Staff – Summer Program

Dr. Titu Andreescu, University of Texas at Dallas, AMSP Director

  • US IMO Team Leader (1995 – 2002)
  • Director, MAA American Mathematics Competitions (1998 – 2003)
  • Director, Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program (1995 – 2002)
  • Coach of the US IMO Team (1993 – 2006)
  • Member of the IMO Advisory Board (2002 – 2006)
  • Chair of the USAMO Committee (1996 – 2004)
  • MAA Sliffe Award winner for Distinguished Teaching

 

Faculty

Dr. Dorin Andrica, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  • Chairman, Department of Geometry, Babes-Bolyai University (1995 – present)
  • Member of the National Council for the Romanian Mathematical Olympiad
  • Mathcamp problem-solving instructor (2001 – 2005)

Dr. Joshua Nichols-Barrer, University of Western Ontario, Canada

  • MOSP instructor (2005, 2006)
  • IMO Silver Medalist (1995, 1997)
  • USAMO First Place Samuel Greitzer-Murray Klamkin Award winner (1997)
  • USAMO Winner (1995 – 1997)

Dr. Mircea Becheanu, University of Bucharest, Romania

  • Deputy Chairman of the Romanian Mathematical Society (1995 – present)
  • Coach of the IMO Romanian team (1996-2002)
  • Leader of the IMO Romanian team (1988, 1995-2002)
  • Member of the IMO Advisory Board (1998-2002)
  • Member of the IMO Problem Selection Committee (2003, 2004, 2005)

Bogdan Enescu, National College BP Hasdeu, Romania

  • IMO Gold Medalist (1978), Bronze Medalist (1977, 1979)
  • Coach of the Romanian IMO team (1989 – present)
  • Deputy Leader of the Romanian IMO team(1995 – present)
  • MOSP invited speaker(1999, 2001, 2002)

Dr. Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University

  • IMO Gold Medalist (1985)
  • MOSP Instructor (1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2006 – present)
  • US IMO Deputy Leader (2008)

Dr. Oleg Mushkarov, Bulgarian Academy of Science; Institute of Mathematics and Informatics

  • Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (1979 – present)
  • Head of Department of Complex Analysis (2002 – present)
  • Bulgarian IMO Team Leader (1994 – 1998)
  • Member of the Scientific Group for preparation of talented students (1984 – present)

Dr. Walter Stromquist, Swarthmore College

  • MOSP instructor, 2002
  • Math Magazine, editor

Dr. Jonathan Kane, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

  • Member of the AIME Committee (2004 – present)
  • Co-founder of the Purple Comet! Math Meet (formerly the UWW-UTD Math Meet)

 

Junior Faculty

Brian Basham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Two time USAMO qualifier
  • MOSP qualifier 2007
  • 1st Place HMMT Combinatorics Subject Test 2008
  • AMC 10 Perfect Score 2005

Ivan Borsenco, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • IMO Gold Medalist (2006), Bronze Medalist (2003 – 2005)
  • Assistant Editor, Mathematical Reflections (2005 – present)

Juan Ignacio Restrepo, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia

  • IMO Silver Medalist (2004), Bronze Medalist (2003)
  • Iberoamerican Mathematical Olympiad Silver Medalist (2003), Bronze (2002)
  • International Mathematics Competition Second prize winner (2005, 2006)

Ivan Matic, University of California Berkley

Leonardo Urbina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Visiting Faculty

Dr. Harold Reiter, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

  • Member of the College Board’s College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) Pre Calculus Mathematics Committee
  • Chair of the MAA’s Edith May Sliffe Award Committee.
  • Former chair of the MATHCOUNTS Question Writing Committee
  • Former member of AIME and USAMO committees
  • Former chair of SAT II Test Development Committee with ETS. advanced mathematics

Naoki Sato, Art of Problem Solving (2005 – present)

  • First Place on Canadian Mathematical Olympiad, 1993
  • IMO Silver Medalist, 1992, Bronze Medalist, 1993
  • Deputy Leader of the Canadian IMO team (1997, 2002, 2006)
  • Member of the Canadian Mathematical Olympiad Committee

Dr. Zoran Sunic, Texas A&M University

  • Deputy Leader of the Macedonian IMO team
  • Coach of the US IMO Team (2002)
  • Member of the USAMO Committee (2005 – present)

 

Assistants

Alex Anderson, Washington University at St. Louis

Teodora Andrica, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Craig Burkhart, Harvey Mudd College

Marius Craciunoiu, San Jose State University

Emily Herzig, University of Texas at Dallas

William Li, Rice University

Radu Sorici, University of Texas at Dallas

Holden Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sameer Deshpande, University of North Texas

We are in the process of hiring more staff. Please check periodically for updates.