Sheryl HsuCo-FounderSheryl is a Stanford sophomore from San Jose, California. Sheryl has been participating in math competitions since 4th grade and is a 3x AIME qualifier. Sheryl is also strongly interested in research math, attending Stanford University Mathematics Camp (SUMaC) for 2 summers and most recently writing three research papers as part of the MIT PRIMES-USA mathematics research program.
Sharis HsuCo-Founder, PresidentSharis is a senior at Valley Christian High School, where she has competed and placed in competitions such as the AMC 10 and MathCounts. Additionally, she has served as an intern at NASA where she wrote a mathematical based research paper. Along with her growing love for math, she has a passion for dancing, writing, and underwater robotics.
Elias DakhoulTreasurerElias Dakhoul is a 12th-grade student in Lebanon. Elias is currently interested in finance and business as well as computer science. He is always eager to learn about anything and loves to travel. Elias dreams of a future where he can try everything and travel freely to any country he’d like and experience different cultures.
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Teaching Team
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Ethan Mui4/5 Teaching AssistantEthan Mui is a 8th grader at Valley Christian School in San Jose, California. In the past, he had gotten first place in both state and national in the Math Kangaroo competition, which is one of the biggest math competitions in the world. In fifth grade and sixth grade, he was accepted into the Achievement Roll in the AMC 8, a rare feat for someone of his age. Currently, Ethan enjoys playing badminton, coding, and going through and answering puzzle forums and threads on the Art of Problem Solving website.
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Sahiba Kaur4/5 Teaching AssistantSahiba is a sophomore at H. H. Dow High School who enjoys spreading passion to others! After participating in Mathcounts, her love of mathematics grew and she realized the different beauties it had to offer. She continues to explore the different topics as she continues her journey through the AMCs. She hopes to become a computer scientist in the future and in her free time she enjoys playing her violin and relaxing to music.
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Zoey Ting4/5 Teaching AssistantZoey Ting is a sophomore at Valley Christian High School. She has developed her passion in math since middle school, and enjoys the sense of accomplishment from solving problems. She is interested in pursuing a career in the business field, and hopes to expand her scope through working with other business companies. She loves to work with kids and recently discovered her passion in teaching. In Zoey’s free time, she loves to swim, play instruments, and listen to music.
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Laura Lee6/7 Teaching AssistantLaura is a senior at Valley Christian High School who loves sharing her knowledge and uplifting others! Although her main interest is science (as she plans to become a nurse), math is a subject she enjoys learning and teaching. She also loves reading (mostly fiction), crocheting, and kpop
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Sargam MondalCurriculum DesignerSargam is a sophomore at the Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics & Engineering Technologies. She has participated and placed in many math competitions, including ARML, MathCounts, AMC, and USMCA. She is proudest of placing 11th individual on ARML Local. Her favorite subject is geometry. In addition to being a passionate mathematics student, she has earned many accolades in writing and history competitions, including placing in the Top 10 in National History Day and National History Bee. In her free time, she likes to browse AoPS fora, watch YouTube, and listen to music.
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Saraphin
Saraphin Yamba is a current high school senior who is passionate about learning and educating others. Her hobbies include writing, making random checklist and volunteering. She inspires to pursue a career in neurosurgery and to publish a book at least once in her life time.
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Aanya GuptaYouTube Team LeadAanya Gupta lives in San Francisco, California. She attends Stanford Online High School as a 7th grader. She loves to spend time with her friends and swim. She has also been dancing for 7 years and is part of the Youth Company, a group of pre-professional dancers. She is so excited to work with you this year!
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Leah NingTutorLeah is currently an 11th grader at Valley Christian High School, and she has been blessed with many opportunities to teach younger students. Through Madam Math Circle, Leah hopes that she can help encourage other females while continuing to support the younger generation. When she has free time, Leah enjoys conversing and playing sports with elderly people as they almost always have invaluable advice to offer.
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Social Media Team
Hoang Khanh (HK) PreechasupanyaSocial Media Team LeadHoang Khanh is a sophomore at Singapore International School Saigon South situated in Vietnam. He is a self-taught programmer who specializes in the front-end development of websites. In school, he balances his joy for chemistry and mathematics with sports such as volleyball and tennis. Beyond that, Hoang Khanh enjoys putting himself in programs and communities that support teens like him to pursue a positive change to the world. He is a RISE challenger and is among the 100 finalists.
