Ellery Alkotob Ellery Alkotob is a second year undergraduate student at UCLA, majoring in Environmental Science with a concentration in Environmental Engineering. She taught STEM subjects to elementary and middle school students throughout high school, and is excited to continue teaching with ORMC. Outside of school, she enjoys hiking, traveling, and reading.

Kason Ancelin is a second-year undergraduate studying Applied Mathematics at UCLA. He will be an instructor in the Olympiads Training course. His academic interests outside of mathematics include economics, game theory, and physiological and nutrition science. Outside of the classroom, he enjoys athletics and hanging out with friends in the dorm lounges. His best friend is Sanjit D, also an instructor for the Math Circle. See Sanjit below.

Mohit Bansil Mohit Bansil is a PhD student in math studying analysis.

America Barrera is a second year undergraduate at UCLA studying Data Theory. She is an active member in the Regents Scholar Society and Salsa Society at UCLA. In her free time she enjoys dancing, trying new foods, and exploring LA!

Andreas Boulios Andreas Boulios is a UCLA undergraduate student, studying mathematics.

Preston Carroll Preston Carroll is an UCLA alumnus of the Class of 2019, graduating with a degree in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics with a minor in Mathematics. He is currently a biochemistry researcher at UC Irvine, focusing on muscular dystrophies as well as DNA damage and repair mechanisms.

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William Chen William Chen is a 9th grader. He likes to read and play video games. He has gotten an honorable mention on the USAJMO math contest, and has qualified for AIME 3 times. He is happy to have the opportunity to volunteer in Math Circle.

Marcus Collins is a freshman at the Harvard-Westlake school. He has been attending ORMC since second grade, and this is his first year as an assistant instructor for the Beginners 1C class. He loves visual math, like graph theory and knot theory. Outside of school, he loves to row and plays the saxophone for his school band. This previous year, his Latin team won the state championship for Certamen, a Latin quizbowl.

Natalie Deering is a high school junior and is excited to help teach the Advanced 1A group as an assistant instructor. She has attended UCLA Math Circle for 8 years. Her mathematical interests include set theory and analysis. Outside of math, she enjoys music, history, and hiking.

Vivian Dinson Vivian Moy-Dinson is a K-5 teacher for the past 17 years. She received her Masters with honors in Education from Azusa Pacific University and her Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Studies from Cal Poly Pomona University. Vivian joined the Math Circle in 2017.

Sam Eisenbach Sam Eisenbach is a sophomore at UCLA completing a double major in math and physics. He is passionate about helping kids deepen their understanding of math.

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Konstantin Gaydev is a rising senior attending North Hollywood High School. A long time student of the Math Circle, he is excited to teach mathematics to other students. He loves playing video games in his spare time.

Matthew Gherman is a graduate student in the UCLA Department of Mathematics. He has worked as an assistant and now a lead instructor in the Math Circle for a few years. He enjoys running and rooting for DC sports and, his alma mater, Duke.

Oleg Gleizer Oleg Gleizer is a pedagogical innovator. His daily job is creating the 21st century math curriculum. Dr. Gleizer takes the best from the great textbooks and teachers of the past, mostly Russian and American, and adds the math typically taught in college, adjusting it to the cognitive level of his students, from kindergarten to 12th grade. Dr. Gleizer has graduated with honors from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics at Moscow State University, got his Ph.D. in math at Northeastern University, and was a Post. Doc. and assistant professor at UCLA Department of Mathematics.

Mya Greene Quargs Greene is a graduate of USC from the Music and Linguistics programs. Quargs has been a docent at ORMC for the past seven years and is currently a part-time freelancer.

Daniel Hoff is the Curriculum and Instructional Supervisor for the math circle advanced groups. He received his PhD in Mathematics from UC San Diego in 2016 and now researches and teaches as a postdoc in the UCLA Department of Mathematics, where his primary research is in functional analysis, with a focus on operator algebras and their connections to fields such as ergodic theory and measured group theory. He has been working with the math circle since 2017, when he first had the opportunity to be amazed by its students and program.

Logan Hyslop is a second year undergraduate at UCLA, broadly interested in many forms of abstract nonsense. My interests will be kept more up to date on my website here: https://loganhyslop.github.io/.

