Mikhail Mirzayanov

Mikhail graduated from Saratov State University in 2004. During his study at the university, Mikhail took part in programming contests: he won two silver medals at the ACM-ICPC World Finals and many times advanced to the finals of prestigious world programming contests. As a coach of Saratov State University ACM-ICPC, his teams won ACM-ICPC World Cup in 2006, All-Russia Cup in 2008, gold and silver medals at ACM-ICPC World Finals. His high-school students won medals at IOI. He teached Algorithms and Data Structures at Saratov State University for 5 years. He was the head of the Programming Competitions Training Center at Saratov State University. He was chairman and jury member of many programming competitions. In 2010 Mikhail founded the website Codeforces, now it is the world’s largest competitive programming community.