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Annabelle LinAnnabelle has always enjoyed expanding her knowledge of math at school and now wants to help other females improve their math skills in a nurturing environment. She’s part of the social media team here at Madam Math Circle. Some of her favorite hobbies include reading, playing tennis, and doing color guard.
Sofia ClarkSophia Clark is a junior at Valley Christian High School. She enjoys learning math and helping others learn it too! Her passion lies in rowing, and she hopes to get involved in business in the upcoming years. Aside from rowing, she enjoys listening to music, spending time in nature, and hanging out with friends.
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Prisca HePrisca He is a senior at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, heavily involved in the STEM program. After the summer of her sophomore year, she realized she loved being the person in charge of organizing people's work together for everyone to see, and when an opportunity arose to volunteer to organize the social media for Madam Math Circle, she was more than thrilled to experience the feeling of collaboration with others and showcasing what goes on in Madam Math Circle. In Prisca's free time, she loves to study coding, swimming, and reading webtoons.
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Mexico Chapter
Elena Ponce LlamasChapter LeadElena is an freshman at the Instituto Educativo de Tabasco Carlos Pellicer Cámara. She has been participating in math competitions since she was six years old. She has won twice in the math logic competition of her state, and been selected as part of 20 finalists from a group of 1123 students. She has participated six times in her school´s math competition and placed first on numerous occasions. Her first language is Spanish, and her second language is English. She enjoys math, writing, and languages.
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India Chapter
Sunaina PatiChapter LeadSunaina is a senior from Sarala Birla Gyan Jyoti, India. Being into competition math for 6 years, she has participated in a lot of math competitions. A few of her significant achievements include attending the 2021 International Math Olympiad training camp and winning the Iranian Geometry Olympiad 2021 Advanced honorable mention. She loves geometry, number-theory and combinatorics. Apart from competitive math, she loves listening to K-POP, writing posts for her math blog, creating digital art and laughing at her own lame jokes.
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Gunjan AggarwalTeaching AssistantGunjan is a junior from India studying in Delhi Public School Faridabad. She has enjoyed olympiad math ever since she was nine, and has participated in numerous contests over the past few years. She is most proud of her title as youngest ever Indian participant in European Math Girl's Olympiad and has attended International Math Olympiad training camp twice. She also bagged silver in Iranian Geometry Olympiad, has a qualifier diploma in Sharygin geometry olympiads. When she's not doing math, she loves to sketch occasionally, cry to Taylor Swift and make Buzzfeed posts.
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Swastika DebCurriculum DesignerSwastika is a junior grader from India studying in Delhi Public School Ruby Park Kolkata. She has been doing competition math for two years and her favorite subjects are geometry and number theory. Apart from math, she loves listening to Taylor Swift songs and playing the guitar.
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Newsletter Team
Audrey GuoAudrey currently lives in California and is a junior this year! In her free time, she enjoys playing sports/exercising, drawing, and playing guitar. She also really like to travel, and fun fact, she’s actually been to over 30 countries in her life! She is really glad to be a part of the Madam Math Circle team, and can't wait to meet you all!
Zulfiyya KishiyevaZulfiyya is an 11th grader from Baku, Azerbaijan. She is an alumnus of Stanford University Mathematics Camp, Canada/USA Mathcamp, Stanford Pre-Collegiate University-Level Online Math & Physics, and European School Summer Camp. Zulfiyya is Chief Mathematics Interpreter of Khan Academy Azerbaijan with 3 years of volunteering experience and was awarded the Volunteer Excellence Award. She is Co-President of Elevate the Future Azerbaijan and International Youth Math Challenge Ambassador. Currently, Zulfiyya is working on her second research project and is looking forward to being a part of the Madam Math Circle volunteering team!
Yaren ŞahinYaren (17), whose sociability has increased with the pandemic, lives in Turkey. She cares a lot about chasing new opportunities, being a pioneer to others and improving herself. She is interested in entrepreneurship and programming, as well as social sciences.
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Blog Team
Natalia KokoromytiBlog Team LeadNatalia Kokoromyti is a high school senior from Athens, Greece. Since elementary school she has been involved in competition mathematics (bronze medalist at the Greek National Olympiad 2021) and in research projects on cryptography and combinatorics. After meeting Sheryl, the co-founder of Madam Math Circle, at the Stanford University Mathematics Camp-Program II she got really inspired by what this program aims to achieve. This is why she started the math blog here; to give all these aspiring young female mathematicians content she wishes she had read while in middle school. Content that hopefully will provide readers with the confidence and intellectual fearlessness to dive headfirst into the most powerful mathematics!
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