Colleges and Careers of Top-Five Winners
We welcome information about all Top-Five winners in the David Essner
Competition from the beginning in 1981-82 to the present. All Top-Five winners
and others who know about them are encouraged to correspond through
email at paulmcd@math.miami.edu (on the title page), or fax resumes to
(305)284-2848, or write to Paul McDougle;
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Miami, Coral
Gables, FL.33124
Alphabetic Listing of Top-Five Winners and their Colleges and
Careers ,
Aggarwal, Kapish ...Coral Gables valedictorian (2002)...North
Carolina State University ... Engineering
Airan, Raag ...Mast Academy valedictorian (1999)...Silver
Knights General Scholarship Winner; B.S. Math and Physics MIT 2003;
MD/PHD program Stanford Univ.;
Semi-finalist in Intel Math-Science Competition
Allen, Brad...Miami Sunset (1992)...Bachelors in Physics (Optics)
and Math,Univ. Rochester 1996; Masters in Physics, Cambridge Univ. (UK) 1997;
Masters Education (Math and Physics certified) Univ. Rochester 1998;
Churchill Scholarship (1997, one of 11 national); Teacher of Physics at
East Irondequoit, NY ;stuey@cif.rochester.edu
Bass, Derrick...North Miami Beach(1991)...BA Physics, Harvard;
CalTech Univ.; Bronze medalist in 1989 and Gold medalist in
1991 International Physics Olympiad;
Florida's PRIDE science winner; National Merit Scholar; Google
Baum, Arthur ... Miami Palmetto ...BS Physics and Math, Harvard 2005; Film
Production student at Univ. Southern California
Bustos, Juan ...Miami Springs (2007)...Univ. of Miami math major
Chow, Michael ...Miami Sunset valedictorian ; All-Dade
Scholar Athlete (2003)...Stanford University
Cohen, David ...Ransom Everglade salutatorian <2001>...Univ. of
Pennsylvania
Cothran, Chris ...Miami Sunset (1988)...Physics,
Stanford...Post-Doc Physics, Dept. Physics and Astronomy Swarthmore
College
David, Guy ... Ransom Everglades (2005)...Princeton Univ.
Field, Seth ...North Miami Beach valedictorian (1983)...BS
Biology, MIT 1987; During (1987-1997) attained MD Harvard-M.I.T Div.
Health Science and Technology and Ph.D Harvard Dept. of Genetics;
Internship, Hospital of Univ. of Pennsylvania (1997-1999); Massachusetts
General Hospital Fellowship in Endocrinology (1999-);1983 National Merit
Scholar, Fellowships: Harvard Medical Science Training Program (1987-97),
Dennis Biomedical (1988-92), Albert J. Ryan (1993-96), William Osler Soc.
Fellows in Medicine (1997-99); sfield@mail.med.upenn.edu
Friedman, Marc...Miami Beach valedictorian (1987)...BA (With
Honors) Computer Science, Harvard Univ.(1991);MS Computer Science(Artificial
Intelligence),Univ. Wash(1995); Ph.D. (Data Integration) expected, Univ.
Wash.(Fall 1999);Software Engineer, Kenan Systems Corp. (now sub of ATT)
1991-93; National Merit Scholar, NSF Fellowship (1994), Biked from
Seattle to San Francisco in 17 days (1995), Co-Inventor US Patented
"Method and Process for Information
Access"(1998)...Viathan Corp. Washington State;
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/friedman
Galperin, Gregory...Miami Palmetto valedictorian (1988)...BA
Magna Cum Laude Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering and MS
Computer Science, Harvard Univ. (1988-1992); National Merit Scholar; FL. PRIDE Mathematics
winner;state champion Computer Programming; ACSL top individual; Harvard
programming team, 2-time New England champions (1989,90); Summer
positions with NASA Langley Research Center (1989), Harvard Business
School (1990), Microsoft Corp. (1991), Harvard Univ. (1992), Dragon
Systems, Inc. (1993,94), IBM T.J.Watson Research Center (1995,96);
Cofounder of ITA Software (www.ita.software.com); Deputy Director/Team
Coach USA Computer Olympiad Team;
Garg, Rahul...Coral Gables(1992)...BS Chemical
Engineering(1995), MIT; MD(1999) Duke Univ.Medical School; Internal
Residency John Hopkins Medical Center starting June 1999; Cardiology
Fellowship, John Hopkins ; Honors
include: National Dean's List (1992-95); Summer research positions with
Motorola Inc. (1993) and Bascomb Palmer Eye Institute (1994); Research
Fellowships from Sigma Xi (1997-98) and for study to prevent blindness at
Glaucoma Research Lab, Duke Univ.
Greenfield, Derek ..Palmetto(1998)...Biochemistry,
Harvard...Research staff Physics, Harvard; Physics Graduate Student, Univ. California
Gross, Shawn...Miami Springs valedictorian (1989)...B.S.E. Civil
Engineering
magna cum laude 1993, Tulane; M.S.E Civil Engineering 1995, U.Texas; Ph.D.
