Biography

I grew up in a village not far from the capital of Armenia, Yerevan. At the age of ten, my parents transferred me to one of the best schools in the country - Quantum, where I was given many opportunities to go beyond the normal classwork. I developed great interest in computer science and mathematics, and participated in numerous science competitions. The highly motivating environment in school helped me to eventually start an undergraduate degree at MIT. I immediately chose to study my favourite subject: computer science. Besides my own studies, I have always been interested in teaching myself. At MIT through the Global Teaching Labs program, I taught a month-long computer science course in a high school in Italy. Two years after that we were able to bring the program to my home country, Armenia, where I also taught. In the last two years at MIT, I was involved in research in computational connectomics, a branch of neuroscience that aim to understand the low level structure of the brain and how it "computes." I am excited to undertake doctoral studies in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, explore what are the limits of randomised distributed computation models, and how we can use distributed computing to model natural processes.

Previous Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Links

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