Levent Alpoge
New York
Levent Alpoge, 17, from Dix Hills, submitted a computer science project to the
Intel Science Talent Search investigating the algorithms used to analyze MRI
scans on human blood vessels and suggesting significant improvements. According
to Levent, current algorithms fail in the area near bifurcations-points where a
large vessel splits into two smaller ones. He addresses this problem by using
novel geometric methods to improve accuracy while significantly enhancing speed
(up to 500 fold) through parallel processing. Levent is first author of a
computer science paper on a blood vessel detection method published in Insight
Journal and, in his spare time, enjoys financial portfolio optimization and
derivatives pricing. At Half Hollow Hills High School West, Levent has earned
six varsity letters in soccer and tennis, heads Mathletes, participates on the
varsity winter track team, is vice president of Science Olympiads and scored
perfect SATs. The son of Oguz and Simay Alpoge, Levent is fluent in Turkish and
hopes to study math at Princeton or Harvard. Ultimately, he plans to become a
researcher of number theory - a branch of mathematics that is his foremost
passion.
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