CMU-Q, QU win national programming competition

CMU-Q, QU win national programming competition

CMU-Q, QU win national programming competition

August 11 2022 11:04 PM



Teams from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) and Qatar University (QU) took the top two spots at the 2022 Qatar Collegiate Programming Competition (QCPC). Both teams will advance to the regional competition in Egypt in December. The competition was hosted by CMU-Q, a Qatar Foundation partner university.

The students on the winning team—Thang Bui, Andrey Genze and Ulan Seitkaliyev—are studying computer science at CMU-Q. All three students placed in the top two of last year’s competition as well. The silver medallist team members were Ahmed Ashraf, Youssef Elshahawy, and Faisal Abughazaleh from QU. In his address at the closing ceremony, CMU-Q dean Michael Trick said: “Programming competitions are about building a community around creative problem solving. The more opportunities that young programmers in Qatar have to come together and solve problems, the more the computing ecosystem in Qatar will thrive.”

The competition was organised by CMU-Q’s Giselle Reis, associate area head and associate teaching professor of computer science, and Eduardo Feo Flushing, visiting assistant teaching professor of computer science. Reis noted how much the teams improved since last year’s competition. “We could see how the teams were more