EXECUTIVE
Founder • Puzzle Team
Joy Shi
Joy is the founder and president of INTEGIRLS Inc. She first began competitive math in middle school, but she's been passionate about STEM for as long as she can remember. Her experience at Math Prize for Girls -- the premier all-girls math competition -- inspired her to create a similar community of girls, but open to all. She is a senior at California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Director • Boston/Concord Chapter
Harini Venkatesh
Harini is a senior from Brentwood, NH. She first fell in love with problem-solving through a program at her elementary school and became an avid competitor in math contests, including MATHCOUNTS and AMC, where she has qualified for the USAJMO, Math Prize for Girls, AIME, and has received the MAA Young Women in Mathematics Prize. After participating in an INTEGIRLS competition in 2020, she joined the community as a problem writer and has since worked to promote its mission to inspire math-loving female and nonbinary students. When she's not doing math, Harini enjoys listening to music, browsing fanfiction, and watching Chicago Med.
CFO • San Diego Chapter
Katrina Liu
Katrina is a student from San Diego, California and she has been doing competition math for a while, qualifying for the USAJMO last year. Katrina is the chapter head of the San Diego INTEGIRLS and she hopes to make math competitions a great experience for contestants. Aside from math, she enjoys baking, golf, and dance.
Problem Writing Director • Chicago Chapter
Scarlet Gitelson
Scarlet Gitelson is a senior from Chicago, Illinois. She first started competitive math in middle school and has since participated in contests including the AMC, AIME, and ARML competitions. She joined INTEGIRLS in 2023 and can’t wait to create engaging and exciting contest problems for this year. When she isn’t doing math, she loves learning about astronomy, writing for her school newspaper, and baking tasty treats.
Sponsorship Director • NYC/NJ Chapter
Christina Wang
Christina is a senior at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North. She is a USAJMO qualifier, and a 2x Math Prize For Girls qualifier. She also attended the SUMaC math program. Throughout high school, she has strived to spread her passion to other young girls – an underrepresented gender in mathematics. Outside of math, Christina plays two instruments (the piano and violin), and likes sushi.
Sophia Zhu
Sophia is a current junior at Lakeside in Seattle-- she's a MP4G qualifier and was awarded the Young Women in Mathematics Award. She's passionate about teaching math to others and is excited to contribute in INTEGIRLS to create a close community for girls interested in STEM. Outside the classroom, Sophia likes to write, play golf (although not very well), and listen to Harry Styles.
Tech Director • Bay Area Chapter
Anna Deng
Anna is a senior from Fremont, California. She is passionate about all kinds of math and is eager to promote STEM to others, especially those of underrepresented genders. She has participated in a wide range of math contests, including AMC, AIME, Math Prize for Girls, BMT, SMT, and CMO. Anna also enjoys higher math, especially through her participation in programs like PROMYS. Aside from math, she enjoys figure skating, listening to music, tinkering with AI, and reading anything.
Website Director • Bay Area Chapter
Anika Rajaram
Anika is a senior at The Harker School from San Jose, California. She is excited to be a part of INTEGIRLS, where she can share her love of math with the community. Anika discovered competition math in middle school and since then, she has participated in contests like USAMO and Math Prize for Girls, received the MAA Young Women in Mathematics Prize, and attended the Ross Math Program. Other than math, she enjoys chess, coding, and playing the violin.
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Statistics/Scoreboard Director • Problem Writing
Alex Liu
Alex Liu is a junior at Green Level High School from Apex, North Carolina. He is a 3-time AIME qualifier and a 3-time member of the NC ARML Team. He believes that the math community is a really awesome place that should be inclusive to all people, which is why he joined INTEGIRLS back in 2023. In his free time, he likes to go out with his friends to various restaurants, listen to J-pop, play the violin, code, and do confusing number theory problems. You can find him on Discord as .akliu or on AoPS as akliu.
Social Media Director • Dallas/Ft. Worth Chapter
Jenny Chu
Jenny is a junior from Dallas, Texas. She's been involved in math competitions such as MATHCOUNTS and the AMC series for as long as she can remember, and she joined INTEGIRLS's problem writing and executive team to inspire new generations of girls to take charge of STEM fields. She's also the chapter head for INTEGIRLS DFW. Besides math, she enjoys writing poetry, listens to too much Spotify, researches computational biology, and eats a lot of Japanese food.
Social Media Director • LA/OC Chapter
Kimberly Vu
Kimberly is a junior at Fountain Valley High School. She first discovered competitive math and joined INTEGIRLS during her freshman year. She loves exploring intricate mathematical fields in her free time. When she's not doing math, which is not very often, she's either playing video games, rewatching Modern Family, or running. She hopes to share her passion with and inspire other people through her work on social media.
CHAPTER HEAD ADVISORS
Chapter Advisor • Executive Director • STL/MO Chapter
Shubha Gautam
Shubha Gautam is a freshman at Cornell University from Columbia, MO. Since she discovered her passion for mathematics in middle school, she has participated in many math competitions and programs, including MATHCOUNTS, ARML, AIME since 2021, SUMaC, and even a local INTEGIRLS contest. She has taught competition math to girls and non-binary persons locally, and hopes to continue her efforts toward bridging the STEM gap through INTEGIRLS. In her free time, Shubha loves to explore beautiful areas in Missouri, write, and hang out with friends.
