We are excited to share the Rutgers University Competitive Programming (RUCP) Club team members, Nick Belov (senior, Math + CS major), Eric Yang (junior, ECE+CS major), and Matt Klosin (freshman, CS major) won regionals at The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). They solved 11 problems and took home first place, besting a field of great teams from across the region.
ICPC is a renowned competition where college students form teams of three to tackle algorithmic programming problems with their knowledge, skills, and collaboration. This year, the highly competitive ICPC Greater New York Regional Contest saw 83 teams from universities such as Rutgers, NYU, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and Cornell, competing to solve 13 problems in a five-hour race. Rutgers teams delivered an exceptional performance.
Rutgers' success did not stop here. In fact, five Rutgers teams placed in the top 12, and all 16 participating Rutgers teams successfully solved at least two problems.
Here are the five Rutgers teams in the top 12:
Team Albatross (rank 1): Nicholas Belov, Eric Yang, Mateusz Klosin
Team likely singularity (rank 6): Daniel Baumgartner, Timothy Wu, Michael Schleppy
Team Ostrich (rank 8): Jeffrey Zhang, Pratyoy Biswas, Rohit Amarnath
Team Phoenix (rank 10): Pinhuan Wang, Yiming Huang, Maxwell Goldberg
Team monocorp (rank 12): Thomas Durie, James Belov, Andrew Xie
“Thank you to all the volunteers. These Rutgers students and alumni, through their support and dedicated volunteer work, are the ones that make this success possible,” said CS Assistant Professor and Club Coach, Kangning Wang.
