Dr. Mushkarov is a full professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS) and a corresponding member of BAS. Currently, he is the Head of the Analysis, Geometry and Topology Department and Deputy Director of IMI-BAS. His main research interests are in the areas of Complex Analysis, Complex Differential Geometry, and Twistor theory.
Another important aspect of Oleg’s professional involvements is his work with mathematically gifted high school students. He himself benefited from the Bulgarian system of identifying mathematical talents at an early age leading to his participation in IMO’1969, Romania. Since then he has been involved in numerous activities dealing with nurturing and developing young mathematical talents.

For more than 20 years I was involved in teaching and coaching the Romanian students for the mathematical competitions (JBMO, BMO, IMO). I wrote two books (together with L. Panaitopol) about how to solve Number Theory problems (books aimed for the students who want to attend the IMO).

Dr. Enrique Trevino is an assistant professor of mathematics at Lake Forest College. Dr. Trevino completed his Ph.D at Dartmouth College in 2011 working in analytic number theory. He participated in the Mexican Mathematical Olympiad in 2000 and 2001 earning silver and gold medals, respectively. Since 2003 he has been preparing students from Chihuahua to compete in the Mexican Mathematical Olympiad. Starting in 2016, Dr. Trevino has been part of the Mexican Mathematical Olympiad Committee. He also participated as a problem coordinator in the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2005, the Ibero-American Mathematical Olympiad in 2009, and the Mexican Mathematical Olympiad in 2015.

Michaela Hubatova is studying for her master’s degree in Mathematical Analysis at Charles University in Prague, Czechia. For the last five years, she has been a member of a team organizing the mathematical seminar (PraSe) for Czech and Slovak high school students. She enjoyed being a teaching assistant for Geometry 1 and Combinatorics 1 classes at four AwesomeMath camps during the last two years – she finds cooperating with campers on solving problems delightful and enriching.
She translated the Purple Comet! Math Meet 2016 problems to Czech and therefore enabled the participants to compare themselves with students from one more country. Besides math, she enjoys traveling, crime novels, and singing in a choir. She hopes to become a full time math teacher one day.

Oleksiy Klurman is a Ph.D candidate at the University College London and University of Montreal. He has been actively involved in coaching the Ukrainian team for the IMO since 2005. He has designed a complete preparation course for the Ukrainian IMO team and individually coached 3 gold, 2 silver, and 4 bronze medalists. He is an active problem proposer for national and international competitions including problems that have been shortlisted for the IMO.

Patrick McClintock has been teaching competitive math for three years. He currently is an instructor at the AwesomeMath Academy, Assistant Director of Curriculum at a local Mathnasium, and a private tutor. He was formerly a fencing coach and dance instructor and still loves to do both when he has time. He loves the interesting problems that come from competition math and the depth of mathematical concepts he gets to teach to young and interested minds.

• IMO Bronze medal (2006)
• Organized Mathematical Correspondence Seminar PraSe (2006 – 2012)
• Organized math competition Naboj (2007 – 2013)
• Ran a math circle for secondary school students (2012 – 2014)
• Taught math at secondary school (2014 – 2015)
• Reached two master’s degrees in Mathematical modeling and Math education in 2012
• Started Ph.D in Math education in 2012
• Teaching at AwesomeMath since 2012
• Developing textbooks for secondary schools (2013 – present)

I am a current Master’s student at University of Cambridge. I completed my undergraduate studies at Imperial College London, where I was ranked 3rd best student in my year and was awarded the IBM Prize for Excellence in Pure Mathematics upon my graduation. During my high school years, I qualified for the shortlist of the Romanian team for IMO in 3 different years, and in my final year was awarded a special prize by the Board of the Romanian Mathematical Olympiad for the best student in my generation.

Stefan David is a research student in Mathematics based in the UK, at University of Cambridge. Working at the department of pure mathematics and being a member of Trinity College, Stefan’s main research interests are in the field of Combinatorics. Stefan was one of the best students in his year studying Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and then graduating a Masters in Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. For two years he’s been supervising undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge and working as a faculty member at Awesome Math Summer Camps. In high school, Stefan qualified every year to the Romanian National Olympiad where he was awarded the gold medal and then to the IMO training camps and further to the Romanian IMO team selections.

Vlad Matei is currently a Ph.D Student in the Mathematics Department at the University of Wisconsin Madison. His research area is Number Theory under the supervision of professor Jordan Ellenberg. He was an active participant in the National Math Olympiads in Romania as a student and afterwards as a trainer and proposer for the IMO training program.

Vlad Crisan is a Ph.D student in Mathematics at University of Goettingen in Germany and has completed his Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Mathematics at University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Ever since 2011, he has been heavily involved in organizing and coordinating several national Mathematics Contests and Math Camps. He has also been teaching courses at the AwesomeMath Summer Camps since 2014. Together with Dr. Titu Andreescu, Vlad has co-authored Math textbooks focused on preparation for Olympiad and contests, serving as reliable resources for any competition-driven students.