Civil Engineering 1998, U.Texas; Asst. Prof. Dept Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Villanova U.; shawn.gross@villanova.edu;
http://www49.homepage.villanova.edu/shawn.gross
Held, David ...Miami Sunset valedictorian (2001)...Mechanical Engineering MIT
Harden, David ...South Miami(1999); Intel
Math-Science finalist - ranked 12th nationally and 3rd among mathematics
participants... BS. Math MIT 2004...PhD Math Program Univ. Miami
Hershbein, Brad ...Miami Killian Salutatorian (1999)... National
Merit Finalist...BS Harvard Economics (2003)...Research Assistant Federal
Reserve Bank of Boston
Kamons, Andrew ...Miami Palmetto
(1997)...Silver Knights Mathematics Winner...MIT (1997-98);
Psychology, Harvard;kamons@fas.harvard.edu
Karpis, John ... Miami Springs (2005)...Engineering; Univ. of
Miami
Kchao, Chamroeun ... North Miami Beach(1984)...BS Electrical
Engineering , Georgia Tech; MS. Mangement; Georgia Tech;
PH.D. Electrical Engineering (1991); Georgia Tech
Koren, Stephen ... Mast Academy(2003)... Silver Knights
General Scholarship Winner... Harvard
LaRue, Jason ...Palmetto (2007)...Gold medalist in
2007 International Physics Olympiad... Harvard
Lieberman, Jeff ...Ransom Everglades (1995)...BSc Mathematics and
Physics; MIT; MS Mechanical Engineering MIT(2004)... MS Student in Media Arts and Science MIT;
Lund, Eric ...Palmetto (1985)...S.B. 1989 MIT...PhD 1996
Dartmouth...Research Scientist, Space Science Center, University of New
Hampshire
Machado, Julio ...Miami Springs valedictorian (1999)...Computer
Science, Harvard
Univ.: National Merit Scholar
Mirmelli, Sean...Ransom Everglades(2000)...Biomedical Engineering Columbia Univ.
Pearson, Robert ...Miami Palmetto(1990)...Princeton
Univ; National Merit Finalist
Pulizzotto, Ian ...North Miami Beach(1991)...Mathematics,
Washington Univ.( St. Louis); PhD, Univ. Michigan, Mathematical
Physics/Probability (2001)
Ramakrishnan, Sandhya ... Miami Palmetto(2006)...MIT
Reich, Eitan ...Miami Beach (2003)...MIT
Richardson, Caroline ... Miami Palmetto(1982) ...Silver
Knights Mathematics Winner...MIT
Richardson, Peter ...Ransom Everglades(1984)...BA Computer
Science, Wesleyan Univ. (CT)(1987); BS Engineering, Cal. Tech
(1989);Programmer Development Systems, Apple Computer Inc.:RPI
Math & Science Award; National Merit Scholar
Rowland, Paul ... Miami Killian(1987)...BS Applied
Math/Stat/Computers, Chicago Univ; Computer Science, Georgia Tech
National Merit Scholar; prowland@csc.com
Seecharan, Beesham ... Miami Sunset (1987)...M.S. Math, Stanford
1991; J.D. Columbia Univ. 1998; Corporate attorney for Davis Polk &
Wardwell (London) beeshamseecharan@dpw.com
Senderov, Gideon ... Miami Sunset (1987)...Univ. of Florida
Shackles, Nathan ... Miami Sunset (1995)...B.S. Engineering
(Industrial/Computer) Univ. Florida 1999; IBM Cary NC; National Merit
Scholarship
Shen, Rene ...Miami Palmetto valedictorian 2001...Harvard;
rshen@fas.harvard.edu
Siegel, Stephen ...North Miami Beach (1984)...B.A. Mathematics,
Univ. Chicago 1988; M.Sc. Mathematics, Oxford Univ. 1989; Ph.D.
Mathematics, Univ. Chicago 1993; Asst. Prof. Mathematics Northwestern
1993-96; Senior Research Scientist, Dept. Computer Science, Univ Mass. ;.
Honors include the
Fellowhips: NSF Postdoc (1993-96), Sloan Foundation (1992-93), ONR
(1989-1992), Fulbright Graduate (1988-89)as well as Paul R. Cohen
Mathematics Prize at Chicago Univ. (1988) and Phi Beta Kappa (1987).
Tam, April (Shin Yan)...Miami Springs valedictorian (2002)...MIT
Tam, Miguel ...North Miami Beach(1986)...Product Design, Stanford
Univ.; National Merit Scholar
Tavernini, Victor ... North Miami Beach(1984)...BS Computer
Science, Univ. Texas; MS Computer Science, Univ Illinois;
Senior Software Engineer at Racal-Milgo; Sportsline USA, Ft. Lauderdale,
FL
Thornton, David ...Gulliver Academy salutatorian (2001)...Univ. of
Pennsylvania
Vacanti, Vinicius ...Miami Killian valedictorian (1999)...
30 local, state and national Mu
Alpha Theta math awards; BS Applied Math, Harvard (2003)...Associate, Quadrangle Group,
The Blackstone Group
Ventura, Rachel ...North Miami Beach(1993)...Math Silver Knights Winner...Harvard
Weinberg, David ...Palmetto (2003)...Silver Knights Science
Winner... Yale
Williams, Ryan ...Miami Springs valedictorian (2004);
Winner of National High School Calculus Student Award...Stanford
Witham, Charles ...North Miami Beach(1986)...Yale; PHD Materials
Science, CalTech (2000); Jet Propulsion Lab; died bicycle accident Aug
2002; http://www.matsci.caltech.edu/people/alumni/alumni_00.html;
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/articles/0802/14/new04.asp
Wong, Wilson ...North Miami Beach(1983)... BS Computer Science
and Engineering, MIT; MBA Cornell Univ; Cornell Johnson School Grant;
Faculty, Computer Information Systems, Bentley College, MA;
wwong@bentley.edu
Zinger, Robin ...North Miami Beach(1988)...Mathematics and
Actuarial Plan, Univ. Cal. Los Angeles