Instructors
AIME Sprint Class |
Business |
Dr. Jiangang Yao |
Dr. Jingwei Meng |
Dr. Jiangang Yao was fascinated with mathematics as a child and started his involvement with mathematical olympiads then. He won the gold medal with full marks in the 35th International Mathematical Olympiad and got his math PhD degree from UC Berkeley. He has been the coach for mathematical olympiads at various levels for 30 years, and has written several popular mathematical olympiad books in Chinese.
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Dr. Jingwei Meng is currently a faculty member at Indiana University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Duke University and a MBA degree in finance and supply chain management from Indiana University Kelley School of Business. Dr. Meng is the co-founder of Melody Culture Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization established in 2004. He is actively involved in many cultural and educational services, including the first Chinese TV program in San Diego, concerts and master classes in music, summer and winter camps in business, and systematic business training for middle school and high school students. Since 2018, Dr. Meng has developed a comprehensive suite of business courses (“MBA for Youth” Program) and instructed in summer and winter camps across the US. His business classes are also offered as online weekly programs during spring and fall semesters.
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Debate |
Game Theory |
Mr. Hemanth Asirvatham |
Mr. Timothy Alexander |
Mr. Hemanth Asirvatham is a student at Harvard University, studying Applied Mathematics in Computer Science and Economics. He was formerly the captain of the Century High School debate team and placed multiple times at statewide competitions. Hemanth attended the Research Science Institute at MIT and was awarded a Top 10 presentation. Hemanth is a State AP Scholar, has placed 2nd at the US National Brain Bee, and is a two-time ISEF Finalist. He has led and instructed school teams for Model UN, Science Bowl, and STEM Society. Hemanth has taught many debate courses, including the Debate 101 summer program with over 150 attendees, with extremely positive feedback from students and parents. In his free time, Hemanth enjoys watching Star Trek (better than Star Wars, obviously), rereading Harry Potter for the 100th time, and beating his friends in Monopoly, Werewolf, or really any other non-physical game.
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Mr. Timothy Alexander is an undergraduate at The University of Alabama double majoring in Math and Chemistry. Timothy’s love and interest in STEM started at a young age as he began participating in math competitions in middle school - winning the Minnesota Mathcounts competition and placing 29th nationally in 2016. As a 5 time AIME qualifier and 1 time USAJMO qualifier. Timothy has been active in individual competitions year round as well as team competitions such as Math League, HMMT, and ARML (competing on Minnesota's A1 team). He was a Minnesota All-State Math Team Captain and John Marshal Math League Captain for 3 years. His experience in programming comes from numerous independent projects such as an automated forex trading algorithm, an election modeler, and a custom assistant bot which performs a variety of tasks. Outside of school, Timothy loves playing sports such as soccer and spikeball, playing strategic board games, and watching shows such as Parks and Rec and Brooklyn 99!
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Scientific Visualization |
USACO |
Ms. Wenjing Wu |
Mr. Daniel Li |
Wenjing Wu, CMI is a board-certified medical illustrator. She is the founder of Jingnetics.com, a scientific visualization studio primarily serving the medical and biological research community. Wenjing earned her Master of Arts in Medical and Biological Illustration from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She worked as an in-house medical illustrator at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC, before starting her own studio and teaching online courses. Her illustration and animation work appeared in major peer-reviewed journals, patient education websites, textbook covers, as well as promotional material for pharmaceutical/medical devices. Wenjing believes that strong visuals can multiply the impact of science, and that the path to becoming a good visual storyteller is full of fun.
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Daniel Li is a sophomore at MIT. Daniel was a USACO finalist in the 2018-2019 season. He was also a 2020 and 2021 Canadian Computing Olympiad Invitee, and a 2020 and 2021 season Google Code Jam Round 2 qualifier. He participates in Codeforces contests (danielli03) and has a Master Title as well. Daniel enjoys teaching. He has taught Java and algorithms for 500 hours in his high school years, with more than 100 students. Since entering college, he has taught four courses (Bronze level one, Bronze level two, and Silver two times) at AoS with more than 90 students total. In addition, he has been an instructor for AoS summer camp 2022. Daniel has made 48 youtube videos to teach java (cswithdaniel), which has more than 550 subscribers. In his free time, Daniel participates in church bible study and activities. He currently does research at MIT involving machine learning. Daniel also likes to play card games and board games. He has programmed video games, but not recently.
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Intro to Computer Science in Python
Ms. Laura Wang
Laura Wang is a principal engineer and software development manager at a Fortune 500 company for over 20 years. She has been teaching programming language, program design and high-performance computing since 2002. Laura has been invited to give lectures in the US and 5 different countries.
Teaching Assistants
Kevin Yang |
Matthew Chen |
Teaching Assistant, AIME |
Teaching Assistant, AIME |
Kevin is a college freshman at the University of Minnesota with many years of math competition experience, qualifying for AIME since 7th grade. Additionally, he is a 3 time USA(J)MO qualifier. Kevin was a Minnesota All-State Math Team Captain and team leader of Science Olympiad. He can frequently be found teaching others about his passions, from light and sounds to game theory. In his free time, he enjoys video games and coding whatever random idea comes into his head at the time.
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Matthew Chen is currently a senior at Wayzata High School. He attended the Research Science Institute, was a USAMO Bronze medalist, 2x USAJMO Top 50 scorer, 2x USAPhO Qualifier, and competed in the USACO Gold division. He's a Captain of the MN All-State Math Team and placed 8th at PUMaC Algebra, 8th at BMT Geometry, 15th at CHMMC, 19th at CMIMC Combinatorics and was on the 1st place Theoretical Computer Science team. He's also a Captain of Wayzata Science Bowl, qualifying for Nationals twice and placing top 16. In his free time, he's a die-hard Vikings fan, loves solving puzzles, listening to rock and pop, coming up with spotify playlist names, and blasting his lungs during karaoke.
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