UBC Programming Team History

This page has a history of how the UBC teams did in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.

"CSx" means "xth-year undergraduate in Computer Science". "CS MSx" means "xth year MS student in CS".

NB: there are undoubtedly errors and definitely missing into in this; please help me fix them!

2007-2008

Coach: Ducky Sherwood (CS MS2)
WF: Xth place (Banff)
Regional (detailed):
- 1st -- UBC^: Anton Likhtarov (CS+Math3), Patrick Nguyen (CS MS1), Henry Wong (ECE MS2)
- 2nd -- UBC*: Chris Head (CS3), Robert Tseng (CS+Math3), Simon Suyadi (ENPH 4 coop)
- 10th -- UBC+: Sandy Robertson (CS4), Cedric Lin (CS2), Andrew Thomson (Math/CS5)

Reserves: George Stelle (CS4), Byron Knoll (CS+CogSys4)

Patrick competed in 3 regionals and one WF (tied for 19th place in 2006) for Simon Fraser University.

Coach: Matthew Chan (CS MS2)
WF: 14th place (Tokyo)
Regional: 1, 2, 7
- 1st -- UBC^: Yury Kholondyrev (CS MS2), Anton Likhtarov (CS+Math2), Igor Ostrovsky (CS5 coop)
- 2nd -- UBC*: Christopher Head (CS2), Robert Tseng (CS+Math2), Henry Wong (ECE MS1)
- 7th -- UBC+: Simon Suyadi (ENPH 3 coop), Ryan Yee (CS4), Ying Yin (ECE 3)

Reserve: Elena Kholondyrev

Henry competed in one WF (tied for 19th place in 2006) and three regionals for University of Toronto.

Coach: Bartholomew Furrow (Physics, MS2)
WF: 13th place (Texas)
Regional: 1, 4, 14
- 1st -- UBC^: Yury Kholondyrev (CS MS1), Wei-Lung Dustin Tseng (CS+Math4), Matthew Chan (CS MS1)
- 4th -- UBC*: Igor Ostrovsky (CS4 coop), Roman Rudenko (CS MS1), Michael Chuang
- 14th -- UBC+: Anton Likhtarov (CS+Math1), David Freedman and Mike Li
- 4th team: Andrew Rothbart, Chris Head (CS1), and Ryan Yee.

Matthew Chan went to the WF (tied for 12th, 2005) with Hong Kong University.

Coach Jonathan Backer (Grad, CS)
WF: 17th place (Shanghai)
regionals: 1, 3, 17
- 1st -- UBC0: Igor Naverniouk (CS MS2), Frank Pok Man Chu (CS4), Bartholomew Furrow (Physics MS1)
- 3rd -- UBC1: Yury Kholondyrev (CS2), Keith Dunwoody, Siamak Tazari
- 17th -- UBCX: Igor Ostrovsky, Ryan Yee, Alex Shyr
reserves: Dustin Tseng, Mike Li

Bartholomew previous won a bronze medal for Queen University, 12th place team as an undergrad.

Frank Chu, coached by Igor N, went on to tie for 14th place in the World Finals in 2007 on the UToronto team.

Coach Jonathan Backer (CS PhD)
WF: 15th (Prague)
Regional: 1, 3, 4
- 1st -- UBC0: Sebastian Kanthak, Markus Moll, Wolfgang Hess
- 3rd -- UBC1: Peng Zhao, Mark Yen, (ECE), Tudor Costin, (Physics)
- 4th -- UBCX: Igor Naverniouk (CS MS1?), Frank Pok Man Chu (Math/Computer Science), Andrew Rothbart

Reserve: Yury Kholondyrev (CS1)

(Wow, the UBC teams were all close together! Stanford kept them from a 1-2-3 sweep.)

Sebastian, Markus, and Wolfgang were all exchange students from Germany.

Peng Zhao competed for Tsinghua in the 1998 World Finals.

Jonathan Backer won a bronze medal for UAlberta, tie at 13th place in the 2000 World Finals.

Coach: Darrell Lahey (Grad, CS) and Jonathan Backer (CS PhD)
Regional: 3, 29, 30
- 3rd -- UBC 0: Zhao Peng (Grad CS), Igor Naverniouk (Math/CS4?), and Keith Dunwoody (UGrad, EngPhys)
- 29th -- UBC 10: Brook Jones (UGrad, CS), Collin Chan (UGrad, CS, and Mark Yen (UGrad, ECE).
- 30th -- UBC1: Frank Chu (UGrad, CS), Albert Jiang (UGrad, CS/Phys), and Alex Vostrov (UGrad, CS)

The WF was in Beverley Hills.

Coach: Alex Brodsky (Grad, CS)
Regional:
- 6th -- UBC1: Igor Naverniouk (Honours Math/CS3?), Stefan Pochmann (Grad, CS), and Wesley Terpstra (Ugrad, Honours Math/CS)
- 7th -- UBC0: Keith Dunwoody (Ugrad, Eng. Phys), Warren Cheung (Ugrad, CS and Microbiology), and Darrell Lahey (Grad, CS)

Alternate: Ali Taleghani

The WF was in Honolulu.

Coach: Alan Hu
Regional: 7, 9, 11
- 9th -- UBC 0: Albert Lai, Chung Ming Victor Cheng, Joseph Wong
- 11th -- UBC 1: Darell Lahey, I-Gene Leong, Keith Dunwoody

The World Finals were in Vancouver.