Our Teachers
♥ Proud to be Bay Coding Club teachers ♥
Alex Wei
Computer Science Major at MIT
Competitive Programming Skills/Background:
Platinum Medal in USACO
Five years of competitive programming in C++
Three years of competitive programming in Java
MATH TOP 50 IN AMC FINALS ACSL Gold Medal Teacher at BCC USACO Private Teacher
Nathan Gorsiki
Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Minnesota,
National Merit Scholar
Good at teaching: Pygame 2D game design, Python
ACSL Gold Medal Teacher at BCC
Bill Wang
Computer Science Major at MIT
USA Mathematics Olympiad Qualifier (2020, 2021)
USA Computing Olympiad Platinum Division (2020)
USA Physics Olympiad Semi-finalist (2020, 2021)
Texas State Science Fair Finalist (2020)
Rachel Lu
MIT Computer Science Major
MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute
President of Girls Who Code Club
Teaching Python and Java at BCC <br>
Teaching ACSL and USACO
Brian Zhu
Computer Science Major at MIT
AP Scholar with Distinction Award
Bartow Cyber Club Most Improved Award
Teacher for Python, C#, and Java
ACSL Gold Medal Teacher at BCC
Elaine Guo
– University of Southern California major in computer science
– Girls Who Code Club president at Interlake High School
– Director of Service for Women in Computing at the University of Southern California
Gabriel Castillo
MIT Computer Science Major
USACO Gold Medalist
Competed in IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics) for the Mexican team in 2020
Silver medal in CIIC 2021 (Iberoamerican Olympiad in Informatics and Computing)
Teacher for C++ and Java
Justin Yang
University of Washington major in Computer Science<br>Teaching language: Java, Python, HTML, CSS, UWP, C++, C#, Nodejs, Git, and JavaScript
– Android App Development, Unity, SolidWorks, Arduino IDE, Git and SQL
– Microsoft Technical Associates (MTA) Certified in Software
Matthew Habtezgi
MIT Computer Science Major
FRC Team 2095(2017-2019), Team 2234(2019-2021)
FIRST Robotics Competition 2019 Worlds Qualifier w/ Team 2095
USACO Gold Contestant
Teacher for USACO, Java, Python, and C++
Larry Jing
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Computer science
Good at teaching: C++, C#, Python, MATLAB, PowerShell and Machine Learning
Experience designing/programming microcontroller-based embedded systems
Shantikiran Chanal
National Honor Society
Learning DRSEF Honorable Mention
Biomedical Engineering Genius Olympiad
Mingpei Li
MIT Bioengineering Major
NHS Tutoring at HSMSE,
Summer STEM Institute at CCNY
Math Teacher at BayCodingClub
Yixing Xu
University of Toronto Applied Math and Computer Science
Game Design intern for a gaming organization
Teacher for Game Design Classes (Unity, Roblox, Scratch) and Python
Joseph Swearngan
Computer Science major in Computer Science at Appalachian State University
proficient in Java, Python, R, Linux, VIM and C++
ACSL Gold Teacher at BCC
Paul Pachikara
Mechatronics Major at Simon Fraser University
FIRST Robotics Worlds Contestant 2019
Teaching AP CS, Robotics, Java
Shiwei Chen
Silicon Valley Start-up Software Engineer
USACO Gold/Silver 759/1000
CSS CCC -Junior : 71/75 -Honor Roll
Java AP Full Score
Good at Teaching Java/C++
USACO Coach
Edmund Liang
– University of California Santa Cruz
BS in Computer Science
Good at teaching : Java, Javascript, C, C#, C++, Python, HTML
AP Computer Science Tutor
Pygame 2D game design Instructor
Brian J. Chen
University of Southern California School of Architecture
Teacher for TinkerCAD, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
Paul Richards
University of Iowa major in computer science
Software Engineer at a big company
Good at teaching: Pygame 2D game design, Minecraft coding, Robotics coding
Julia Busby
Vassar College NY in Computer Science;
Minors in Math, Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy
Co-Captain at Women’s Rugby Team
ACSL Teacher at BCC
Nicholas Deloney
Computer Science major in Computer Science at University of California,< proficient in Java, Python, C++,APP teaching,
Gold Medal Teacher at BCC
Joseph Issa
Adjunct Associate Professor (Computer Engineering) At University of Arizona Global Campus Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering Santa Clara University
Senior Software Engineer Intel Corporation
Good at teaching JAVA
Laurent Man
University of Massachusetts
Good at teaching HTML/CSS/JavaScript
AP Computer Science
Website design Teacher at BCC
Ricky Dong
Minecraft International Coach Certification from Microsoft
Good at teaching Minecraft Coding
Coach of the Minecraft Club at BCC
Anmol Gill
San José State University B.S., Applied Mathematics, Concentration in Applied and Computational MathScience
Good at Java, LaTeX, Python, x86 Assembly, Microsoft Visual Studio C++, SQLand Python
Manvina, L
Mechatronics Major at Simon Fraser University
FIRST Robotics Worlds Contestant 2019
Teaching AP CS, Robotics, Java
Dashaun Hightower
Bachelors of Arts Lasell College Newton, MA
Youmedia Mentor
Creative Designer in Fashion
Teacher at XR coding, Roblox Coding, NFT design
Mireya Leon
University of California, Santa Cruz M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction B.S in Computer Science – Good at teaching: Math/ Python/HTML/CSS/JavaScript
Matthew Zou
Computer Science major at University of Puget Sound,
APCS Full score , SAT 1570
BCC Teacher : Java, Python, C and C++
Tony Bai
Computer Science major at University of DeAnza,
APCS Full score ,
BCC Teacher : Java, Python and C++
Aidan Cullen
Computer Science major at University Toronto
Game Designer
BCC Teacher : Roblox, Python, Java.
Nishank Gite
University of California Berkeley
Computer Science and Physics
Good at Teaching: C++, Python, AI and Machine Learning
Pranave Kopparthy
The University of Texas at Austin
Computer Science Major
Good at Teaching: C++, Python, Java,
AI and Machine Learning
Abdel Issa
Master in Computer Science Major
Software Engineer
Good at Teaching: C++, Python, Java,
AI and Machine Learning
ACSL Coach, USACO Coach
Varun Saraf
Computer Science Major at UC Riverside
Good at Teaching: C++, Python, Java, Swift,
AI and Machine Learning
ACSL Coach, USACO Coach
Brandon Wong
Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Good at Teaching: C++, Python, Java, Swift,
AI and Machine Learning
ACSL Coach
Good at :Data Structures, Efficient Algorithms, Data Science, Linux Systems Administration, Linear Algebra, Computer Architecture
Ritika Joshi
Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Good at Teaching: C++, Python, Java, Swift,
AI and Machine Learning
ACSL Coach, USACO Coach
Johnny Qiu
Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Good at Teaching: C++, Python, Java, Swift,
AI and Machine Learning
ACSL Coach, USACO Coach