About

Hi there. I’m Bel Ami — it’s pronounced Bellamy, and honestly, just call me that. I’m a senior at Carnegie Mellon in Qatar, doing Computer Science, with minors in Mathematical Sciences and Business Administration.

Though if I’m honest, maths came first. It’s the thing that always clicked, and it’s how I ended up at the IMO and PAMO in 2022. I went with Computer Science anyway — back home, pure maths is mostly assumed to end in teaching, and I wanted more doors open. Turns out I didn’t really have to choose. The maths came along with me.

And then finance sort of crept in. I’d love to say it was something noble, but it was probably The Big Short and The Wolf of Wall Street. It stuck, though. So applied mathematics and computer science are still the base — finance is just where I’d like to aim them. Maybe a master’s at some point. A PhD hasn’t convinced me yet.

Outside of all that, I’m usually listening to classical music or a history podcast, or catching up on the news. I’m learning piano too, through a studio elective — that one’s going slowly.

Experience

Research Fellow, QRDI Council — Undergraduate Research Experience Program
Nov 2025 – present · Doha
Summer Research Intern, Qatar Computing Research Institute — QCAI
May – Aug 2025 · Doha
Software Engineer Intern, Infra del Sur S.A. de C.V.
May – Jul 2025 · Mérida, Mexico
Open-Source Contributor, Eclipse Foundation — Adoptium
May – Aug 2024 · Remote

Teaching

Undergraduate TA at CMU-Q since Aug 2024 — 70+ students, 45+ solution guides.

70-122: Introduction to Accounting · Fall 2024
21-124: Calculus II for Biologists & Chemists · Fall 2024
15-110: Principles of Computing · Fall 2025
21-122: Integration and Approximation · Fall 2025
99-520: Applied Software Engineering · Summer 2026
15-122: Principles of Imperative Computation · Fall 2026
15-451: Algorithms Design and Analysis · Fall 2026

Service

Still coaching the cohorts behind me, in Rwanda and across the continent.

Trainer — Geometry & Combinatorics, African Olympiad Academy, Rising Stars
Mar 2025 – Jul 2025
Coach & problem selection, Rwanda Mathematics Olympiad
Aug 2022 – Jan 2025
Coach & PAMO coordinator, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Aug 2022 – Jan 2024

Books

I'm not really into reading new books these days, but these have stuck with me — I like going back to them:

Animal Farm — George Orwell
The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
A Mathematician’s Apology — G. H. Hardy
The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch & Jeffrey Zaslow
How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
The Secret — Rhonda Byrne

Music

I mentioned the classical music. Here are the pieces I keep coming back to:

Waloyo Yamoni — Christopher Tin
Nelle Tue Mani — Andrea Bocelli
O Sole Mio · Libiamo · Funiculì Funiculà — Bocelli
Zadok the Priest — Handel
Instrumentals — Beethoven, Bach

Say hello

That's me, and I'd love to hear from you — whether you want to talk about anything above, share ideas, or just have a chat.