Samir Khuller and Dave Mount advise Intel STS semi-finalists

Professor and Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science Samir Khuller and Professor Dave Mount advised two students from Montgomery Blair High school's magnet program who have been named as Intel Student Talent Search 2015 Semi-Finalists.  Khuller advised Matthew Das Sarma on his project "Absorptive Matchings and the Minimum Vertex Cover with Hard Capacities Problem," and Mount advised Sachin Pandey on his project "Optimizing Nearest Neighbor Search Methods Using Volume Overlap." Each year, several Computer Science faculty members give of their time to advise talented high school students in Maryland on their senior projects in all areas of research in Computer Science.

Intel awarded Das Sarma and Pandey $1000 each, and donated matching funds to the school.  The Blair Magnet program boasts twelve Intel Semi-Finalists out of 300 for 2015, the most of any high school in the country.  The finalists, who will be competing for three prizes of $150,000, will be announced on January 21st 2015.

Read the Intel STS press release.