Morgan Joeck Morgan Joeck is excited to be part of the Math Circle again. He teaches algebra and geometry for LAUSD at Bishop Conaty ? Our Lady of Loretto. He went to UCLA for his Bachelor?s degree in psychology and Master?s degree in education. Morgan is a member of the California Mathematics Council and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and attends their local and national conferences annually.

Nakul Khambhati is a second year undergraduate studying Mathematics and Computer Science at UCLA. He is interested in pursuing a PhD in theoretical computer science. In his free time, he enjoys playing sports and board games.

Sasha Kononova is a second-year undergraduate studying math and physics. Outside of STEMey pursuits, she enjoys listening to and playing music--she plays piano and a bit of classical guitar--, writing, researching random topics from dissociative identity disorder to the evolution of the mythology J.R.R. Tolkien created, of which she has been a fan for many years.

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Hannah Lee is a high school student who has been a student at the Circle since 7th grade. She is excited to assist the Beginner 1 class! In her free time, she enjoys swimming, running with her dog, reading, programming, and listening to music.

Kevin Li Kevin Li is a fourth year Applied Mathematics major with an intention of double majoring in computer science. He informally taught advanced single variable calculus classes with teachers in his high school alongside taking computation and competition preparation courses at WCSU. He loves music (esp. piano), tennis, and playing games.

Curtis Liu is a second year undergraduate studying Mathematics at UCLA. He has experience in various math competitions and enjoys helping students with problem solving.

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Seth Nabat is a rising sophomore in high school. He loves studying complex analysis and theoretical quantum physics. Outside of math, Seth enjoys composing on the piano, programming, and biking around Los Angeles. He is excited to help teach the Beginners 1 classes this summer!

Sumith Nalabolu is a second year undergraduate student at UCLA studying math and computer science. He participated in math competitions throughout middle school and high school, and has taught classes at the San Diego Math Circle. Aside from math, his other interests include basketball, speedcubing, and watching anime.

Aditee Prabhutendolkar Aditee Prabhutendolkar is a freshman at Caltech with a major in Computational and Neural Systems and a minor in CS. She attended LAMC throughout middle school and high school and created a branch of the math circle in the Arcadia school district. She is excited to be the co-lead instructor of the AMC preparation class.

Maksym Prokopovych is an ORMC alumnus and 4th year Computer Engineering undergraduate at UCLA. Maksym found his love for math in the 7 years he was a student with ORMC and is glad to return to the program as a docent to inspire the next generation of math lovers.

Nathan Quirion is an undergraduate transfer student at UCLA majoring in pure mathematics. He has previously attended LAMC/ORMC for 7 years and has served as a TA in physics at his community college. In addition to math and physics, he enjoys studying topics such as philosophy, Latin, anthropology, and the connections between seemingly disparate subjects. In his spare time, he draws and writes fantasy fiction.

Shriya Rajesh is a Junior in high school. She is interested in math and likes to teach others math as well. She also likes programming and solving challenging problems.

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Michael Salko is a high school student who has been with the ORMC since the third grade and is very enthusiastic about mathematics.

Andy Shen is a fourth year Computer Science undergrad. He joined the Math Circle in 2020, and is excited to pass on his mathematical passion through teaching. In his free time, Andy enjoys sketching and reading to unwind, and playing volleyball/basketball to let loose.

Robert Shen Bobby Shen graduated from MIT in 2017. He works at a startup in the West Los Angeles area working on audio / video signal processing. He othought it would be fun to suddenly join the UCLA Math Circle in free time but it was very strange timing.

Hannah Steinberg is a rising third-year undergraduate double-majoring in Cognitive Science and Statistics. She was a math circle student starting at age 7.

Glenn Sun is a fourth-year undergraduate math major at UCLA. He is strongly interested in combinatorics and theoretical computer science, and has experience TAing for classes in various high school summer programs. In his free time, he watches anime and Kdramas, cooks, and plays video games.

