By Ioana Patringenaru
San Diego, Calif., Nov. 20, 2015 — A team of UC San Diego computer science students tied with seven other campuses for first place in the 2015 ACM Southern California Regional Programming Contest on Nov. 14.
The tie was finally resolved based on the time it took to solve problems, with the UC San Diego team landing in fourth place, after Caltech, USC and UCLA. Fourth-ranked UC San Diego Team "Phuket" was comprised of Juliati Alafate, Chicheng Zhang and Lifan Wu.
Hat tip to graduate student coaches Igors Stepanovs and Yuliang Li, as well as faculty coach Michael Taylor.
In all, UC San Diego fielded four teams during the competition. The other three teams placed 14th, 15th and 19th out of 89 teams that took place in the competition. Members of the other three teams were:
Karan Wadhera
Jason Wu
Timothy Wang
Archana Radhakrishna
Darshan Patil
Ujjwal Gulecha
Huayin Zhou
Galen Krulce
Huajie Wu
Yeyao Tao
Junxi Li
Zhiwei Jia
Sung Rim Huh
More info:
Team website: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/groups/UCSDProgramContest/
For final standings, go to: http://socalcontest.org/history/2015/details-2015.shtml
This post originally appeared on the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering blog.