Programming Teams
My associations in programming contests – team members I coached at Georgia Tech, and my own coach when I was a team member at UCF
My Coach
David Van Brackle
My own coach at the University of Central Florida (UCF) was David Van Brackle. UCF is well known in the US Southeast Region as nearly always at the top in ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contests. Our faculty advisor was Dr. Ali Orooji. My team placed 2nd and 8th in the Southeast Region in 1991 and 1992, respectively.
After completing my Master’s, I moved from UCF to Georgia Tech for my PhD work, where I started coaching the Georgia Tech teams and took them to a few top spots (Southeast Regional toppers, finalists, and to two World Finals contests in Nashville, USA and Eindhoven, Netherlands). After a few years of coaching the Georgia Tech teams, I had to stop coaching to focus on my PhD research. At that time, David was in Atlanta, and I invited him to take over as the Georgia Tech coach, which he did and took them to great heights.
Members I Coached
Below are a few great programmers who happened to be in the teams I coached at Georgia Tech.
Vu Pham
Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: Data Science Consultant
Chameleon Collective
Peter Lindstrom
Georgia Institute of Technology
Now: Computer Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Brian McNamara
Georgia Institute of Technology
Corey Rhoden
Georgia Institute of Technology