tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786333285568106173.post8029648413881150136..comments2024-01-25T01:05:59.968-05:00Comments on WebDiarios de Motocicleta: Informatics Olympiads (II): Why Should I Care?Mihaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11599372864611039927noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786333285568106173.post-12551352228820937172007-09-04T12:29:00.000-04:002007-09-04T12:29:00.000-04:00An incomplete list of people from Slovakia who did...An incomplete list of people from Slovakia who did well @IOI and are doing research in CS:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~stefanko/" REL="nofollow">Daniel Stefankovic </A><BR/>(gold '93)<BR/>PhD Uchicago, now prof at U Rochester.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://compgen.bscb.cornell.edu/~tvinar/" REL="nofollow">Tomas Vinar</A> (gold '93, '94)<BR/>PhD UWaterloo, now Postdoc @Cornell, bioinformatics<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://compgen.bscb.cornell.edu/~bbrejova/" REL="nofollow">Brona Brejova</A> (silver '93, bronze '94)<BR/>Postdoc @Cornell, bioinformatics<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mdudik/" REL="nofollow">Miro Dudik</A> (silver '95, gold '96, '97)<BR/>Machine learning/algorithms. PhD@Princeton, moving to a CMU postdoc<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sfuniak/" REL="nofollow">Stanislav Funiak</A> <BR/>(silver '97, gold '98)<BR/>CMU PhD student, AI/robotics<BR/><BR/>An example of IOI influence on math:<BR/><BR/>Peter Bella (gold '02)<BR/>Starting PhD in math at NYU/Courantpálenicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15057290951441022430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786333285568106173.post-23070651115413249012007-08-30T12:32:00.000-04:002007-08-30T12:32:00.000-04:00Two people i know:Amin Saberi (Bronze, IOI 96, for...Two people i know:<BR/><BR/>Amin Saberi (Bronze, IOI 96, for Iran), Assistant professor in Stanford University<BR/><BR/>Mohammad Hossein Bateni (Gold, IOI 2002, for Iran), PhD student in Princetonحمیدhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17697056697523771755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786333285568106173.post-75194448900442876952007-08-18T18:49:00.000-04:002007-08-18T18:49:00.000-04:00Jelany asks me to also list the following IOIers w...<A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/minilek/www/" REL="nofollow">Jelany</A> asks me to also list the following IOIers who are now doing a PhD in <B>Math</B>, in the hope that "<I>they may one day migrate toward their true calling</I>":<BR/><BR/>** <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_W._Barton" REL="nofollow">Reid Barton</A> (<B>gold</B> 2000, <B>gold</B> 2001 -- beating me for 1st place), now PhD at Harvard<BR/><BR/>** <A HREF="" REL="nofollow">Steven Sivek</A> (<B>bronze</B> 2001), now PhD at MITMihaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11599372864611039927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786333285568106173.post-14459234092902613612007-08-18T18:35:00.000-04:002007-08-18T18:35:00.000-04:00[Seems everybody prefers to email me instead of po...[Seems everybody prefers to email me instead of posting... Scoring points for Web 2.0!]<BR/><BR/>Good to hear the US/Canada don't have monopoly either:<BR/><BR/>** <A HREF="http://people.ksp.sk/~misof/cv.php" REL="nofollow">Michal Forišek</A> (<B>gold</B> 1999, <B>gold</B> 1998), now PhD at Comenius, in BratislavaMihaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11599372864611039927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786333285568106173.post-56486268258761529292007-08-18T18:26:00.000-04:002007-08-18T18:26:00.000-04:00Of course, in the list of already established theo...Of course, in the list of already established theorists, I should've had:<BR/><BR/>** <A HREF="http://www.stanford.edu/~darthur/" REL="nofollow">David Arthur</A> (<B>gold</B> 2000, <B>gold</B> 1999, <B>bronze</B> 1998)<BR/><BR/>Good to see MIT does not have a monopoly ;)Mihaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11599372864611039927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786333285568106173.post-42422424659392451042007-08-18T18:15:00.000-04:002007-08-18T18:15:00.000-04:00I am reminded about the following IOIers, now doin...I am reminded about the following IOIers, now doing a PhD in theory:<BR/><BR/>** <A HREF="http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dagpritc/" REL="nofollow">David Pritchard</A> (<B>gold</B> 2000, <B>silver</B> 1999, <B>silver</B> 1998 for Canada), PhD at Waterloo <BR/><BR/>** <A HREF="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~etesami/" REL="nofollow">Omid Etesami</A> (<B>silver</B> 2000 for Iran), now PhD at Berkeley<BR/><BR/>** Gregory Price (<B>bronze</B> 2000 for USA), starting a PhD at MIT<BR/><BR/>** <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/tabbott/www/" REL="nofollow">Timothy Abbott</A> (<B>silver</B> 2003 for USA), starting a PhD at MITMihaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11599372864611039927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786333285568106173.post-51120000083815549562007-08-15T22:44:00.000-04:002007-08-15T22:44:00.000-04:00count me in as an average ioi & boi participant wh...count me in as an average ioi & boi participant who is doing Phd@RPI...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786333285568106173.post-15309065872587559032007-08-15T21:30:00.000-04:002007-08-15T21:30:00.000-04:00Like I said, I probably forgot people, so post a c...Like I said, I probably forgot people, so post a comment or email me. Via Valentin Polishchuk, I learn about:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~mbautin/" REL="nofollow">Mikhail Bautin</A> [gold+maximum score 2000, bronze 99], now PhD @ Stony Brook.Mihaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11599372864611039927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786333285568106173.post-39133576782271696282007-08-15T15:16:00.000-04:002007-08-15T15:16:00.000-04:00Appologies for the repost... It took a while befor...Appologies for the repost... It took a while before I understood how to fix the images.Mihaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11599372864611039927noreply@blogger.com