Hello! My name is Momin and I am currently a final year Mathematics + Computer Science undergraduate at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Within Computer Science, I am mostly interested in Theoretical Computer Science (No, not formal languages). Within Mathematics, I like pure maths - discrete math is particularly most fun for me.

Besides these two, teaching also excites me. I have been involved with teaching Maths and CS for quite some time now. I really enjoy it and I think it’s quite fulfilling.

Check out my Experiences, and Awards below!

Experiences

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Teaching

I will only list a few important experiences (since the list is too long).

• I am currently working in AOPs as a grader. AOPs has online courses for olympiad preperation - I grade students’ submissions for many areas of Mathematics and CS.

• I am currently a UGTA for Comp3721 (Complexity Theory), where my responsiblities include delivering tutorials, making exams and grading.

• I was a UGTA for Comp2611 (Computer Organization) and I held weekly QnA sessions and answered querries online.

• I worked from 2021-2022 as a Mathematics Teaching Assistant (TA) at Nixor College. I held after class sesions from students having queries and held extra classes for exam preperation.

• I worked on “AltX” as a founding member and Senior Math instructor. AltX was a free online education platform for Alevel/Olevel courses with nearly 1000 students enrolled. I was respondible for making courses (including lectures and quizzes) for Alevel Mathematics and Olevel Additional Mathematics. Additionally, I was also responsible for managing two other Math instructors by assinging weekly duties. However, the website is no longer online due to lack of instructors although the lectures are still available on youtube.

• “Grasp” was an online olympiad platform that I started along with a friend. The purpose was similar to AOPs, to post solutions to olympiad problems. The difference was that we wanted there to be a hint system, so that you may still have another shot at the problem, and also a tag system, so you could focus on a specific area. We also wanted to cover some olympaids that are not mainstream (hence not available at aops). We worked on this project for about 4 months, however this project no longer exists as we did not see much success.

Youtube

I make videos about some nice things I want to share - solutions from Math Olympiads mostly. I try to make these videos fun with a touch of GenZ humor (although I really do not do a good job, I think).

I like making these videos and I must say I have learnt a lot. I have witnessed my skills improving a lot - I would initially record over and over again for even simple videos, now I usually get done in one take. The frequency of uploading has taken a hit since I do not usually find the time to make videos during packed semesters.

Coding

I was working as a AI Engineering Intern at MindPlus AI Limited over the winter of 2024-2025. Here I worked a lot with computer vision using python and particularly gained hands on experience in important python libraries such as PyTorch. To put it briefly, my job was the take OCT eye scans and compile them using different projection methods to obtain a decent B scan. After that, I developed AI models (UNets) for blood vessel segmentation. Lastly, I studied the effeciency of the model, tunning it and adding extra features for increasing frequency. Overall, it was a great experience and I got to learn many valuable things.

Similarly, as an intern with Prof. Chen Qifeng, I worked to modify his architecture to test out different models.

Refer to “Projects” section to learn more about them. You can also check some of them out on github.

Awards

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1. Scholarships

   • S.S. Chern Class Award

   • HKUST Full Tuition Scholarship (Merit-Based)

   • Nixor College Full Tuition Scholarship (Merit-Based)

2. Academic Awards

   • HKUST Dean’s List (Fall 2023, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026)

   • Nixor College 2021 - 2022 Dean’s List with Academic Distinction

   • Alevels - 4A* (Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry)

   • Olevels - 9A* 1A (Science subjects)

3. Competition Awards

   • Firebird CTF 2024 - 4th Place (Hackathon)

   • IBIC 2022 - 3rd Place in Pakistan (Informatics)

   • South East Asian Math Olympiad (SEAMO) 2021 - 9th Place in Pakistan (Math Olympiad)

   • Ziauddin Univesrity Debating Competition 2019 - Most promising Team (Debating)

4. Some Courses I have taken

   • Comp4981H - Final Year Thesis (Taking)

   • Comp6613F - Quantum Information Processing (Taking)

   • UTOP3201 - Practicum in STEAM Education (Taking)

   • Comp4971B - Independent Reading (Computaional Learning Theory) (Taking)

   • COMP5713 - Computational Geometry (Taking)

   • COMP3511 - Operating Systems

   • MATH3131 - Honors Linear and Abstract Algebra II

   • COMP4971H - Independent Reading (Distributed and Parallel Algorithms)

   • COMP5711 - Introduction to Advanced Algorithmic Techniques

   • MATH5011 - Advanced Real Analysis I (Audit)

   • COMP4971D - Independent Reading (Approximation Algorithms)

   • MATH4141 - Number Theory

   • MATH3343 - Combinatorial Analysis

   • COMP3721 - Theory of Computation

   • MATH3312 - Numertical Analysis

   • COMP5712 - Combinatorial Optimization

   • COMP5214 - Advanced Deep Learning Architectures

   • COMP4121 - Modern Compiler Design

   • MATH3043 - Honors Real Analysis

   • COMP3711H - Honors Design and Analysis of Algorithms

   • MATH2043 - Honors Mathematical Analysis

   • COMP2012H - Honors OOP and Data Structures

   • COMP3311 - Database Management Systems

   • MATH2511 - Foundations of Acturial Math

   • MATH2131 - Honors Linear and Abstract Algebra I

   • MATH2431 - Honors Probability

   • COMP2711H - Honors Discrete Mathematics

   • MATH1024 - Honors Calculus II

   • MATH2023 - Multivariable Calculus