IEEEXtreme 14.0 Team
IEEEXtreme Executive Committee
George Michael
Committee Lead
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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Prasanth Mohan
Past Committee 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
Luis Fernandes
Advisory Member
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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Bowen Yu
Technical Lead
Bowen Yu
Biography:
Tittu Varghese
Website Co-Lead
Tittu Varghese
Biography:
Tittu is a co-founder and CTO of Servntire Global, a company which is specifically focusing on blockchain technology. He is holding a bachelors degree in Computer Science from Cochin University of Science and Technology.
He is a full-stack developer and an active open source contributor for various blockchain projects across the development community.
Tittu is an active volunteer in IEEE for the last 6 years and organized many events across various levels of IEEE including IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference.
Gabriel Elías Paredes Mendoza
Public Relations Co-Lead
Gabriel Elías Paredes Mendoza
Biography:
He is currently studying Mechatronics Engineering at the Universidad Técnica del Norte (UTN) in the city of Ibarra Ecuador. He has actively collaborated as a volunteer and IEEE member of the IEEE-UTN Student Branch since 2015, obtaining different recognition and positions: President of the Chapter RAS IEEE UTN 2016, Outstanding Member of Section Ecuador 2017, Leader ambassador IEEEXtreme Section Ecuador 2017, Leader ambassador IEEEXtreme of Latin America and the Caribbean 2018, Ambassador IEEEMadC 2018. He currently holds the position of Vice Chairman of the Public Relations Committee of IEEEXtreme.
John Benedict Boggala
Sponsorship Co-Lead
John Benedict Boggala
Biography:
John is an Electronics and Communications Engineer. He works as a Team Manager for Amazon’s Digital and Devices Team in Hyderabad, India. He has been with IEEE for the past 8 years and has participated in and organized more than 200 events. He also serves as the Associate Editor for IEEE Potentials. He is the South Asia Coordinator for Region 10 IEEE Young Professionals and is part of various committees. he is currently the vice-chair for IEEE Xtreme.
Craig Scratchley
Sponsorship Co-Lead
Craig Scratchley
Biography:
Dr. W. Craig Scratchley is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Scratchley received a Ph.D. in Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and has worked in companies ranging from a large multinational corporation (IBM) to a Silicon Valley .com startup (Marketocracy.com). Dr. Scratchley is the Counselor for the IEEE Student Branch at Simon Fraser University, has twice proctored IEEEXtreme, and feels honored to be helping to organize this year’s competition.
Dimitrios Lyras
Advisory Member
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!
Mansi Tripathi
R1-R6 Representative (USA)
Mansi Tripathi
Biography:
Mansi is currently enrolled in a graduate degree in Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She graduated as a computer science engineer from Indira Gandhi Technical University for Women (all women colleges) in 2016. After which she worked as Software Engineer at Microsoft, Hyderabad for 2 years.
She was awarded the IEEE Richard E Merwin Scholarship in 2015 to recognize and reward her for volunteering in student branches and for her academic and professional efforts.
Omar Bishtawi
Website Co-Lead
Omar Bishtawi
Biography:
Omar Bishtawi is a computer engineering student in his final year at An-Najah National University.
My main expertise and field of work are on the web development field firstly then machine learning. He worked as a salesforce administrator and a full-stack web developer at dawsat health company since 2017.
Along the way, he made a lot of achievements in his life and won a lot of national and international levels in tech and entrepreneurship like (STEP2014, MADI2012, business plan competition by intel Palestine level 2012, best IEEE student branch contest 2018,best volunteer at AINC 2018 ).
He also held more than one voluntary position during his college live like :
- IEEE ANNU student branch webmaster
- IEEE MGA SAC Awards Committee member
- IEEEXtreme 14.0 executive committee website co-lead
- AIN ANNU branch vice president and tresurer
And he started participating in the IEEEXtreme competition since Xtreme 11.0 either as a contestant or as a volunteer.
