CURRICULUM VITAE

Tomek Czajka

Education

• 2004 - now: Purdue University, Computer Science
• 2000 - 2004: Warsaw University, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, Bachelor of Science
• 1996 - 2000: High School No 1 in Stalowa Wola, Poland, graduated in 2000 receiving the KEN Award for best graduates
• 1998 - 1999: Warwick School, England ("Wyzwania" Foundation and Headmasters' Conference HMC exchange program, full scholarship)

Awards, Honors and Scholarships

• Academic level
  • June 2006: Google Code Jam Europe, Dublin, Ireland - WINNER
  • January 2006: CodeCup 2006 - WINNER
  • March 2005: TopCoder Collegiate Challenge 2005, Santa Clara, CA, USA - second place
  • November 2004: TopCoder Open 2004, Santa Clara, CA, USA - WINNER
  • October 2004: Google Code Jam 2, San Jose, California - fourth place
  • April 2004: TopCoder Collegiate Challenge 2004, Boston, USA - WINNER
  • March 2004: Vojtech Jarnik International Mathematical Competition - 6th place
  • December 2003: TopCoder Open 2003, Uncasville, Connecticut - WINNER
  • November 2003: Google Code Jam, San Jose, California - fourth place
  • April 2003: Vojtech Jarnik International Mathematical Competition - 8th place
  • March 2003: ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest sponsored by IBM, Beverly Hills, California - WORLD CHAMPION
  • November 2002: ACM Central European Collegiate Programming Contest, Warsaw - WINNER - qualified for the finals in Beverly Hills in March 2003
  • October 2002: Polish Academic Collegiate Programming Contest, Wroclaw - second place
  • April 2002: Vojtech Jarnik International Mathematical Competition - 6th place
  • November 2001: ACM Central European Collegiate Programming Contest, Warsaw - second place
  • October 2001: Polish Academic Collegiate Programming Contest, Wroclaw - second place
  • April 2001: Vojtech Jarnik International Mathematical Competition - 3rd place
  • March 2001: ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest sponsored by IBM, Vancouver, Canada - silver medal
  • March 2001: VisualAge for Java Challenge organized by IBM, Vancouver, Canada - WINNER
  • November 2000: ACM Central European Collegiate Programming Contest, Prague - WINNER
  • October 2000: Polish Academic Collegiate Programming Contest, Warsaw - WINNER
• High School, international level
  • 2000: 12th International Olympiad in Informatics, Beijing, China - gold medal
  • 2000: 41st International Mathematics Olympiad, Korea - silver medal
  • 2000: 7th Central European Olympiad in Informatics, Cluj, Romania - gold medal
  • 2000: USA Computing Olympiad Open Championships - WINNER
  • 2000: USA Computing Olympiad Spring Championship - WINNER
  • 1999: 11th International Olympiad in Informatics, Antalya, Turkey - gold medal
  • 1998: 10th International Olympiad in Informatics, Troia, Portugal - silver medal
  • 1998: 5th Central European Olympiad in Informatics, Zadar-Petrcane, Croatia - gold medal
  • 1998: 39th International Mathematics Olympiad, Taipei, Taiwan - silver medal
  • 1997: 38th International Mathematics Olympiad, Mar del Plata, Argentina - honorable mention
• High School, national level
  • 2000: 7th Polish Olympiad in Informatics - WINNER
  • 2000: 51st Polish Mathematics Olympiad - gold medal
  • 1999: British Informatics Olympiad - made the team for IOI (top 4)
  • 1999: British Mathematical Olympiad - the only 100% score at Round 1, not allowed to Round 2 for citizenship reasons
  • 1998: 5th Polish Olympiad in Informatics - gold medal
  • 1998: 49th Polish Mathematics Olympiad - silver medal
  • 1998: Polish Championships in Mathematical and Logical Games - WINNER
  • 1997: 48th Polish Mathematics Olympiad - silver medal
• Scholarships
  • 2004-now: Ross Fellowship at Purdue University
  • 1997-2001: Scholarship of the Minister of Education for exceptional achievements in the field of science
  • 1998: "Wyzwania" Foundation and Headmasters' Conference HMC scholarship to Warwick School, England
  • 1993-1999: Scholarship of the Polish Children's Fund

Work Experience

• 2000 - present: Member of the Jury of the Polish Olympiad in Informatics, working on problem statements, key solutions, test data and software
• 2000 - present: USACO Assistant Coach
• 2005: Summer internship at Google
• 2004: Teaching Assistant at Purdue University (Data Structures)
• 2003 - 2004: Teaching assistant at Warsaw University (Algorithms and Data Structures)
• 2003 - 2004: Olympic programming course for high school students
• 2000 - 2004: Cooperative of the Polish Children's Fund, helping organize science camps for High School students
• 2003: Summer internship at Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA. Worked in the CLR Performance Team.
• 2002: A single project on WWW insurance applications in QBS
• 2001: Summer internship at IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA. Worked on Natural Language Processing.

Programming Experience and Coursework

• Coursework: Calculus; Discrete Mathematics; Linear Algebra with Geometry; Introduction to Programming; Introduction to Set Theory; Discrete Mathematics; Programming Methods; Logic; Topology; Databases; Algorithms and Data Structures; Object Oriented Programming; Computer architecture and low-level programming; Software Engineering; Concurrent Programming; Differential Equations; Programs Semantics and Verification; Languages, Automatons and Computations; Team Programming Project; Operating Systems; Computational Mathematics; Algorithmics in practice; Probability; Compilers; Algebra; Computer Networks; Algorithmics;
• Programming languages: C++, Java, C, C#, Pascal, Ocaml, SML, Haskell, Prolog
• Other technologies: HTML, PHP, JSP, JDBC
• Operating systems: Linux, Unix, Windows