Meet the COMP2521 Team!

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Lecturer

Kevin Luxa

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Course Admin

Ethan Brown

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How regular is your sleep schedule?

Thanks to Outlook's scheduled emails feature, extremely regular as far as everyone else knows...

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Tutor

Madhav Kumar

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What is something every Sydneysider should know about?

There are a tonne of really awesome national parks in and around Sydney that you can do fun hikes in! A lot of them are near the city and a lot of them are even accessible by public transport – get a group of people together and go if you haven't before!

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Tutor

James Davidson

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Most sane COMP2521 take?

Complexity analysis is just astrology for algorithms

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Tutor

Sankalpa Tripathee

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What is the strangest thing you've cooked?

A goldfish. No Questions

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Tutor

Kane Walter

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What's one career you wish you could have?

I love sports so my ultimate career would be professional basketball or tennis player. I'm into endurance training at the moment so doing triathlons professionally would be pretty sweet as well.

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Tutor

Nila Riahi

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How did the program die?

It was executed.

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Tutor

Tay Leung

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CrossAngles or Notangles?

CrossAngles SLAYYYYYYYY 🔥 also the guy who made it is so cool - he's at Moore College now 🫶🏼

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Tutor

Kevin Luong

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If you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life what would it be?

Hotpot.

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Tutor

Daniel Lin

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What animal do you most look like?

A monkey...

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Tutor

Felix Cao

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What is your least favorite food?

My least favourite food is eggplant. I don't understand why it exists or what it's purpose on Earth is...

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Tutor

Franco Reyes

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What are your most used emojis?

💀, 👍, 😔

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Tutor

Nick Liu

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Any advice for your students?

Study hard, make the most out of us tutors (we're here to help!!) and have fun :).

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Tutor

Martin Knezevic

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Where did you go on your most recent holiday?

Darwin

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Tutor

Patrick Galea

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Got any life advice?

In programming terms:

Go and C the print("Hello World") && for i in 1.. {
    let explore:string = 'Opportunities';
    String make = "Memories";
    const eat = "Yummy Food";
    std::string alwaysHave = "FUN!";
}
Bonus marks (unofficial) if you can figure out the 8 programming languages I reference, and what food I am eating :))

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Tutor

Harry Zhang

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Where are you in your photo?

I'm in Shimo-Kitazawa, the place where my favourite anime, Bocchi the Rock is set!

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Tutor

Amanda Liu

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If you could have an unlimited supply of one thing, what would it be?

Up&Go Choc Ice!

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Gordon Huang

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What's your favourite drink?

A home-made lactose-free milk tea with 35% oat milk, 25% soy milk, 25% almond milk, 15% rice milk, black tea and a tablespoon of coconut cream, adjust milk ratios to your liking, cheers! 🥂

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Tutor

Abby Carungay

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Why do you look so tired?

I stay up until 2am drawing art far too often

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Thomas Liang

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What's your most prized possession?

My point-and-shoot camera, which I bring everywhere I can!

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David Connick

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Can you describe your coding style with a food analogy?

Fried rice! I hack things together until it suits my taste. I like to throw some rEGGex into the mix when I can 😊

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Jasper Na

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If elected as head of CSE, what would be your big change?

All desks would be converted to treadmill workstations (Linus Trovald style), and water bubblers changed to Kombucha taps.

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Tutor

Blake Morris

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What's on your desk?

A Zelda Game and Watch and a receipt printer that prints out all the emails I get

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Ilha Jung

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Why does your hairline look like that?

Cos I didn't want to take the L, so I took the M

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Ming Mo

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What's the best sport?

In my opinion the most enjoyable is cycling! Cycling with friends is really relaxing and even better if you can integrate it into your commute. Remember to wear a helmet :)

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Frank Jia

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What dog breed would you be?

A border-collie.

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Nic Furst

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What do you like to do most in your free time?

I love Travel, Hiking, and all things Motorsport!

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Josh Lim

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What is your favourite orange vegetable?

Carrots

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Alex Brown

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What are your favourite pasttimes?

Making coffee and game engines

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Tutor

Lewis Cullen

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What do you like to do?

Changes very often but at the moment I like to grapple + neglect uni 🙂

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Tutor

Vivian Wang

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What's a fun fact about you?

I have voluntary nystagmus which means I can vibrate/wobble my eyeballs (it's also what I use everytime as a fun fact)

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Michelle Wong

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What's a shower thought you've had recently?

The people you'll ever possibly connect most with in your entire life, could never meet you properly if you spoke different languages.

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Ryan Berlee

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What are you overthinking right now?

What answer I should put here.

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Lab Assistant

Yash Khandelwal

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Where is your dream place to work from?

A ski chalet nestled in the heart of the wilderness.

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Hayton Lam

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Why do you do law?

Because I like to suffer. Oh, and I like to argue with people... allegedly :3

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Nyah Inglis

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Where are you from?

I grew up in Hobart and moved up to Sydney for uni in 2022 and now I live on campus :))

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Callum Berry

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What is your number one bucket list destination?

The top of my bucket list at the moment would be a scuba diving trip to Raja Ampat.

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Lab Assistant

Gerald Huang

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Does P = NP?

Yes, just let N = 1 or P = 0.