Meet the COMP2521 Team!

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Lecturer

Tahereh Hassanzadeh

She/Her

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Course Admin

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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Course Admin

Ryan Berlee

He/Him
What are your thoughts on persistence and niche data structures?

If at first you don't succeed, try trie again.

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Tutor

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 Torvalds style), and water bubblers changed to Kombucha taps.

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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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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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Tutor

Martin Knezevic

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Where did you go on your most recent holiday?

Darwin

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Tutor

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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Freya D'Mello

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

Ask and ye shall receive!

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Anaf Sayed

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What is your favourite programming language?

English.

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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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Tutor

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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Benedict Setiawan

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What's your go-to order?

Five whoppers, and five, more whoppers

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Samin Islam

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What do you like doing in your spare time?

Overanalysing whatever my current favourite show/movie is (and trying to get everyone to understand why it's peak fiction)

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Tutor

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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Tutor

Jayden Lam

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What is your weirdest hobby?

Late night Lime biking 🚴

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Chris Wang

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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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Jethro Rosettenstein

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Why did Emperor Qin Shi Huang refuse to boot BSD on any of his machines?

He was tired of his UNIX scheming against him

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Tutor

William Yang

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Where is the best place to eat in Sydney?

MALATANG ZHANG LIANG CHINATOWN 💯💯💯

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Shay Middleton

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How do you do well in Comp2521?

You trie!!! :)

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Ray Miles

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What are some fun facts about marine biology?

  1. Sponges, corals and sea anemones are animals
  2. Scallops have up to 200 eyes
  3. Mantis shrimps, which are neither shrimps nor mantises, can punch things with the force of a bullet

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Nathaniel Ooi

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What's the best lunch spot on campus?

Yallahhh 🔛🔝🔥

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Dorothy Koo

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What's something people wouldn't be able to guess about you?

I've been hit by a car

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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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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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Hellen Wang

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What is your greatest ability?

The ability to always suggest the best restaurants to try around the city - I'm curating my list 😝

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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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Shree Baskar

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What is your go-to sorting algorithm?

quantum bogosort

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Jackson Wang

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elllooo

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Donald Danilo

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What's a life lesson COMP2521 taught me?

Learning about trees will help you understand a heap.

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Ronnie Low

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Favourite port?

27015

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Siobhan Thou

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How much money have you spent on blind boxes in the past year?

Let's talk about binary search trees instead...

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Angel Yu

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What's your favourite food combination that surprisingly works well together?

Tofu tiramisu! genuinely better than og tiramisu im being so serious rn

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Adam Gottlieb

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You didn't celebrate your 21st?

That's right, but I celebrated 7500 days which easily made up for it. Now I'm looking forward to my 8191st

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Parham Sepasgozar

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What's your biggest strength?

Optimism. I genuinely believe I'll be early next time.

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Samuel Mu

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Help, I am stuck on a question, what do I do?

Just throw a hashmap at it.

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Owais Wangde

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Why did the linked list break up with the array?

It needed some space.