I am a recent graduate from Simon Fraser University with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.

My passion lies in Rendering/Mathematics and I am looking into a career in the field of Computer Graphics.

Recent interests (last edit: Jan 12, 2024)

I am spending my time learning rendering techniques before starting on job search.

In the meantime I am building my own raytracer in C++. See repo: https://github.com/havocado/raytracer-by-hailey

I am also writing up some 'what I learned' kind of posts:

• [PBRT] Understanding the Differential Equation for Absorption Cross Section in Volume Scattering
• (Still writing!) https://github.com/havocado/notes/blob/2310/ray-triangle-intersection/231018-triangle-collision-raytracing.md

January 2024: I wrote up some problems for MASH 2024 programming contest. See repo: https://github.com/ablondal/MASH_2024

🖥️ Work Experience

• Sep 2022 ~ Dec 2022: USRA Undergraduate Research - See Projects and Repositories below!

• May 2021 ~ Dec 2021: Co-op Web Developer

🏆 I am proud of:

• Achieving 13th place on ICPC Pacific Northwest Regionals 2021: This makes my team 4th in Vancouver and I am proud of it! ACM-ICPC is the biggest algorithm competition for college students in the world. Also mentioned on SFU website - https://www.sfu.ca/computing/newsandevents/2022/sfu-computing-science-students-win-multiple-awards-at-2021-icpc-.html

• Top 500 for Putnam Mathematical Competition 2022: This was the highest score for SFU in 5 years and I got a free A+ for a course in SFU for achieving this! Putnam is competition for undergraduates in mathematics. See website - https://www.sfu.ca/math/undergraduate/current/research-awards-and-competitions/putnam-competition.html

• Winning 1st place (tie) in Clash of Equations (UBC vs. SFU vs. TRU Math Contest) 2023: See website - https://www.sfu.ca/math/events-news/news/2023-news/ClashofEquations2023.html

• Other: MASH Programming Contest 2023 (3rd place), A Strange Programming Contest 2022 (3rd place), MSU-UMS (SFU vs. UBC) Math Contest 2022 (3rd place)

✨ Projects and repositories

• (2023~2024) Raytracer by Hailey - raytracer-by-hailey

• (2024) New Year's MASH Programming Contest - MASH_2024

  • Wrote problems: N3W Y34R5 M45H PR0GR4MM1NG C0N7357, Accelerated Aging, Slightly Less Special Primes, Cake Cutting
  • Available in SFU cs-coder, uploading to Codeforces Polygon in progress

• (2023) Rendering related stuff:

  • [PBRT] Understanding the Differential Equation for Absorption Cross Section in Volume Scattering

• (2022) My research effort that didn't quite work out - 3d-reconstruction

• (2022) My research effort that taught me a lot and worked in some degree - semantic_mapping

• (2020) An algorithm problem I wrote - https://vjudge.net/contest/578547#problem/A

• (2020) A collection of C++ code for coding problems - https://havocado.github.io/cpp-2020-april

🏘️ Groups I love

• SFU Mathematics Students Union - Student union for Math nerds students! A lot of happy memories while working as an exec for MSU during most of my studies in 2019-2023. Website: https://sfumsu.github.io/

• SFU Competitive Programming Club - I would say this is one of the best clubs for programmers at SFU! I participated as a problem setter around 2020 when I did a lot of algorithm programming. It is an amazing club that runs weekly practices and introduces students to ICPC/leetcode style programming problems.

• SFU Artists Club - A lovely club that gathers every week to make art and draw weird things on whiteboard

💬 Other links:

• Email: [email protected]
• Linkedin