Student Leadership Group

Our student leaders create competitions, write problems, and expand math literacy for students across the Seattle area.

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Meet the Student Leadership Group

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Erin Bian

President

Erin is a junior at Lakeside School. She is a MOP participant, 2026 USAJMO Top Honors awardee, Math Prize Olympiad medalist, and EGOI Finalist. She attended the G2 math program in 2024 and Canada/USA Mathcamp in 2025 and 2026. Erin's favorite subject is combinatorics, and outside of math, she enjoys programming, chess, and ultimate frisbee.

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Christopher Peng

Vice President

Christopher is a senior at Lakeside School. Competitive math has been a big part of his life ever since first grade, when he participated in Math League and Math Kangaroo. He has received USAJMO Honors twice, received 1st place with the SIMC team at HMMT Feb 2026, and placed top 20 at HMIC. Aside from math, he enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee, chess, and board/card games, listening to music, and participating in puzzle hunts.

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Raymond Zhu

Raymond is a senior at Lakeside School. He started competition math in elementary school with the AMC 8 and has since attended MOP in 2025. Outside of math, he loves rowing with Lakeside Crew, hiking, cooking, and has ranked top 50 in Gen 9 Random Battles on Pokemon Showdown.

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Edward Li

Edward is a Senior at Mercer Island High School. He enjoys doing math and his biggest math achievements include qualifying for USAJMO once, winning Mathcounts State, and being a 5-time AIME qualifier. Outside of math, he likes to play chess, watch his favorite football teams, FC Barcelona and the Spain National Team (VAMOS!), and run cross country.

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Hannah Ma

Hannah is a senior at Lakeside School. Since discovering a passion for math in elementary school, she has qualified for the USAJMO and USAMO and attended PROMYS twice. Outside of math, she enjoys golfing, dancing, playing the flute, and watching sunsets with friends.

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Kevin Yang

Kevin is a senior at Skyline High School. He received a silver medal on the 2025 USAMO, attended MOP 2025, is a 2x IMO TST group qualifier, and was on the winning HMMT team in 2026 (WA Gold 1). His favorite subject in math is barycentric coordinates. In his free time, he likes to read books, play card games, and listen to music.

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Leo Elieson

Leo is a senior at Lakeside School. He attended HCSSiM last summer. He teaches math online at LIVE with Po-Shen Loh and locally at Prime Factor Math Circle. He plays and coaches frisbee. He likes folding modular origami, which is surprisingly mathematical. He is a public transit fan.

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Eric Shao

Eric is a junior at Mercer Island High School. He has qualified for Mathcounts Nationals, gotten an honorable mention on USAJMO 2025, a silver medal on USAMO 2026, and 2x USAMTS Gold. In his free time, he enjoys playing tennis, piano, and various trading card/deck building games.

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Anthony Cao

Anthony is a sophomore who loves exploring mathematics, solving challenging problems, and sharing that excitement with others. His journey with math competitions began at the age of seven, and since then, he has participated in competitions such as MATHCOUNTS, AMC, BAMO, SMO, and HMMT, and has qualified for the AIME three times. He has had the opportunity to lead an after-school math club at a middle school, teach a summer course in number theory, and work with students through math clubs and tutoring. Anthony is excited to help build the SIMC community into a place where students can challenge themselves, discover new ideas, and, most importantly, have fun with mathematics. Outside of math, he enjoys solving Rubik’s Cubes, playing strategy board games, photography, and hiking.

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Brendon Wang

Webmaster

Brendon is a sophomore at Lakeside School. He started doing competitive mathematics in elementary school. Since then, he has competed in numerous math contests, including HMMT, SMT, BAMO, and ARML. Brendon is a three time AIME qualifier and placed fourth at BAMO in 2026. He also does competitive programming and qualified for USACO Platinum in 2026. Outside of math and programming, Brendon enjoys playing tennis, ultimate frisbee, and saxophone.

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Eason Deng

Eason is a sophomore at Lakeside School. He has qualified for AIME 4 times, and gotten JMO Honors once. His favorite math topic is Geometry, and his least favorite is Combinatorics. Outside of math, he enjoys tennis and violin, as well as spending quality time with family and friends.

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Saamik Agrawal

Saamik is a sophomore at Eastlake High School. He enjoys math competitions, competing in the AMCs, AIME, MATHCOUNTS, ARML, USAMTS, and USAJMO. Outside of math, he enjoys coding, physics, and NSB.

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Shuyin Liu

Shuyin is a sophomore at Newport High School. She has tied for 6th place at Math Prize for Girls, won a silver medal on the Math Prize for Girls Olympiad, and qualified for USAJMO. Outside of math, she enjoys playing badminton, crocheting, and spending time with her cats.

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Vivaan Mukherjee

Vivaan is a sophomore at Interlake High School. He began his journey in competitive math in 5th grade, when he first won Math is Cool and took the AMC 8. Since then, he won MATHCOUNTS state and represented Washington at nationals, qualified for AIME 3 times, and placed 7th in Discrete in Stanford Math Tournament. His favorite math subject is combinatorics. When he is not doing math, he can be found playing video games, going for hikes, or singing and acting.

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Anish Agrawal

Anish is a freshman at the University of Washington. He got into competition math in middle school and has since scored 141 on the AMC 10 and 12 on the AIME, qualifying for the USAJMO. He has led software for three FTC and VEX robotics teams, building the autonomous systems behind multiple Control Awards and State Championships, and competing at the World Championship and other international competitions. Outside of math, Anish enjoys tennis, badminton, and chess, and plays piano and violin.

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Patrick Yee

Patrick is a freshman at Kamiak High School, and his second year as SLG. He attended MathPath 2026 and got DHR on AMC 8. Outside of math, he enjoys swimming, tennis, and hanging out with friends.

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Shuwen Yang

Shuwen is a freshman at Lakeside School. She began training in math in 2nd grade and participated in her first competition in 4th grade. She has since participated in Math Is Cool, the AMCs, MATHCOUNTS, SMT, and other local competitions. When she's not doing math, she enjoys coding, dancing (ask her to talk about Kpop and you're going to be there for an hour), and talking endlessly with her sisters and friends (she makes really good jokes). Warning: don't mention the World Cup to her.

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Yiyang Li

Yiyang is a freshman at Lakeside School. His first math competition experience was in 4th grade when he attended Math is Cool and helped his team win first place both that year and the next. He is a two time AIME qualifier and has also attended MathCounts, ARML, BMT online, SMT online, and many other local competitions. Outside of math, he is obsessed with coding and loves rowing.