YanTong (Maxwill) Lin

About Me¶

I am a 1st year MSCS student at Georgia Tech broadly interested in
- cryptography (SNARKs, secret sharing), blockchains (consensus algorithms, smart contracts)
- machine learning
- competitive programming
some facts
- I ranked 541st (top 0.56%) in Google Code Jam 2020
- I scored multiple A+s in hardcore courses in Theoretical CS/Math (e.g. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Quantum Machine Learning, Advanced Algorithms, Intractable Problems, Advanced Linear Algebra, Algebra)
- I won ~9k at ETH Global Paris, a global hackathon with 1400 attendees and 321 projects.
Here is my 1-page CV and CV with projects and leadership
- Writing samples are in the theory project section or this tab
- Engineering projects are in the engineering project section or this tab
Please see my CV for my professional information mainly since this site is static and can be outdated (last modified: Sep 8th 2023).

Courses that I am taking in 2023 fall at Georgia Tech:
CS 6035 Introduction to Information Security
CS 6515 Introduction to Graduate Algorithms
CSE 8803 DLT Deep Learning for Text
CSE 6243 Advanced Topics in Machine Learning
I find return oriented programming something particularly interesting and enjoy teaching my peers

Listening music, playing games
Researching healthy diet
Exercising (weight training and Zone 2 running)
Playings guitar, piano
- Me playing Fight, an acoustic guitar song
Traveling
- I was hosted by Antalpha Hacker House as a hacker during ETH CC in Paris

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Last update: 2023-09-15