We would like to thank you for your support of the International University Programming Contest (ICPC).
This project was a massive collaboration, and its success was the combined effort of many individuals and teams. Hanzhao (Maggie) Lin led the overall technical direction of the Gemini competitive programming and ICPC 2025 efforts, and led the overall research and execution in collaboration with Heng-Tze Cheng.
ICPC 2025 team leaders and key contributors are: Chenkai Kuang, Yuan Liu, Zhaoqi Leng, Jieming Mao, Lalit Jain, Chenjie Gu, Goran Žužić, Adams Yu, YaGuang Li, Xiaomeng Yang, Yang Xiao, Adam Zhang, Alex Vitvitzyi, Ashkan Norouzi Fard, Blanca Huergo, Evan Liu, Golnaz Ghiasi, Huang Gui, John Aslanides, Jonathan Lee, Kuba Rakki, Larisa Markieva, Ruhen He, Nigamaa Nayakanti, Nikos Parosidis, Paul Covington , Petar Velichkovic, Qijun Tang, Raga Kotikalapudi, Rensheng Wang, Sasan Tavakol, Shuan Liu, Siddharth Mudgal, Steve Lee, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Xianghong Luo, Xinying Song, Yiming Li, Zicheng Xu.
Advanced Gemini Deep Think for ICPC includes Gemini, Aja Huang, Andreas Kirsch, Ankesh Anand, Archit Sharma, Betty Chan, Chenxi Liu, Cosmo Du, Dawsen Hwang, Dustin Tran, Edward Lockhart, Feryal Behbahani, Fred Zhang, Garrett Bingham, Hao Zhou, Hoang Post-training, built on collaborative foundational research from the thinking and coding areas. Nguyen, Irene Kai, Jian Li, Jarrod Khan, Jung Joon Hyuk, Kim Junsu, Kate Baumri, Keifang Hsiao, Li Hou, Lei Yu, Maciej Kula, Mahan Mari Hi, Marcelo Menegalli, Miklós Z. Horvath, Mirek Olšák, Nate Cushman, Pei Sun, Pol Moreno, Rosemary Ke, Sahitya Potruri, Sęgoo, Shuva Ra. Guvendra, Siamak Shakeri, Sid Lal, Stephen Zheng, Tan Luong, Theophan Weber, Tong He, Tianhe (Kevin) Yu, Triu Trinh, Vikas Yadav, Vinay Ramash, Binh Tran, Weiyue Wang, Wilfried Bunshi, Xiyang Luo, Yangxibo Huang, Yi Tei, Yong Chen, Yuan-chang, Yuri Cerbony, and Eugene Zhang.
The effort was advised by Quoc Le and Vahab Mirrokni, with program and operations management by Kristen Chiafullo, Eric Ni, Srinivas Tadepalli, Jessica Lo, and Sajjad Zafar.
We would also like to thank competitive programming experts Alexander Grushetsky, Chun-Sung Ferng, Ilya Kornakov, Liang Bai, Petr Mitrichev, and Sergey Rogulenko for their insights.
We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the Gemini service team: Abhijit Karmarkar, Chip Baetu, Emmanuel Talopa, Evan Center, Federico LeBron, Girish Ramchandra Rao, Greg Anilak, Hamish Tomlinson, Hayden June, Jia Zhao, Joe Stanton, Ashi Sh Shenoy, Jonathan Kylepan, Juliet Love, Justin Mao-Jones, Kashyap Krishnakumar, Ken Franco, Mahesh Palekar, Ming Zhang, Nikhil Sethi, Rohan Jain, Rohit Varkey Sankachan, Sohail Hassas Yegane, Thomas Jimma, Vitor Rodriguez.
Additionally, we would like to thank the following for their support, cooperation and advice: Benoit Schillings, Ed Chi, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Noam Shazeer, James Manyika, Yossi Matias, Philipp Schindler, Pushmeet Kohli, Demis Hassabis, Sergey Brin, Melvin Johnson, Omer Levy, Timothy Lillicrap, Anca Dragan, Slav Petrov, Ya Su, Madhavi Sewak, Erica Gemser, Eugenie Ribbs, Erica Moreira, Tulsi Doshi, Alex Goldin, Jane Labanovsky, Andy Forbes, Sean Nakamoto, Lu Yifeng , Denny Chou, Alexander Novikov, Christy Haner, Itsuki Hanada, Harsh Dando, Ritu Guy, Hiroki Kayama, Jenny Risk Nichols, Jyochik, Song Zuo, Pratyusha Mukherjee, Shibo Wang, Carlos Geer, Xiaofang Zhang,…
Finally, we would like to thank Dr. Bill Poucher of ICPC Global for his support and recognition.
ICPC Global has confirmed that the solution we submitted has been completed and accepted. It is important to note that their review does not extend to validating the system, process, or underlying model.
