Teams from the Illinois Grainger College of Engineering and Siebel School of Computing and Data Science recently competed in two International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC) events, the 2024 World Finals and the Mid-Central Regionals.
Written by Bruce Adams
Teams from the Illinois Grainger College of Engineering recently competed in two International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC) events, the 2024 World Finals and the Mid-Central Regionals. The ICPC is an algorithmic programming contest for college students. It is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world. More than 50,000 students participate in three-person teams representing more that 3,000 universities.
Mid-Central Regionals
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign hosted a regional competition on November 9. A total of 76 teams competed, with 24 taking part on campus. Illinois teams got second, fourth, sixth, ninth, and twelfth places at the ICPC regionals, competing with top teams from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Purdue University, Vanderbilt University and Washington University of St. Louis.
Team Ippatsu finished second. Ippatsu, made up of Yuuki Sawanoi, Dilhan Salgado, and Zhikun Wang, will move to the next stage of the competition -- the North American Championship in Orlando, Florida.
Team 404 Brain Not Found finished ninth. Three female students: Audra Aurora Izzani, Lai Wei, and Loretta Shang made up the team.
Three first-year students, Brian Li, Canchen Li, and Enya Chen, competed as Team nonchalant sigmas and finished in twelfth place.
CS PhD student David Zheng oversaw the teams’ training and helped to run the regional contest. CS student David Han and ECE student Letian Zhang assisted with training. Illinois ICPC teams are coached by CS professor Mattox Beckman.
World Finals
Team Ippatsu, consisting of Illinois students David Fu (CS), Aditya Jain (Mathematics) and Yuuki Sawanoi (CS+ Mathematics) competed in the 48th World Finals on September 20 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The team solved five problems, which placed them 69th out of 141 teams, and were awarded the category of Championship Honors.
Grainger Engineering Affiliations
Mattox Beckman is an Illinois Grainger Engineering professor of computer science.