Columbia Competitive Programming

• Join the Columbia competitive programming community on Discord. Columbia students can contact yongwhan.lim@columbia.edu or find the server through the Columbia University community.

2026-2027 cycle

• Greater New York Regional: Sunday, November 8, 2026.

• Columbia University Local Contest: Saturday, October 24, 2026.

• North America Qualifier: Saturday, October 3, 2026 - online.

• Columbia-2 (2025 - 2026 cycle): Josh Bernheisel; Songwen Zhao; Rohan Timmaraju;

• Competed at the 2026 ICPC North America Championship in Orlando.

• Columbia finished 4th (8 solved) at the 2025 Greater New York Regional.

• Columbia-CU Again (2024 - 2025 cycle): Matthew Lou; Emma Yin; Brian Zhao;

  • Advanced to North America Champinoship (NAC) @ Orlando, Florida

  • 3rd place in 2025 Spring Rutgers University Programming Contest (RUPC)

  • 3rd place / Bronze in Greater New York (GNY) Regional @ New York, New York

• Columbia-CU later (2023 - 2024 cycle)

  • 51th place in 48th World Finals (WF) @ Astana, Kazakhstan

  • 2nd place in 2025 Spring Rutgers University Programming Contest (RUPC) (without Kevin Yang)

  • 3rd place / Silver in 2024 North America Championship (NAC) @ Orlando, Florida

  • 5th place in Greater New York (GNY) Regional @ New York, New York

  • Team Members

    • Innokentiy Kaurov (ikaurov, 2549): IOI 2023 Silver; ICPC NAC 2024 Silver;

    • Eric Yuang Shao (serichaoo, 2127): IPhO 2023 Bronze; Putnam 2023 Honorable Mention; ICPC NAC 2024 Silver;

    • Kevin Yang (yangster67, 2583): ICPC NAC 2024 Silver;

ICPC World Finals (WF) [Qualified 7x]

• • 2027: TBD

  • 2026: DNQ

  • 2025: DNQ

  • 2024 (9/20/2024): 51th / 141 (5 problems / 12): Kevin Yang; Innokentiy Kaurov; Eric Yuang Shao;

  • 2023: DNQ

  • 2022 (4/18/2024): 26th / 124 (6 problems / 11): Jiajie Lai, Kaiheng Dai, Kevin Yang

  • [Invitational] 2020 (9/30/2021): 33rd / 52 (3 problems / 13): Hengjie Zhang, Runzhou Tao, Zhenjia Xu

  • 2019 (4/4/2019): 62nd / 135 (4 problems / 11): Aditya Shah, Bicheng Gao, Victor Cyril L Lecomte

  • 2018 (4/19/2018): 31st / 140 (5 problems / 11): Haomin Long, Peilin Zhong, Ying Sheng

  • 2013 (7/3/2013): 27th / 119 (5 problems / 11): Gang Hu, Long Chen, Xinhao Yuan

  • 2010 (2/5/2010): 36th / 103 (4 problems / 11): Jingyue Wu, Varungopal Jalan, Zifeng Yuan

ICPC North America Championship (NAC) [Qualified 6x]

• 2027: TBD

• 2026: Josh Bernheisel; Songwen Zhao; Rohan Timmaraju;

• 2025: Matthew Lou; Jiusi (Emma) Yin; Bufan (Brian) Zhao;

• 2024 (3rd / Silver): Kevin Yang; Innokentiy Kaurov; Eric Yuang Shao;

• 2023: DNQ

• 2022: Jiajie Lai; Kaiheng Dai; Kevin Yang;

• 2021: Shrihan Pasikanti; Shyam Pandya; Zhenjia Xu;

• 2020: Hengjie Zhang; Runzhou Tao; Zhenjia Xu;

ICPC Greater New York Regional (GNY)

• 2026: TBD, hosted at Touro University

• 2025: 3rd (20 Columbia teams), hosted at Columbia University

• 2024: 3rd Bronze (6 Columbia teams), Online

• 2023: 5th (15 Columbia teams), hosted at Columbia University

• 2022: 9th (23 Columbia teams), hosted at Sacred Heart University

• 2021: 1st / Champion (13 Columbia teams): Jiajie Lai, Kaiheng Dai, Kevin Yang

ICPC North America Qualifier (NAQ)

• 2026: 53 Columbia one-person teams officially submitted at least one problem.

• 2025: 70

• 2024: 22

• 2023: 62

• 2022: 67 Columbia three-person teams officially submitted at least one problem.