Student Wins International Programming Competition
Georgia Tech continues to excel in the world’s premier student programming competition. Computer science Ph.D. student Xieting (Creatix) Chu placed first in the Third International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Challenge Championship.
The championship was recently co-hosted by the ICPC Foundation and Huawei in Shanghai, China. It featured 75 top collegiate programmers from around the world competing to solve an industry-related problem.
Contestants were given five hours to solve an optimization problem about how large language models (LLMs) manage memory. Chu’s solution enabled the model to perform more effectively and efficiently.
This isn’t Chu’s first ICPC success. In 2024, he was part of Georgia Tech’s top team at the ICPC Regionals, which earned a bronze medal at the North American Championship.
Chu began participating in ICPC events as an undergraduate student and quickly discovered how much he liked solving programming “puzzles.”
“I enjoy both programming and solving very hard problems,” he said.
He said the events have given him a community of fellow programmers to learn from and to make friends with.
“ICPC is like family. Every time I take part in a competition, I get to see old and new friends,” Chus said.
Georgia Tech’s College of Computing served as the official host of the inaugural ICPC North America Championship. The competition took place at the Georgia World Congress Center in February 2020.
