Bio

Matias Shundi is a rising senior at Chapel Hill High School in North Carolina. As a highly advanced and hard-working student in math, physics, and computer science, Matias has been dual-enrolled and is taking many classes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, having currently worked his way up to graduate-level courses. He is the president of his school's math club, and participates in many math competitions, where he has consistently been a top performer at the state and national level. His hobbies include playing chess—where he is a one-time state champion—and scrabble—where he has finished in 2nd place twice and 3rd place once in the North American School Scrabble Championship. He enjoys playing sports, with his favorites being basketball and tennis. He is very passionate about computer science and math, and hopes to continue exploring these fields.

Project: Phylogenetic Graphs of Programming Languages Using Machine Learning