• AwesomeMath Summer Program instructor
• Co-author of the “110 Geometry Problems from the IMO” and “Lemmas in Olympiad Geometry” XYZ Press books
• AwesomeMath Year-Round segment author
• AwesomeMath Academy visiting instructor
• 2010 IMO medalist

I received my bachelors degree in mathematics from California State University at Long Beach in 2008 and my doctorate degree from the University of Illinois, specializing in number theory, in 2015. In 2004-2008, I was an assistant coach for the Long Beach Math circle and Southern California ARML (the A team usually finishes in the top 8 in the nation). During my time at the University of Illinois, I served on the Undergraduate Math competition committee, which helps train for the Putnam contest and other competitions. Over the past three years, I’ve been working for AwesomeMath and have enjoyed teaching young students how to succeed in mathematics competitions. For more information about me, you can visit my page at mtip341.wordpress.com.

• Session Leader, San Jose Math Circle, 2004-2008
• Bronze Medal, XXX International Mathematical Olympiad, 1989
• First place, VI Balkan Mathematical Olympiad, 1989
• First place, Bulgarian National Mathematical Olympiad, 1989

Undergraduate student at UC Berkeley studying pure mathematics. He plans to pursue his research interests of Representation Theory and Algebraic Number Theory at a graduate school. Nikolay has been part of AwesomeMath’s faculty since 2013 and greatly enjoys teaching and mentoring students every summer.

Earned his Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin and has been working with the AwesomeMath Summer Program since 2012. He’s been teaching high school mathematics for 20 years during which time he has:

• Increased IB test takers from 15 to 62 during tenure as International Baccalaureate teacher
• Math Team coach for 19 years, coaching several teams that have advanced to state in MATHCOUNTS as well as students who have qualified for AIME and USAJMO
• 2016 recipient of the Edyth May Sliffe Award given by the MAA
• 2007, 2010 West Foundation Award winner in Wichita Falls given to 20 teachers out of 30 schools
• Awarded Teacher of the Year at Hirschi High School in 2016
• Finalist for Wichita Falls ISD secondary teacher of the year award in 2016
• Coached more than 20 UIL State high school math champions in Texas, as well as 10 middle school champions
• Named Hirschi High School Teacher of the year by the Sr. Class of 2017

• Leader of the Polish team for the IMO (years 2003-2007, 2012)
• Composer of 3 problems used at the IMO papers (years 2003, 2004, 2005)
• Member of the IMO Problem Selection Committee (year 2014)
• Associate Editor of the Journal “Mathematics Competitions”
• Chair of the Committee of the Junior Mathematical Olympiad in Poland

Currently a research student at the University of Cambridge in UK under the supervision of Professor Bela Bollobas – one of the world’s leading mathematicians in Combinatorics. His main research interests are in the fields of Combinatorics and Graph Theory. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Mathematics, where he was elected Scholar twice. In high school, he won various prizes in over 50 international and national mathematical competitions. Among the most prominent accomplishments, he was awarded Silver and Bronze Medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad, Two Silver Medals at the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad, Five Gold Medals at the National Mathematical Olympiad, Bronze Medal at the Romanian Master of Mathematics, Gold Medal at Tuymaada International Olympiad in Russia, Gold Medal at South Easter European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students, First Place at Princeton University Mathematics Competition. For one year he has been supervising undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge and working as a faculty member at AwesomeMath Summer Camps.

Pursuing his master’s degree in Mathematics at the University of Milan, Italy. He is a contributor of mathematical magazines for high school and undergraduate students such as Mathematical Reflections, Gazeta Matematica, Recreatii Matematice and he is also a guest editor for the Crux Mathematicorum. He enjoyed his experience as a teacher for Number Sense at the Awesome Math Summer Program during the last year and he loved sharing his passion for problem solving with his students.
As a private tutor in Italy he also helped high school students to improve their mathematical skills through problem solving.
Besides math, he enjoys computer science, playing chess, playing the piano and learning new languages.

Has completed a Master Degree at the University of Cambridge and is now currently a PhD student in the Mathematics Department at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. There, he is doing research in Number Theory under the supervision of professor Samir Siksek. For two years he’s been supervising and teaching problem solving seminars to undergraduate students. As a high-school student, Catalin was an active participant to the Romanian National Olympiad and his participations culminated with winning the First place and Gold medal at the final round in 2010. Since then, he remained actively involved in training students for Olympiads. He was a TA for Dr. Titu Andreescu and Dr. Dorin Andrica in a IMO Training camp in Saudi Arabia, taught several courses at AwesomeMath, coauthored a book for Olympiad training at GIL publishing house and is organizing every year one of the biggest math competitions in his homeland, Transylvania.

Currently a PhD student in the Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department at Johns Hopkins University where she is researching Random Graph Theory under the supervision of Dr. Ed Scheinerman. While at JHU she has taught as the instuctor of record for the undergraduate Discrete Mathematics course and received the Professor Joel Dean Award for Excellence in Teaching. Elizabeth has been teaching Combinatorics and Number Theory at AwesomeMath since 2012 and has served as the Academic Coordinator since 2015.