Chynna Swift is a fourth year pre-med student majoring in microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics (MIMG) and minoring in Spanish. She has a passion for math and she is honored to be able to carry on Olga Radko‘s legacy by showing young students the beauty of math as well. This will be her 4th year in the Math Circle and she is excited to be the lead instructor of Intermediate 1B this year. She loves that she has been able to see her students grow as mathematicians and kind humans over the years! Outside of Math Circle, she is involved in virology research, she is a part in UCLA’s Afrikan Student Union as president of Curls U, and she loves going to concerts, Disneyland, and the beach.

Raymond Tao Raymond Tao is a first-year undergraduate at UCLA majoring in mathematics. He participated in math competitions throughout high school and has a passion for teaching math to others. He comes from Ohio and was a member of the Ohio All-State ARML team. In his spare time, he judges at tournaments for his high school policy debate team. He hopes to study math in graduate school someday.

Yan Tao is a third-year undergrad pure mathematics major here at UCLA, and this is his third year teaching at the LAMC. In the future he plans to go to graduate school to study differential geometry or another closely related mathematical area. Before coming to UCLA, he taught some classes of a similar nature for the San Diego Math Circle in high school. He also has plenty of competition math experience from elementary school, middle school, high school, and here at UCLA, where he scored in the top 500 on last year’s Putnam. He is also a peer mentor for the UCLA Regents Scholar Society.

Rui Wang is a second-year undergraduate studying mathematics. Outside of school, he enjoys jazz and orchestral music, playing tennis, and working out. Currently, he is an assistant instructor for the Beginners 2B section.

Emily Widjaja is a second-year undergraduate student at UCLA. She is majoring in Financial Actuarial Mathematics. In her free time, she enjoys playing tennis, music, and meeting new people.

Lenny Wu is a second year undergraduate student pursuing majors in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at UCLA. In her free time, she makes recipes and shoots photos for her food blog, Vegamelon. She also enjoys running, lifting weights, reading, and playing piano. Lenny has tutored students in math and other STEM subjects since high school, and she is always thrilled to help others learn.

Jerry Yang is a rising third-year undergraduate student majoring in mathematics and economics. He is interested in the theory of pure mathematics as well as how it applies to other fields like economics. He likes teaching math to younger students, and have tutored multiple high school students on calculus classes. In his spare time, he likes running, playing the piano, and playing games.

Jiarui Yu Jiarui Yu is a third-year undergraduate student at UCLA, majoring in Computational Mathematics.

Huaxing Zeng is a third-year undergraduate double majoring in applied math and economics here at UCLA. She is passionate in exploring fun and entertaining ways to appreciate math. She is excited to be working with ORMC this quarter as an assistant instructor.

Qiao Zhang is a high school freshman who joined Math Circle in 2nd grade and is currently an assistant instructor for the Intermediate 2 class. Qiao is passionate about math and is an avid problem solver, getting perfect scores in the AMC 8 and AMC 10 competitions. He qualified for USAJMO since 7th grade and is a recipient of the Spirit of Ramanujan Fellowship. Qiao is excited to pass his love for math to his peers. Besides math, Qiao is also a passionate solo and chamber music player. In his spare time, he enjoys playing chess and board games with his friends, creating math problems, and taking “mathematical” walks with his family.

Frank Zheng Frank Zheng is a third-year UCLA student studying math and computer science. He loves working with students and is excited to be an instructor for ORMC! Outside of school, he enjoys reading, making digital art, and learning new things.

Erica Zhou is a second-year undergraduate student at UCLA studying Mathematics/Economics and Statistics. She has been playing Go, a traditional Chinese chess game, for more than 10 years and enjoyed exploring the interconnection between Go and math. In her free time she also enjoys watching movies/dramas, playing volleyball, painting, cooking, and reading. Having tutored students with math, English, and Go since middle school, Erica is thrilled to join ORMC!

Hongyu Zhu is a third-year undergraduate student at UCLA. His major is pure mathematics. He likes to talk about mathematical ideas with friends. He served as the leader of his high school math club for two years. Apart from mathematics, he also likes running, reading, and playing the piano. His favorite natural number is currently 112.

Sophie Zhu is a rising senior at Pali. She has been with the Math Circle for several years and is excited to teach younger students. Outside of math, she enjoys playing violin, swimming, and crocheting.