Gili Rusak
National Awards:
12/2014 2014 National NCWIT Winner
7/2014 Davidson Fellows Honorable Mention Award
6/2014 House App Congressional Award for the Codester App
6/2014 National Student of the Week- CODE.org
5/2014 4th Place Intel ISEF Grand Award and Special Awards
5/2014 Congressional Gold Medal Award
3/2014 2nd Place Undergraduate Student Research Competition
at SIGCSE Conference
1/2014 2013 National NCWIT Runner Up Winner
1/2014 2013 NCWIT Upstate New York State Winner
5/2013 National Institute on Drug Abuse Special Award
Computer Science Competitions:
4/2014 2nd Place - 2014 Siena High School Programming Contest
2/2014 1st Place - 2014 Siena College Undergraduate
Programming Contest
10/2013 4th Place - 2013 Eastern Preliminary of ACM
Northeast Undergraduate Programming Contest
3/2013 3rd Place - 2013 Siena College Undergraduate
Programming Contest
2013 United States of America Computing Olympiad (USACO)
Participant
10/2012 6th Place - 2012 Eastern Preliminary of ACM Northeast
Undergraduate Programming Contest
4/2012 2012 Siena College’s 25th Annual High School
Programming Contest
Math Honors and Awards:
3/2013 2nd Place Siena College Undergraduate Integration
Bee
2012-2013 Honorable Mention in USA Mathematical Talent Search
2013 Perfect Score USA Mathematical Talent Search
(USAMTS) Round Year 24 Round 1
2012 Published solutions and proposed problems: Crux
Mathematical Mayhem Journal for and by
High School and University Students
2011-2012 Ranked at the top 20% of the participants - Math Prize for
Girls Competition
6/2011 Top in Country Award from International Mathematics
and Verbal Talent Search - Johns Hopkins University,
Center of Talented Youth for Excellence in Mathematics
6/2011 High Honors Award - Johns Hopkins University, Center
of Talented Youth
3/2011 1st place Female Mathematician in New York State -
MATHCOUNTS Competition
3/2011 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute College Scholarship -
MATHCOUNTS Competition
1/2011 2nd place - MATHCOUNTS Chapter Competition,
Niskayuna, New York
2010 Ranked at the top 5% of the participants in 9th grade
and below - Math Prize for Girls Competition
2010-2011 Certificate of distinction for Superior Performance on the
AMC Competitions
2009-2011 Young Student Honors in AMC 10 and AMC 12
Competitions
2009-present American Invitational Math Examination (AIME) qualifier
2011-present Math Meets - Regional Upstate New York Math Contest
2011-present National Level Mandelbrot Competition
2011-present Math Prize for Girls Competition
2010-present American Invitational Math Examination (AIME)
2010-present Princeton University Math Competition (PUMaC)
2010-present Harvard MIT Math Tournament (HMMT)
2010-present American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) Upstate
New York - All Star Team
2010-present USA Mathematical Talent Search (USAMTS)
2009-present New York State Math League (NYSML)
2009-2011 MATHCOUNTS Competition
2008-present American Math Competition (AMC) 8, 10, 12
Mountain Biking Racing Honors and Awards:
2011-present 2-time 1st place in the New England Regional Series,
Root 66 Mountain Bike Series for Cat 3 Women 12-18
2011-present 3-time NYSBRA Young Biking Scholarship recipient
2009-present 5-time New York State Mountain Biking Champion and
1st Place in the New York State Mountain Bike Series for
Cat 3 Women 12-18
2009-present Sponsored Cyclist - Overlook Mountain Bikes,
Woodstock, NY
Russian Honors and Awards:
6/2014 Joseph and Elaine Quinn Junior Award in Russian Language
4/2014 Best Speaker in New York State Olympiada of Spoken
Russian
2012-present 3-Time Gold Medal in ACTR National Russian Essay
Contest - A national Russian essay contest
2011-present 4-Time 1st Place and Gold Medal - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
ACTR New York State Olympiada of Spoken Russian
Grants:
3/2014 Association of Computing Machinery - Women Travel
Award Grant to the 2014 SIG Computer Science
Education Conference
3/2014 Student Research Competition Travel Award Grant to
the 2014 SIG Computer Science Education Conference
1/2014 National Center for Women & Information Technology
AspireIT Middle School $2,000 Grant: teaching
underrepresented girls computer science
2011-present NYSBRA Young Biking Scholarship
6/2011 Free Summer Course Scholarship at the University
of Albany, New York - Johns Hopkins University, Center for
Talent Youth
2011-present Puzzle Hunt Prizes donated by Wolfram Alpha,
Mathematical Association of America (MAA), and National
Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)
Summer Internships and Programs:
Summer 2014 Stanford Computer Science Research Internship,
Stanford University, CA
Summer 2013 Siena Summer Scholars Program, Siena College, NY
Summer 2013 Williams College Math Camp, Williams College, MA
Summer 2012 Awesome Math Summer Program, Cornell University, NY
Summer 2011 Idea Math Summer Program, San Jose, CA
Membership, Organizations, and Clubs:
2014-present Girls Inc. Member
2013- present Association for Computing Machinery Student Member
2013-present Siena College - Women in Computing Club
2012-present Association of New York State Youth Courts Inc.
2011-present Russian Olympiad Club
2011-2012 Peer Tutoring Club
2009-present USA Cycling
2008-present Albany Area Math Circle
2012-present Davidson Young Scholars - Davidson Institute for Talent
Development
2010-present USA Mathematical Talent Search
2009-present CTY John Hopkins University - Center for Talented Youth