Meet Our Team!
Composed of experienced high school students, our team is highly passionate about STEM. Each of us has had unique experiences with mathematics and science, and we wish to share our ideas and grow together with fellow students. Learn more about us below!
Founder
Edward Zheng
Eddy is a senior from Livingston High School. He is highly passionate about applied mathematics and computer science. On the side, he enjoys writing, fencing, teaching, and the violin.
Since joining the prestigious Columbia University Science Honors Program (SHP) after his freshman year, Eddy has enjoyed various enrichment courses such as “Abstract Mathematics through Knots”. In particular, advanced subjects exploring Data Science, Algorithms, and Complex Analysis have sparked his interest in real-world applications of mathematics and computing.
Eddy has extensive experience in math and creative writing. As a mathlete, he has earned AMC 8 Honor Rolls and continued his success throughout high school. In his freshman and sophomore years, Eddy qualified for the American Invitational Mathematics Exam (AIME), and earned the Distinguished Honor Roll. Heavily involved in Science Olympiad and Math Circles, Eddy has found ways to apply mathematics in balsa engineering, research, and even roller-coaster design. As a creative writer, Eddy loves sketching out meaningful thoughts from his daily life to craft poems, critical essays, and short stories. In the last three years, he has won many Scholastic Arts & Writing awards and contributed his work to blogs and literary magazines.
Competition Math Director
Jie Wu
Jie is a junior from Shanghai Starriver Bilingual School.
Jie is very interested in Math, Physics, and biology. He has made great accomplishments in various math competitions. He has scored China National Top 10% in the AMC 8 at 2020 American Mathematics Competition and reached the score of 90 or above in in AMC 10 at 2021 American Mathematics Competition. In 2022, Jie won Gold medal in the Pacer round at MiNi Math Tournament at Berkeley.
Jie also loves playing basketball and has a deep passion for debate. In 2021, Jie reached the Double-Octofinal Round in The National High School Debate League of China. In 2022, his debate team won 4th in the UDM Tufts BP Tournament International Division
Biology Director
Kathie Wang
Kathie is a junior from West Windsor-Plainsboro South.
Kathie’s favorite subject at school is Biology, scoring a 5 in her AP Biology exam at 9th grade. Kathie has attained great accomplishments in various biology and bioinformatics competitions. At the Science Olympiad National Invitational
(January 2022), her team placed 4th out of 246 teams in the Bioinformatics event and 11th out of 246 teams in the Botany at the event. In March 2022, Kathie received the Bronze award for the British Biology Olympiad.
Kathie is also exploring her research interests at Waksman Student Scholars Program—both studying isolated and sequenced genes from a cDNA library of the duckweed plant (Landoltia punctata) and comparing gene expression between duckweed and other aquatic plant species.
High School Math Director
Eric Xing
Eric is a senior from Montgomery High School.
While Eric enjoys the interpretive nature of English and History, he mainly focuses on math and science. He’s succeeded in all his high school courses, and loves sharing his extensive experience with AP exams. His expertise has also carried over to Science Olympiad and Trajectory, in which his team qualified for nationals and placed Top 10 at the MIT Invitational. Since 2020, Eric’s team has also been a top scorer in the annual TEAMS competition. Eric is also fluent in programming and machine learning. He helped developed an image recognition network using YOLOv3 and Google Collab, and applied AI to quadcopters and hexacopters for racing and gate detection.
As a seasoned saxophonist, Eric has won various competitions such as the Golden Key Music Festival and the AAFA at Carnegie and Merkin Hall. Eric was also invited to perform as the soloist in front of a professional musician for a masterclass.
Middle Math Director
Angela Sun
Angela is a sophomore from Wilberforce School.
As a straight A student, one of Angela’s favorite subjects is math. She has prepared for the Math Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools (MOEMS) and won second place in the MOEMS multiple times. Angela has also played the piano for many years and won first place in an NJMTA Young Musicians competition. Angela is an avid reader and loves writing short stories.
Angela enjoys sharing her knowledge to help younger students. Currently, she is working as a teaching assistant in a local Chinese school. She is also participating in another tutoring program for elementary school students.