Chapter Head Advisor • DC Chapter
Julie Steele
Julie is a junior at MIT studying computer science and AI. She enjoys conversations learning from and working with chapter heads, bringing her previous experience from growing integirls, leading the DC chapter, and being part of the puzzle team. The AIME and USAMTS were some of her favorite math competitions. She also loves to dance and do improv comedy.
Chapter Head Advisor • Houston Chapter
Ramya Iyer
Ramya is a junior at Stanford University. She fell in love with mathematics during her middle school years and has participated in numerous city, state, and national-level math competitions. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music, watching thrillers, and playing with her yorkipoo.
Chapter Advisor • Philly Chapter
Hannah Gao
Hannah Gao is a sophomore at MIT. Ever since she discovered her passion for math, she has participated in numerous math clubs and competitions, including Mathcounts and AMC. She has also qualified for the AIME and Math Prize For Girls competition. Hannah was inspired to join the INTEGIRLS community after participating in one of the puzzle hunts, and has since been dedicated to promoting its mission of bridging the gender gap in problem-solving. In her free time, Hannah loves playing violin, playing tennis, and coding!
Chapter Advisor • Dallas / Fort Worth Chapter
Helen Li
Helen is a sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin. In high school, she began participating in a variety of math competitions, where she discovered the joy of problem solving beyond a computational school curriculum. She knows how intimidating and discouraging it can often feel being one of the only girls in the room, so she was happy to join INTEGIRLS in bridging the gender gap and promoting inclusivity in the competitive math community. Besides maths, she loves reading, researching ethical AI or philosophy, and trying new things :)
Chapter Advisor • DC Chapter
Lillian Sun
Lilllian is a junior at Harvard studying computer science, mathematics, and statistics. She began math competitions in middle school and has participated in USAMO, AIME, and Math Prize for Girls. She has been with INTEGIRLS since 2020, working on outreach and fundraising as a former DC Chapter Co-President. In her free time, you can find her dancing, reading, kayaking, or trying new foods.
Chapter Advisor • Bay Area Chapter
Michelle Han
Michelle Han is freshman at MIT from Granite Bay, California. She is passionate about minimizing the gender gap in math and fostering a math-loving community for females & non-binary students. She has qualified for AIME, Math Prize for Girls, AMC 10 DHR, and has received the MAA Young Women in Mathematics Prize. Besides math, Michelle enjoys playing tennis & reading webcomics!
Chapter Advisor • D.C. Chapter
Marina Lin
Marina is college freshman who recently graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. She is passionate about math and hopes to inspire other students in STEM. She was a member of the National MATHCOUNTS team from Virginia and was given the MAA Young Women in Mathematics Prize. She has qualified for AIME and Math Prize for Girls at MIT. Besides math, Marina is an avid golfer. She also enjoys reading and writing!
Chapter Advisor • Houston Chapter
Prakriti Ashwin
Prakriti is a college freshman, recently graduated from Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas. Born and brought up in India, she is passionate about Mathematics and Science, particularly environmental engineering and genetics. She wants to help propagate STEM to girls around the world. Her other interests include reading, dance, photography, and writing novels.
PROBLEM WRITING TEAM
To learn more about the Problem Writing Team, visit integirls.org/pw
PUZZLE TEAM
Puzzle Team
Adam
Adam is a freshman at college who enjoys writing puzzles, even if he’s a bit slow at solving them. He studies science at university.
Puzzle Team
Laura Yao
Laura Yao is a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University. She has participated in many different puzzle hunts and is also a big fan of jigsaw puzzles. Laura has competed in various math modeling competitions at the national level and loves programming. She studies computer science.
Puzzle Team
Matthew Siff
Matthew Siff is a freshman at Yale University. He came to puzzle-solving through quizbowl, where he has placed in the top 10 nationally in both team and individual competitions. In his free time, Matthew is a frequent (although not particularly excellent) solver of the New York Times Crossword.
Puzzle Team
Shrikar Vasisht
Shrikar Vasisht is a sophomore at University of Maryland. He has been doing puzzle hunts since last year. Shrikar competes in many cybersecurity and programming competitions, and loves to do math. He studies computer science.
Puzzle Team
Vishal Kanigcherla
Vishal Kanigicherla graduated from TJHSST in Alexandria, Virginia in 2021. He became interested in puzzle-solving through his experience with in-school competitions and through his time playing quizbowl. Vishal spends his time reading up on neuroscience and having fun with puzzles and games.
Puzzle Team
Zain Majumder
Zain Majumder is a sophomore at University of Maryland studying Computer Science. He has been doing competitive math and programming since middle school, and has been captain of his high school's math team for two years. He enjoys all types of puzzles, but he likes Nikoli-style logic puzzles in particular.
Puzzle Team
Ellie Feng
Ellie Feng is a freshman at MIT. She discovered competitive math in middle school, and since then, she's qualified for AIME in 2020, 2021, and 2022 and was invited to Math Prize for Girls in 2022. She was introduced to puzzle hunts through the inteGIRLS spring puzzle hun which lead her to joining the puzzle writing team for inteGIRLS.