MARCO SELVATICI

After the first year of university, I got an internship at Google Zurich!
I will work with the Google Assistant team, so excited!

While doing the Facebook Hack-a-Project I learned quite a lot about Webassmebly.
That technology allows you to run any languange (not only JavaScript!) on the browser with near native performance! This means that you can write desktop-like applications and simply run them on the browser (even 3D games will have no problem).
But since we are on the browser, your app will have two huge advantages:

• It will be absolutely cross platform.
• It will require no installation or setup.

Together with some other Computer Science students, I am developing a system for competitive programming contests in LAN.
You can see how it is going from the github page.

Facebook Hack-a-project is a sort of extended hackathon were some university students are tutored by Facebook software engineers and have to develop a project.
I am currently working on a web app that uses Webassmebly to compress files quickly and with no need to upload them to a server. Try it!

With a group of Imperial College engineering students we are trying to build a small fusion reactor!
The aim is not to produce usable energy, but just to trigger the fusion of hydrogenus atoms to get elium.
Between October and December 2017 we designed the voltage source (that has to provide around 220kV of voltage difference) and in January we started to build a prototype thanks to a scholarship we won.

After having coded for a while in C++ and Python, in 2017, I started to learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
The simple snake game you see in the gif was my first project (see code or play) and then I created this web page about me.
Have a look also at my fractal tree generator (code) and at my clocks.

In 2017 I started to create telegram bots in Python using the Telegram Bot API.
Bots are automatic users that can help you in several operations, making your life easier.
The most interesting one I created is the @ms_notification_bot (code): it sends you a message if you have new Instagram or Facebook notifications (very useful if you use web versions of the apps and therefore you should everytime manually check for new notifications by opening the broswer).
Other bots I built, instead, keep me updated about the currency (EUR-GBP) exchange or notify me when someone gives me a feedback about my websites.

Thanks to my silver medal at Individual Informatics Olympiads I had the opportunity to attend two full-immersion Informatics courses with the other top 20 Olympiads contestants in preparation and selection for the International Informatics Olympiads
Every course lasted 5 days and they were in October and November 2016.

Because of my good results at Informatics Olympiads I volounteered as a tutor for students in my school that were interested in that kind of competition.
Together with a friend of mine (a volounteer too) we involved more than 50 students from 14 to 18 and started to teach them both the basics of programming and more advanced algorithms.
In that way, one of our teams managed to win 3 over 5 contests at national level and 5 students reached the final round at Individual Informatics Olympiads (to which are admitted around 100 contestants over the initial 20'000+).

OII Olympiads are national competitions both individual or in teams.
In the years 2015 and 2016 I competed in both of them achieving remarkable results:
• 6th position at national level at Informatics Olympiads for Teams(over 300+ initial teams);
• silver medal (13th overall position at national level) at Individual Informatics Olympiads (over 20'000+ initial contestants).
In these competitions you have to create your own algorithms in order to solve the task proposed with both time and memory limitations.
The language used was C++.

In summer 2016 I got an internship at SpecialVideo, a company that deals with industrial vision systems.
I worked for them on the feasibility study of an important application for the pharmaceutical industry.
I had to develop a C++ code that used three Computer Vision libraries in order to test the performances of different OCR (Optical Charachter Recognition) algorithms.
Tests gave positive responses and in summer 2017 the complete system started working.

Natural Science Olympiads are competitions in natural science and biology.
In 2014 I placed myself 12th at national level.
I also took part at several other competitions, performing quite well in physics (bronze medal at regional level) and chemistry.