University of California Santa Cruz

2024 Team Roster

Andrew Barth-Yi:   "My name is Andrew, I'm on the not-so-slow-slugs team at UCSC. I am a fourth year computer engineering student with a big interest in FPGAs, computer architecture, and just about anything low level. My hobbies include: drumming, powerlifting, snowboarding, and audio engineering. Powerlifting specifically has been an integral part of my interest in HPC because of some similarities between the two activities. In powerlifting, you are optimizing a biomechanical problem and tweaking form to lift the most weight your body can handle, and in HPC you optimize the software problem to extract the most flops out of the hardware. Eventually, I want to compete at the national level in powerlifting, and work with bleeding-edge hardware in the data-center (maybe even integrating FPGAs into HPC applications!). The skill that I rely on the most in my academic career and this event is my ability to learn anything and everything - extremely fast. Ever since I transferred to UCSC, my foundational knowledge from computer science classes in community college has allowed me to pickup any language, framework, or library faster than my classmates and I use it to help them out anytime I can. This ability was coerced out of me by some amazing professors and I have to give them a lot of credit for my current academic success."

 

Lino Le Van

 

 

 

 

Gary Mejia Martinez:  "I am Gary Mejia Martinez, a fourth year computer engineering major at UCSC. My interests are in VLSI, FPGAs, EDA, algorithm analysis and complexity theory. Currently I am working on several projects such as a water tap sensor for my capstone project and a place and route back-end for an HDL compiler framework. I am currently exploring what HPC is just for fun with friends from graduate computer architecture. Outside of school I like to cook expensive dishes and play videos games."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dmitry Pleshkov:  "Hello, I'm Dmitry and I'm a computer science student at UC Santa Cruz. I'm a second year student, but I'm already taking classes at the junior and senior level. My interests include cybersecurity, networking, and high performance computing. I'm knowledgeable in C/C++, JavaScript, Java and Python but my favorite language is Rust; I like optimizing and securing things. This is my first HPC competition, and I did not expect it to be as exciting as it already has been -- seeing your scripts run faster and faster is incredibly satisfying."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kenneth Price:  "I'm Kenneth, a senior at University of California, Santa Cruz studying computer engineering! I love to fill my time with tinkering and learning, especially with electronics and computer hardware. My dream is to be part of the design process for a chip that improves people's lives.:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ananthajit Srikanth:  "My name's Ananthajit (I also go by Ant!). I'm a third year undergraduate studying Applied Mathematics and Bioinformatics. I'm interested in systems and compiler design, which I hope to pursue after my undergraduate studies. In my free time, I like to read, watch math videos, write code and play video games!"

 

 

 

 

 

Faculty Advisor/Coach

• Dr. Scott Beamer