The 2022 ICPC Asia Kunming Regional Contest was held online recently. The ZUFE team made up of Zhang Yaoyao, Zhu Xinyu, and Zhang Weikang from the School of Information Management and Artificial Intelligence, coached by Professor Chen Yanhong and Wu Haiyan, bagged the silver.
The contest attracted 889 teams from 317 universities including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University, Beihang University, Nanjing University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Teams of three, each provided with one computer, worked to develop programs to solve 13 English algorithmic problems, with a grueling five-hour deadline. The problems were of varying flavor, thus requiring a good command of searching, dynamic programming, greedy algorithm, number theory, graph theory, data structure, probability theory, combinatorics, and other knowledge.
Hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is known as the largest and most prestigious programming contest in the world for college students, which aims to enable contestants to fully demonstrate their creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving prowess and the ability to perform under pressure. This year marks the 46th annual event. The ICPC Asia Kunming Regional Contest is the sixth regional this year.