Lead Ambassadors
Andrew Boggio-Dandry
Andrew Boggio-Dandry
Biography:
Andrew is currently an Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He earned his BS in Computer Engineering, MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and MA in Mathematics from the State University of New York. Andrew was the recipient of the 2018 UAlbany President’s Award for Undergraduate Research, and the recipient of IEEE’s 2019 – 2020 Charles LeGeyt Fortescue Graduate Scholarship. He has served as the webmaster and vice-chair of his university’s IEEE student chapter.
Adwaith S
Adwaith S
Biography:
Adwaith is a student at Central University of Karnataka, India pursuing integrated Btech -Mtech course in power and energy engineering. He had joined IEEEXtreme family in the year 2018 as an ambassador and then served as section lead for Bangalore section in the year 2019 and currently serving as Region 10 lead for IEEEXtreme14.0 PR team. Other major activities which he did at IEEE include: Student Activities Committee (SAC) member – IEEE Bangalore Section 2020 PES day Ambassador 2020 PES day Ambassador 2019 Chair, IEEE PES Chapter Central University of Karnataka 2019,2020 Vice Chair, IEEE Student Branch Central University of Karnataka 2020 Secretary, IEEE Student Branch Central University of Karnataka 2018, 2019
Andrei Gavrilov
Andrei Gavrilov
Biography:
Andrei Gavrilov is the IEEEXtreme 14.0 Regional Lead for Region 7, Canada. He is in his 4th undergraduate year at the University of British Columbia, majoring in Integrated Engineering and minoring in Commerce. Gavrilov has been an IEEE Student Member since 2016 and is currently serving as Vice-Chair Communications on the IEEE Canada Student Activities Committee. Gavrilov has received the IEEE Southern Alberta Undergraduate Leadership Award in 2017 and won Second Place in the Lance Stafford Larson Writing Award for his paper on Convolutional Neural Networks in 2019. He has completed research and published papers in the fields of Parametric Building Design, Biometric Facial Recognition Systems and Deep Learning. Some of his interests include public speaking, competitive tennis/coaching and game theory. This will be Gavrilov’s second year participating in the IEEEXtreme competition.
Luis Leiva
Luis Leiva
Biography:
I am currently studying Electronic Engineering at the Universidad Surcolombiana (USCO) in the city of Neiva, Colombia. I have actively collaborated as a volunteer and IEEE member of the IEEE-USCO Student Branch since 2018, obtaining the position of President of the IEEE USCO Student Branch 2020. I am currently holding the position of leader of Region 9 in the IEEEXtreme14.0.
Marios Pappas
Marios Pappas
Biography:
Marios Pappas is an Electrical and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Student at the National Technical University of Athens. His area of focus is Telecommunication Systems, Computer Networks and Cybersecurity. He is an active IEEE member and volunteer, also being a student member of the Communications Society, Power and Energy Society, Information Theory Society, Signal Processing Society, as well as Women in Engineering Affinity Group. Currently, he holds the position of IEEEXtreme Region 8 Lead while being the Treasurer in the IEEE NTUA Student Branch at the same time. Last year, he served as the IEEEXtreme Greece Section Lead Ambassador.
Jesús Sánchez Rodríguez
Jesús Sánchez Rodríguez
Biography:
Creative, enthusiastic and an innate leader, Jesús works as a brand designer, mobile and web UI designer, he also works as a web developer and in addition to being a local entrepreneur in the city of Neiva, Colombia. About to be an electronic engineer, Jesús has been an IEEE volunteer for the last 7 years. In his career, he has been characterized by his creativity and leadership as president at IEEE USCO student branch for 2019. He currently is the leader of the design and communications committee for the IEEE SACTeam Colombia Section and IEEEXtreme 14.0.
SAHABZDA BETAB BADAR
SAHABZDA BETAB BADAR
Biography:
I am a senior student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Tulas Institute (Uttrakhand Technical University), Dehradun. I am Research Scholar at UP Section. I am a prominent speaker as I have taken sessions of Tulas Institute, NIT Patna and etc. I am currently serving as Chairperson IEEE Tulas Institute SB. I hold various positions within the past few years like Vice-Chairperson, Secretory in my Student Branch. I am Founding Chair of IEEE IES, Sensor Council, Nano Technology Council, Council on Superconductivity, Council on electronics design automation. I actively volunteered in various events, such as IEEE DAY 2019, IEEE PES DAY, IEEE PES ZERO HUNGER DAY and IEEEXtreme 13.0 and now IEEE Xtreme 14.0 as Design team member in both of them. I am currently working on IoT, Embedded System and Robotics. I am leading my Institution in Cultural, Technical and Sports.
