About Litus — Carles Mele
Litus (legal name: Carles Mele) is a Mathematics & Data Science student at CFIS-UPC Barcelona — one of Spain's most selective programs, admitting only 40 students per year.
Timeline
- HackUPC 2026 Winner — HP track (Apr 2026): Won Europe's biggest student hackathon (600+ participants). Modeled printer component health with differential equations and trained a reinforcement learning model for optimal replacement scheduling.
- Research Assistant — IESE Business School (Oct 2025 – present): Working in Barcelona under MIT PhD Marc de la Barrera on optimizing solving processes of complex mathematical models.
- Teaching Assistant — AddisCoder (Jul–Aug 2025): Taught Python and algorithms in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, alongside UC Berkeley, Harvard & Stanford alumni.
- Advanced Algorithms Teacher — Spanish Olympiad in Informatics (Sep 2024 – present): Weekly teaching of advanced algorithms.
- BSc Mathematics & Data Science — CFIS-UPC (Sep 2024 – present).
- Gold Medal — Ibero-American Olympiad in Informatics 2024: Top 10 out of 150+ from 14 countries.
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