Mr. Nguyen Long - General Secretary of Vietnam Information Technology Association
Vietnam officially registered for the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) in 2005, hosting the first regional qualifying round of the ICPC Asia at the University of Technology - VNU in April 2006. From 2006 to now, for 19 consecutive years, Vietnam has been in the Top 100-140 universities with representatives attending the ICPC Global Finals with the highest rank of 12 - Bronze Medal in 2022. Currently, the ICPC competition is increasingly attracting students and growing strongly in the number of teams worldwide, from 6 continents divided into 9 smaller continents to organize the ICPC Continental Finals. Asia is divided into 3 ICPC Finals: Asia East, Asia West and Asia Pacific. From the Regional Final, Asia Pacific will select the 16 best teams to represent the ICPC Global Final 2024 held in Kazakhstan in September 2024. With 17 years of experience in organizing regional competitions with quality and efficiency, Vietnam is honored to be nominated by Asia-Pacific countries to host the first ICPC Asia Pacific Final at the University of Technology - VNU. Previously, from the ICPC Regional rounds, 5 championship teams were selected (from 5 points: Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and Indonesia), along with 60 teams with the highest rankings in the region selected by ICPC Asia Pacific to win the right to participate in the Final to compete for the Championship title in Hanoi (including 3 teams from the University of Technology), from the ICPC Final, the 16 best teams will represent Asia Pacific to participate in the ICPC Global Final in 2024 in Kazakhstan.
Representative of the Organizing Committee, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Le Sy Vinh - Head of Information Technology Department, University of Technology, VNU, spoke.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Sy Vinh - Head of the Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, VNU, expressed his honor when the University of Technology took on the responsibility of hosting this year's exam. The University of Technology, VNU, is a place to train talents and organize training for excellent exams at all levels nationwide and internationally. For many consecutive years, the school's fields have been ranked high on world rankings such as QS rankings, THE. In 2023, 6 fields of VNU, Hanoi continue to be ranked by QS Rankings, including 4 fields under the management and training of the University of Technology: Engineering and Technology group (Engineering & Technology) top 451-500 in the world; Computer Science and Information Systems (Computer Science & Information Systems) top 501-550 in the world; Engineering – Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacture (Engineering – Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacture) top 501-520 in the world; and Engineering – Electrical & Electronic (Engineering – Electrical & Electronic) top 501-520 in the world; Physics & Astronomy (Physics & Astronomy) top 551-600 in the world. The school is a trusted partner of large, prestigious domestic and international partners, and is the first choice of parents and excellent students when the annual admission scores to the school's training programs are among the top universities in the field of engineering technology nationwide, the employment rate of graduates is high, reaching over 95%. Students of the University of Technology have achieved many high results in major national and international competitions, including the ICPC Programming Competition. In particular, in 2022, the School's EggCentroy team represented Vietnam in the ICPC Global Finals and won a Bronze medal. This is the first time a Vietnamese representative has won a prize at the ICPC Global Finals and is also the first time ASEAN countries have won a prize in the world's most prestigious programming competition. Many excellent students of the school have been working and interning at large enterprises such as: Google, Facebook, MS, Amazon, VNPT, Viettel, FPT, VNG, ... or have become StartUp Unicorns.
EggCentroy Team of University of Technology won Bronze medal at the Final Round of the 2022 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)
Associate Professor Dr. Le Sy Vinh hopes that the contest will be a fair playground, finding programming talents, and at the same time creating an environment for Vietnamese students to exchange and learn with international friends. Student Pham Quoc Hung, QH-2023-I/CQ, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, one of the members of the team of the University of Technology - VNU, participating in this contest, expressed his joy and pride when entering the international arena. Quoc Hung said that this is a very important contest and opens up many opportunities for students in the future, a playground to help students get closer to science and technology in the world. With a team competition, the factor of teamwork skills is very high, each member needs to understand each other and promote all of their abilities, and each individual in the team needs to have a solid grasp of knowledge in using programming skills, practicing professional thinking. “I hope that with the efforts of both teachers and students in the past time, we will bring back many good results for the University of Technology in particular and Vietnam in general.”
Student Pham Quoc Hung (left photo), QH-2023-I/CQ, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology.
The International Student Programming Contest – Asia-Pacific Finals opens up opportunities to promote international academic exchanges, especially Programming – Algorithm skills, teamwork skills, and high-intensity completion between Vietnamese students and students from leading IT universities in the Asia-Pacific region; Forming a model of the Asia-Pacific Standard Finals and having the first student programming rankings through ICPC Asia Pacific Championship; Strengthening international cooperation relationships, affirming the capacity to organize regional and world-class competitions of the University of Engineering and Technology – VNU, as well as enhancing the prestige and class of the University during 20 years of establishment and development.
Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh Thuy - Chairman of the Council of Professors of Information Technology, Chairman of the Faculty - School - Institute of Information Technology Club of Vietnam and Mr. Nguyen Long - General Secretary of the Vietnam Association of Information Technology took a souvenir photo with the teams of the University of Technology.
(UET-News)
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