Over the last several months, the CUHK programming team has competed in various ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) regional contests fighting for one of the 17 World Finals spots assigned to the Asia East Continent region consisting of hundreds of teams from all the top universities in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. One of the participating teams “HKOI 0”, which is formed by three UG students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering: Hsieh Chong Ho, Ng Hiu Tsun, Wai Ka Hei, has advanced to the World Finals which will be held at Astana of Kazakhstan (https://worldfinals.icpc.global/). The team is the only team from Hong Kong which has qualified for the World Finals this year.
The same team also just won as the Champion the ACM-HK Programming Contest 2024 earlier this month. Moreover, it is the only team who could solve all 7 challenging programming problems in the 4-hours contest which was held for all the University programming teams in Hong Kong.
