Wiwit Rifa’i is a university student at Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. He was always passionate about competitive programming. He has competed in the last three years in IEEEXtreme, placing 6th in IEEEXtreme 9.0, 13th in IEEEXtreme 10.0, and 4th in IEEEXtreme 11.0. And this year, he also participated in ACM ICPC World Finals 2018 in Beijing.
Rodolfo Mercado Gonzales
Research Assistant at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Rodolfo Mercado Gonzales
Biography:
Rodolfo has earned B.Sc. degree in Systems Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Peru.
He currently serves as a Research Assistant at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He is researching about Natural Language Processing (NLP) applied to less-resourced languages.
Rodolfo has participated in some activities related to IEEEXtreme since edition 5.0. He has been a contestant (placed 7th in IEEEXtreme 7.0 ), Proctor and currently, he is a judge (problem setter).
Sachin Bharadwaj S
Graduate Student at University of California, San Diego
Sachin Bharadwaj S
Biography:
George Michael
Wireless Software Engineer at Ceranext LTD
George Michael
Biography:
George Michael is a researcher at KIOS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence at the University of Cyprus.
He received a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus and he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering.
He worked at the Data-Driven Multi-threading Laboratory at the University of Cyprus for a few years doing research on high-performance computing.
Following, he worked as a software developer at XM.COM and CeraNext.
His work is mostly on GNU/Linux systems.
George is an IEEE senior member and an active volunteer.
He held various positions during the past few years.
Between them he server as member of the board of:
- University of Cyprus IEEE Student Branch
- IEEE Cyprus Section Executive Committee
- IEEE Region 8 Committee.
He was part of all previous IEEEXtreme competitions either as a contestant or as a volunteer.
On IEEEXtreme 11.0 he served as the Technical, Industry, and Judges Lead and on version 13.0 he served as the Program Lead.
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Quality Assurance team
Luis Fernandes
Luis Fernandes
Biography:
Dr. Luis A. Fernandes received a degree in Applied Physics in 2006, and a Ph.D. in Physics in 2012, from the Faculty of Science at the University of Porto, Portugal.
In 2008 he was awarded a Ph.D. fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, to pursue his thesis entitled “Birefringence and Bragg grating control in femtosecond laser written optical circuits.” His doctoral work was researched in collaboration with the Photonics Group at the University of Toronto, where he became a postdoctoral fellow in 2013. From 2013 to 2018 he worked as a senior optical scientist at OZ Optics Ltd. At the end of 2018 he joined VIAVI Solutions Inc. as a senior optical designer.
He served as a member of the board of the University of Toronto SPIE Student Chapter from 2010 to 2013 and is a member of the IEEE, SPOF, SPF, OSA, and SPIE.
As a student, he participated in the IEEEXtreme competition in 2009, 2010, and 2012 and since 2014 he has served as a volunteer in the quality assurance team. In 2018 he joined the IEEEXtreme Executive Committee as Technical Judges Lead.
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