Recently, the 44th ICPC world finals was held in Moscow. International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is recognized as the largest and highest level international college student programming competition in the world. Affected by the pandemic, the finals are divided into online and offline tracks. All domestic colleges and universities choose to participate online. The participating teams are selected from more than 56000 contestants from more than 3400 universities in 111 countries around the world. Each team is composed of three people, who can solve a variety of complex programming problems within the specified 5 hours, and fully test their professional technology, innovative thinking, team spirit and pressure resistance.

(The Organizing Committee of the 44th ICPC world finals announced that the Beijing Normal University team won the high honors award)

The representative team of Beijing Normal University is composed of students Wu Jianrong from School of Artificial Intelligence, Li Dingmao and Wu Songyuan from School of Mathematical Sciences, and is guided by teachers Feng Su and Xu Pengfei from School of Artificial Intelligence. A total of 56 teams participated in the world finals, which is the sixth time that the BNU team has advanced to the ICPC world finals. The BNU team played well in the competition and finally won the Top 25% High Honors Award in the online competition with the result of 12th place, creating the best result of BNU in the ICPC world finals.

BNU students have participated in ICPC competition since 2001. Over the past 20 years, BNU has attached great importance to promoting the cultivation of innovative information technology talents through programming competition, and continuously improved the competition and training mechanism in practice, so that the programming competition team can enter the ICPC World Finals for many times in recent ten years. Feng Su, Professor of School of Artificial Intelligence, won the Honorary Coach Trophy awarded by ICPC Organizing Committee in the 2019 World Finals.

In recent years, the influence and scale of International Collegiate Programming Contest have been expanding, which has become one of the important symbols to measure the level of computer education and talent training in colleges and universities. In this competition, Beijing Normal University was once again shortlisted in the World Finals and finally ranked 12th, indicating that the school has considerable international competitiveness in this field.