Meet the COMP2521 Team!

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Lecturer

Sushmita Ruj

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Lecturer

Hao Xue

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What do you want to do?

Retire

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Course Admin

Kevin Luxa

He/Him

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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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Course Admin

Ryan Berlee

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What are you overthinking right now?

What answer I should put here.

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Tutor

Dong Loo

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What's your favourite board game to date?

Slay the Spire: The Board Game

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Kane Walter

He/Him
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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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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Tay Leung

She/Her
CrossAngles or Notangles?

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

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Michelle Wong

She/Her
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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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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Ming Mo

He/Him
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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Patrick Galea

He/Him
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

Erik Pedersen

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What's something you hear far too often?

Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

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Nila Riahi

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How did the program die?

It was executed.

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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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Franco Reyes

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What are your most used emojis?

💀, 👍, 😔

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Martin Knezevic

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Where did you go on your most recent holiday?

Darwin

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Gordon Huang

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What's your favourite online tool for visualising data structures and algorithms?

https://structs.sh/

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Kevin Tong

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What's the weirdest food you have ever eaten?

Horse sashimi - tbh it was really good and I've never had anything else quite like it

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Daniel Lin

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What animal do you most look like?

A monkey...

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Harry Zhang

He/Him
What bone have you broken?

My pinky! I broke it playing basketball once and never played it again 😞

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Freya D'Mello

She/Her
What's something you've learnt since coming to uni?

Ask and ye shall receive!

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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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Sankalpa Tripathee

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What is the strangest thing you've cooked?

A goldfish. No Questions

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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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Josh Lim

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What is your favourite orange vegetable?

Carrots

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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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Shree Baskar

She/Her
What is your go-to sorting algorithm?

quantum bogosort

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Benedict Setiawan

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What's your go-to order?

Five whoppers, and five, more whoppers

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Ravindu Abeykoon Herath

He/Him
Who covered you in super glue back in primary school???

I did

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Max Lee

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What's your go-to dessert spot?

Yochi! (always pile up on the mochi)

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Chris Wang

He/Him
Favourite bubble tea order?

Thai milk tea with lychee jelly NO PEARLS, half ice, normal sugar (Don't try bribe me!!!) 🧋

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William Yang

He/Him
Where is the best place to eat in Sydney?

MALATANG ZHANG LIANG CHINATOWN 💯💯💯

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Lab Assistant

Alicia Tan

She/Her
What does the R stand for in Recursion?

Recursion

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Meredith Zhu

She/Her
How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?

None, that's a hardware issue

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Hayton Lam

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What are your most mispronounced words?

During high school, I frequently mispronounced melodramatic as melodramic... a close second would be finding out that debris was not 'de-bris', but 'de-bree'.

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Stanley Tang

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How many types of people are there in the world?

10. Those who understand binary and those who don't…

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Lucia Ju

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What's the worst assignment deadline?

9 a.m. in the morning.

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Evan Krul

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What is the passphrase?

Th3 qu1ck br0wn f0x jump5 0ver th3 lazy d0g.

U2FsdGVkX1/xLTOQ7xlcVk1l7Ryc8FbvEan6ymbt/0fOq5c6h3Rt91aQw3BmnhdHqFWpsmQhlwrmtdEuHpHGKRFPnZLRQac2J5bXrHlUwF2vmlEqKWSJ0bDAEUsaL1A5lhwZGr11T6U+RBSeFyu7XlxWJtLlJAANI0YJYy+eHsGkJU4bTHOHbHUoqStHI38tAqkz+XcMHoF8vgjjNcjbPg==
aes-256-cbc pbkdf2 100000 iter

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Lab Assistant

Caitlyn Phan

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So far, what has been your proudest achievement while studying Computer Science at UNSW?

Sleeping 8hrs (almost) every night 😴

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Jackson Wang

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What's your super power?

Extreme-level of indecision on what to eat. No joke, I can turn "what do you want for dinner?" into a 30-minute debate.

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Shay Middleton

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How do you do well in Comp2521?

You trie!!! :)