Francisco Joven Munar
Francisco Joven Munar
Biography:
Francisco is an Electronic Engineering student. He works as a multimedia editor and is a motion graphics content creator. He has been with IEEE for 2 years, where he has worked as a publicist, he is currently part of the IEEE USCO student branch team, serving as the advertising leader and he is a member of the IEEEXtreme advertising team.
Mr.Soumith Nuguri
Mr.Soumith Nuguri
Biography:
Soumith Nuguri is a graduating student, he is a super active IEEE volunteer from the past two years. Considering his management, technical and communication skills, Xtreme introduced him as a speaker. Currently, he is working in Planning and strategies estate along with the design team at Xtreme 14.0, soumith is always passionate about competitive programming, he always supports with unique ideas in the development of the activities that are carried out at Xtreme team. He possesses good experiences at volunteering in IEEE, his efforts, commitment, and dedication are always appreciable. He is working as a core team member at INDIAN ROBOTICS COMMUNITY, which is engaging with experts in Robotics Technology. Soumith is also IEEE Brand Ambassador, former Vice-Chairman at IEEE VEC-SB.
Judges
Bowen Yu
Bowen Yu
Biography:
Jonathan Durand Espinoza
Researcher at Universidad Católica San Pablo
Jonathan Durand Espinoza
Biography:
Sachin Bharadwaj S
Graduate Student at University of California, San Diego
Sachin Bharadwaj S
Biography:
Prof. Oded Margalit
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.
Dr. Nikolaos S. Papaspyrou
Associate professor, National Technical University of Athens
Dr. Nikolaos S. Papaspyrou
Biography:
Nikolaos Papaspyrou is an associate professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), since 2002, and a member of the Software Engineering Laboratory. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the NTUA (1998), a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Cornell University (1995) and a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the NTUA (1993). He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University (2000-2001) and as a visiting researcher on sabbatical at Google’s compiler group (2015-2016). His interests lie in the area of programming language theory and implementation: semantics, type systems, compilers, static analysis, formal verification. Since 2006, he volunteers as a coach, problem setter and evaluator of students who participate in the Greek national contest in Informatics, organizes the preparation camp for the contest’s finalists, and participates as leader or deputy leader in many delegations of the Greek national teams to such programming contests.
Wiwit Rifa’i
Wiwit Rifa’i
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).
Craig Scratchley
Craig Scratchley
Biography:
Dr. W. Craig Scratchley is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Scratchley received a Ph.D. in Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and has worked in companies ranging from a large multinational corporation (IBM) to a Silicon Valley .com startup (Marketocracy.com). Dr. Scratchley is the Counselor for the IEEE Student Branch at Simon Fraser University, has twice proctored IEEEXtreme, and feels honored to be helping to organize this year’s competition.
Kuida Liu
Kuida Liu
Biography:
Kuida Liu is currently a Research Software Development Engineer at TuSimple, focusing on deep learning for self-driving trucks. He received his Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University in 2020 and Bachelor of Engineering in EE and Bachelor of Economics (for second Bachelor’s degree) from Tsinghua University in 2018, with honor. He participated in IEEEXtreme 12.0 in 2018 and his team ranked global 10th place.
Zhiruo Zhou
Zhiruo Zhou
Biography:
Zhiruo is currently a Ph.D. student in Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (USC), supervised by Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo. She received her B.E. degree in Electronic Information Science and Technology from Tsinghua University in 2018. Her research interests include computer vision and image processing.
Majid Farhadi
Majid Farhadi
Biography:
Majid Farhadi is a PhD candidate in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization, at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include theory of computing, approximation algorithms, learning theory, and optimization.
Vasileios Nakos
Vasileios Nakos
Biography:
Postdoctoral researcher at Saarland University and Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Ph.D. from Harvard in Theoretical Computer Science
