NAC-NAPC Trainers

Jingbang is a second-year PhD student in the Algorithms & Complexity Group of the University of Waterloo, advised by Richard Peng. Prior to that, he received his bachelor degree from Zhejiang University and master degree from Georgia Tech. Representing Zhejiang University, Jingbang won 12 gold medals in ICPC and CCPC series competitions including the very first ICPC Regional Champion of Zhejiang University in 2017. He participated in ICPC World Finals held in Beijing, 2018. During his first year in Georgia Tech, he won the Champion of the 2020 ICPC Southeast USA Regional Contest and 3rd place in the 2021 North America Championship. He will participate in ICPC World Finals 2022, Luxor.

Jingbang was the student co-coach of Zhejiang University from 2018 to 2021. Since 2022, he has worked as the head coach of Georgia Tech. Teams he coaches have won 6th place in the 2022 ICPC North American Championship, 8th place in the 2023 ICPC North American Championship, and Champion in the 2023 ICPC South USA Regional. They have advanced to the ICPC World Finals 2022, 2023, and 2024 North American Championship. In addition, Jingbang has also worked as a trainer at many camps, including ByteDance Winter Training Camp 2020 and 2021.

Jingbang is also an experienced problem-setter and judge for programming contests. He has served as the problem setter and chief judge for 7 ICPC regional contests since 2018, including Qingdao Regional 2018, Nanjing Regional 2020 - 2023, Macau Regional 2020 and 2022. He will be in charge of two upcoming regionals in the 2024-2025 season. Besides official contests, since 2019, he has prepared high-quality training contests for many training camps, including Moscow Pre-Finals Workshop (2020 - 2021), Petrozavodsk Training Camp (2019 - 2022), and OpenCup (2020 - 2022).

Jingbang is the president and co-founder of Universal Cup. Universal Cup is a non-profit organization dedicated to offering training resources for competitive programming teams. In the previous season, over 750 teams from more than 300 affiliations all over the world, registered and participated in a total of 22 stages, encompassing contests from Asia, Europe, and America. In the current season, there are over 3000 teams registered and more than 28 stages are scheduled.

Zac is an associate professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. His research focus is in combinatorial optimization, in particular in the design of approximation algorithms for NP-hard optimization problems. Current interests involve designing algorithms for vehicle routing problems and various optimization problems related to data clustering. Zac received his BSc from the University of Lethbridge and his MSc and PhD at the University of Alberta. He was also a postdoc in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo before starting his current position.

Zac started competitive programming during his undergraduate studies and advanced to the ICPC World Finals in 2006 and 2007, earning a bronze medal in 2006. He serves regularly as a problem setter for the Rocky Mountain Regional Contest and continues to be involved with the programming teams at the University of Alberta as a coach.

Gennady Korotkevich is a Software Engineer at Cognition in San Francisco building collaborative AI teammates including the world's first AI engineer Devin. Gennady graduated from ITMO University.

Gennady started participating in programming contests in elementary school. He has a long list of competitive programming achievements, including six gold medals at IOI, eight Google Code Jam championships, five TopCoder Open Algorithm championships, five Facebook Hacker Cup championships, and two ICPC World Finals championships. He was the first person to break the 4000 rating barrier on Codeforces.

Andrew He is a Software Engineer at Cognition in San Francisco building collaborative AI teammates including the world's first AI engineer Devin. Andrew graduated from MIT with a BS in Computer Science and Math in 2019.

Andrew started participating in programming contests in high school, and won gold medals at IOI in 2014 and 2015. He also competed in the ICPC world finals in 2016 and 2019, and placed 6th and 2nd. Andrew also received 3rd place at Google Code Jam 2020, 3rd place at Facebook HackerCup 2020, and was the Distributed Code Jam Champion in 2017. Today, Andrew is still an active participant in the competitive programming community and competes and streams regularly.

Quanquan is an assistant professor in the Yale CS department. She received her PhD in computer science and MEng/B.S. in CS/Math from MIT. Her current research focuses on scalable algorithms (in the parallel, distributed, and streaming settings) for both theory and practice, graph algorithms, and differential privacy. She has been a coach for various competitive programming competitions at the high school and undergraduate levels for the past eight years. She has been heavily involved as a coach for the USA IOI and EGOI teams, was a coach for the Northwestern ICPC team last year, and is now the incoming head coach for the Yale ICPC team.

Kevin Sun is a Software Engineer at Cognition in San Francisco building collaborative AI teammates including the world's first AI engineer Devin. Kevin graduated from MIT.

Kevin started participating in programming contests in middle school. His competitive programming achievements include winning the Yandex Cup 2023 Algorithm Final, winning 1st place at the 2024 Universal Cup Summer Summit and 2025 Universal Cup finals, and getting 2nd place at the 2019 ICPC World Finals. Kevin is an active competitor who also participates in World Puzzle Federation events.

Nick Wu is a software engineer at Amplitude building distributed systems. He graduated from Stanford University. He started participating in programming contests in high school with USACO and TopCoder and participated in ICPC representing Stanford, going to the World Finals in 2012 and 2013. He won the UPE First Solution Award in 2012. He qualified for the 2019 Google Code Jam World Finals, placing 22nd.

Nick is actively engaged in organizing various programming contests. He has been a problemsetter and judge for the Pacific Northwest regional since 2014, a problemsetter and coach for USACO since 2014, a problemsetter for the North America Championship from 2021 to 2024, an analyst at the World Finals since 2021, and a member of the Organizing Committee for Universal Cup.