Carnegie Mellon Qatar Student Team Wins in Oman Programming Competition

Press release

Published October 21st, 2018 - 07:48 GMT

Fifth Place Team with Faculty Advisor Giselle Reid

A team of three Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) students won the Oman Collegiate Programming Competition on October 17 at Sultan Qaboos University in Muscat. Mohammed Yusuf Ansari, Mohammed Nurul Hoque and Akhyar Kamili were the only team to solve nine of 12 problems.

A second CMU-Q team, comprised of Sameer Ahmad, Ishaq Yusuf Haj Hasan and Hari Krishna, placed fifth in the competition. A total of 52 teams from 22 institutions participated. Both CMU-Q teams have now qualified to compete at the Arab Collegiate Programming Competition regional competition.

Michael Trick, dean of CMU-Q, congratulated the students for the win: “We are very proud of how these six students represented CMU-Q, and the state of Qatar, at this competition in Oman. Our students work very hard and produce high quality work, and it is gratifying to share their talent with the international community.”

“I would also like to congratulate the entire team of CMU-Q computer science professors, and in particular Giselle Reis who advised the students, for their dedication to computer science education,” he continued. “This win reflects the quality of their teaching and their commitment to student learning.”

All six students were part of CMU-Q’s Computer Science Program, which follows the curriculum for Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, a world leader in computer science education.

Background Information

Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

For more than a century, Carnegie Mellon University has challenged the curious and passionate to imagine and deliver work that matters. A private, top-ranked and global university, Carnegie Mellon sets its own course with programs that inspire creativity and collaboration.

In 2004, Carnegie Mellon and Qatar Foundation began a partnership to deliver select programs that will contribute to the long-term development of Qatar. Today, Carnegie Mellon Qatar offers undergraduate programs in biological sciences, business administration, computational biology, computer science, and information systems. Nearly 400 students from 38 countries call Carnegie Mellon Qatar home.