Marek Kubale

Prof. Marek Kubale (Gdańsk University of Technology) has published many papers, mostly in graph coloring and discrete optimization. In his work with students he attracts and promotes numerous young researchers. So far, Prof. Kubale has supervised 17 PhD theses, and members of his algorithms group have received significant awards:

• FNP grants for best young researchers in Poland (7 grants),
• PTI awards for the best Master's Theses in computer science (including the 1st prize, 4 times),
• Prime Minister's awards for PhD theses (2 awards),
• Witold Lipski awards (2 awards),
• other grants, awards, prizes for students, PhD students and young researchers.

Motto for HSPL participants: In any special doctrine of nature there can be only as much proper science as there is mathematics therein. (Immanuel Kant).

Leszek Gąsieniec

Prof. Leszek Gąsieniec (University of Liverpool) is the Head of the Complexity Theory and Algorithmics Group at the University of Liverpool, Department of Computer Science. His research interests mostly focus on the design and analysis of algorithmic problems with emphasis on text processing algorithms and data structures, as well as distributed computing, especially in aspects such as radio communication and coordination of mobile agents.

Prof. Gąsieniec is an Editor of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms and a program committee member of several leading conferences in the theory of computer science, algorithms, and distributed computing. In 2010, Prof. Gąsienec will chair the organising committee of ALGO 2010, which is the most important algorithmic venue in Europe, combining the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) and a number of specialized conferences and workshops.

Prof. Gąsieniec cooperates with several researchers from distinguished institutions around the world: academic centers Paderborn (Germany), Bordeaux (France), Lund (Sweden), the Weizmann Institute and Technion (Izrael), universities in Ottawa and Vancouver (Canada) and University of California, Riverside (USA), to name but a few.

Richard Kralovic

Richard Kralovic (ETH Zürich) is a Research Assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Unit: Chair of Information Technology and Education, Group: Information Technology and Education), which is widely regarded as the best University of Technology in Europe. His work is mostly devoted to complexity problems and algorithms in areas such as: finite automata, broadcasting, and online algorithms. Moreover, he is one of the Organizers of the Swiss Olympiad in Informatics. Earlier, he took part in many programming competitions, and as a student of Comenius University he took the gold medal (4th place) in the ACM ICPC World Finals 2002/03, Hollywood (in a team with Michal Forisek and Jan Oravec).

Filip Wolski

Filip Wolski, as a student of University of Warsaw, won 1st place in the ACM ICPC World Finals 2007 in Tokyo (in a team with Marek Cygan and Marcin Pilipczuk). Earlier, as a student of III Liceum Ogólnokształcące in Gdynia, he took 1st place in the 18th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in Mexico. He is a vice-president of the Talent Association.

Sergei Rogulenko

Sergei Rogulenko, as a student of Physico-Technical Lyceum #1 in Saratov (Russia), won 1st place in the first edition of High School Programming League last year. Among his numerous achievements, it is worth mentioning his two medals (gold and silver) at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI).

Sergei's message for HSPL participants: the High School Programming League is an outstanding event. You have to solve different challenging problems during the whole contest. And it's a really difficult task - the competition is very long and some competitors just give up. Thus, if you want to take a high place in the contest, you have to work hard, but hard work will be greatly awarded. So, good luck, and do your best!