Taiwan bags seven medals at International AI Olympiad

Taiwanese senior high school students won three silver and four bronze medals at the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI), according to National Central University (NCU), which organized Team Taiwan.

The third edition of the competition was held in Astana, Kazakhstan, from Aug. 2-8, attracting 466 students from 108 countries and regions, NCU said in a press release yesterday.

The university’s Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering selected and trained eight students to represent Taiwan at the competition with subsidies from the K-12 Education Administration under the Ministry of Education.

Taiwanese students who took part in the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence pose for a photograph with Taiwan’s national flag in an undated photograph.

Photo courtesy of the National Central University

Contestants in the individual contest were required to complete up to six tasks that tested their ability to apply AI tools and machine learning to solve real-world problems, according to the IOAI program booklet.

Gold medals were awarded to the top 37 contestants in the individual contest. Silver medals went to the next 72 participants, while bronze medals were awarded to the next 110 contestants.

The three silver medalists from Taiwan were Hung Chun- jui (洪鈞睿), a student at Taichung Municipal Taichung First Senior High School, who placed 44th overall; Wen En- han (溫恩翰), from Taipei Municipal Zhonglun High School, who placed 47th; and Wang Hung-min (王泓閔), from Tainan First Senior High School, who placed 97th.

The four bronze medals were won by Yen Kang-yu (顏 康宇), a student at Kaohsiung Municipal Kaohsiung Senior High School, who placed 113th overall; Huang Pin-hsun (黃品薰), from Kaohsiung Municipal Kaohsiung Girls’ Senior High School, who placed 125th; Hsieh Meng-shan (謝孟杉), from Taipei’s non-school-based experimental education program, who placed 156th; and Chiu Yen-sung (邱彥淞) from Taipei Chingshin Academy High School, who placed 162nd.

NCU said this year’s IOAI was the second-largest international science Olympiad competition in terms of participants, after the International Mathematical Olympiad, with students from 108 countries and regions taking part.

The university said it plans to continue selecting and training promising AI talent to participate in international competitions.