My name is Max Guy, I'm a 4th year Mathematics and Statistics student at the University of Edinburgh with my academic interests focussed mainly in the fields of data science, programming, statistics and computational mathematics.

I am the project manager for a software subteam at HYPED where I focus on the navigation of a pod which will be running through a vacuum tube at similar velocities to an aircraft. HYPED is one of the most advanced and successful university teams of its type.

Recently in HYPED, my focus has shifted from the direct development of software to more of a mentorship/ development role for my team. While I still actively write and review code, I have been working more to further both the programming and wider skillset of my team. This has involved teaching effective communication in a software development context and showing how to increase the overall quality of code.

My fourth year honors project involves building a fast linear programming solver from scratch in C++. This is designed for use in a compiler and so needs to be both reliable and lightweight. My code for this project can be found here. The final solver managed to solve the approximately 150,000 problems in 2.5 seconds on average when run on a standard laptop.

In my spare time, I participate in various hackathons and work on different data science projects that interest me. I can comfortably write code in python, C++ and R however I am always excited to learn more!