An École Polytechnique's team ranked in the 46th ICPC world finals

A team of three École Polytechnique's students is among the ranked participants in the 46th world finals of the world's most prestigious student programming contest, the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). 

The 46th and 47th World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) were a combined edition of the 2022 and 2023 World Finals, due to postponements caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic.  They took place from April 14 to 18 in Luxor, Egypt. A total of 263 teams from over 50 countries took part.

Open to students from universities all over the world, the ICPC is an annual team-based algorithmic programming competition. Each team, made up of three members, receives a dozen algorithmic problems and must solve as many as possible in five hours, using a single computer to write the programs in C, C++, Java, Python or Kotlin.

The X team, comprising Killian Dengreville (X19), Matthias Hasler (MSc&T20) and François Sellier (X18), came 26th in the 46th final, having solved six of the 11 problems submitted to the participants. The company had previously distinguished itself at the ICPC Southwestern Europe Regional Constest (SWERC) 2021-2022 competition, held on April 23 and 23, 2022 in Milan.

To be selected for the SWERC 2021-2022 team, team members took part in three programming contest preparation courses: “International Collegiate Programming Contest Training”, “Competitive Programming” and “Algorithms and Advanced Programming”, taught by Hang Zhou, a professor at X, and practiced assiduously, including weekends. 

Preparation for the programming competitions is supported by the Computer Science Department (DIX).