USA AI Olympiad

Meet Team USA for the 2027 IAIO

The following students will represent the United States at the 2027 International AI Olympiad (IAIO), which will be held in Vietnam from February 25 to March 2, 2027.

• Hitaishi Chillara — Senior, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS), University of North Texas, Denton, TX
• Joey Guo — Sophomore, The Nueva School, San Mateo, CA
• Shengdao Ke — Senior, Phillips Academy Andover, Andover, MA
• Tristan Sun — Senior, Highland Park High School, Dallas, TX

Let's meet them here.

Congratulations to Team USA on their strong performance at the 2026 International Olympiad in AI (IOAI) in Astana, Kazakhstan from August 02-08. These outstanding students brought home two gold medals, three silver medals, and three bronze medals.

• Gold Medals
  • Feodor Yevtushenko, Rising Freshman at MIT, University High School, Irvine, CA
  • Jerry Zhang, Rising Senior, South Pasadena High School, South Pasadena, CA
• Silver Medals
  • Dale Liu, Rising Senior, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA
  • Kaden Wu, Rising Junior, Canyon Crest Academy, San Diego, CA
  • Bryan Zhu, Rising Freshman at MIT, Bellevue Senior High School, Bellevue, WA
• Bronze Medals
  • Zooey Lan, Rising Sophomore, The Harker School, San Jose, CA
  • Santosh Patapati, Rising Senior, Panther Creek High School, Frisco, TX
  • Andy Zhang, Rising Senior, Basis Independent Fremont, Fremont, CA
• Read the press release here.

• 2026 USA-North America AI Olympiad Round 3 was successfully held at Harvard from June 08-12.
• Click here for the press release.

• Registration for the 2027 USA-NA-AIO competition is now open. It will close on January 31, 2027, at 11:59 p.m. EST.
• The 2027 Round 1 competition will take place on February 19, 2027, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST.
• USA-NA-AIO is the unique pathway for U.S. students to represent the U.S. at the following three international competitions:
  • IOAI
  • IAIO
  • IAI²O AIIC

• Dates:
  • June 08-12
• Location of team selection tests and lectures:
  • Jefferson Lab (Harvard Physics Department Building), 17 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
• Location of the Harvard Admissions information session:
  • 5 James St., Cambridge, MA 02138
• Lodging:
  • Currier House - Gilbert Hall (Harvard Student Housing), 64 Linnaean St., Cambridge, MA 02138
• Dining:
  • Adams House Dining Hall (Harvard Dining House), 26 Pympton St., Cambridge, MA 02138
• Schedule:
  • Please see the table below (subject to change).

• The 2026 USA-NA-AIO Round 2 award ranking list can be found here.

• 2026 USA-North America AI Olympiad Round 2 was successfully held at Harvard and MIT on April 04-06.
• Click here for the press release.
• Contest problems and the design and rationale behind those problems can be found here.

Below is the schedule for the 2026 USA-NA-AIO Round 2:

April 3 (Friday)

• Location: MIT Welcome Center Auditorium, 292 Main Street, Building E38, Cambridge, MA 02142
• 12:15 p.m.-1:00 p.m.: MIT Admissions information session
• 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.: MIT campus tour

April 4 (Saturday)

• Location: Harvard University Boston Campus, Tosteson Medical Education Center (TMEC) 246 Walter Amphitheater, 260 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115
• 8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Contestant registration and Day 1 morning check-in
• 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.:
  • Welcome remarks
  • Plenary talk 1 by Prof. Haribabu Arthanari from Harvard University
  • Plenary talk 2 by Prof. Michael Brenner from Harvard University and Google
  • Plenary talk 3 by Mr. Junlin Jiang from Pathway
• 1:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.: Contestant Day 1 afternoon check-in
• 2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: Day 1 pre-competition briefing
  • Problem types
  • Submission instructions
  • Academic integrity and cheating policy
  • Proctoring software instructions
  • Q&A
• 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.: Day 1 competition

April 5 (Sunday)

• Location: MIT Building 10, Room 250, 222 Memorial Dr., Cambridge, MA 02139
• 8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m.: Contestant Day 2 check-in
• 8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Day 2 pre-competition briefing
• 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.: Day 2 competition
• 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: Concluding remarks
  • History, present, and future of AI Olympiads
  • Value of participating in AI Olympiads
  • Review of the Day 1 competition
  • Q&A

• We thank Google for providing each Round 2 participant with 500 GPU compute units at no cost.

• 2026 USA-NA-AIO Round 2 schedule
  • Dates: April 4 and 5 (two days).
  • Locations: Harvard and MIT (two locations).
• Round 2 cutoff score
  • 98 out of 300
• Round 1 award cutoff scores
  • Distinguished Honor Roll: 201 out of 300
  • High Honor Roll: 146 out of 300
  • Honor Roll: 98 out of 300
• The Round 1 award ranking list can be found here.

Congratulations to Team USA on their strong performance at the 2026 International AI Olympiad (IAIO) in Ljubljana, Slovenia from February 23-27. These outstanding students brought home one gold medal, one silver medal, and two honorable mentions.

• Gold Medal
  • Dale Liu, Junior, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA
• Silver Medal
  • Peter Xiao, Senior, Montgomery High School, Silver Spring, MD
• Honorable Mentions
  • Aaditya Bilakanti, Sophomore, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
  • Jerry Yu, Senior, Piedmont High School, Piedmont, CA
• Read the press release here.

Team USA earned three silver medals, three bronze medals, and one honorable mention at the 2025 IOAI, held in Beijing, China, from August 02-09.

• The Silver Medal winners are:
  • Pranav Sambhu, Rising Senior, Fulton Science Academy, Alpharetta, GA
  • Lily Shi, Rising Senior, The Harker School, San Jose, CA
  • William Wang, Rising Senior, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA
• The Bronze Medal winners are:
  • Mahith Gottipati, Rising Senior, Dulles High School Math and Science Academy, Sugar Land, TX
  • Sanghyeon (Robert) Joo, Rising Senior, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
  • Bryan Zhu, Rising Senior, Bellevue High School, Bellevue, WA
• The Honorable Mention winner is:
  • Sophia Hou, Rising Senior, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA
• Read the press release here.

• Date: April 27, 2025
• Location: MIT (qualifiers will be notified of the exact venue)
• Schedule
  • 8:00 a.m.-8:40 a.m.: Check-in.
  • 8:40 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Opening remarks by MIT Admissions.
  • 9:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Contest.
  • 1:15 p.m.-4:30 p.m.: Competition-day events (open to all qualifiers and their parents).
    • USAAIO information session.
    • Career panel by the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI).
    • MIT Admissions information session.
    • Concluding remarks.
    • Social time.

• Number of participants: 393
• Number of Round 2 qualifiers: 76
• Percentage of contestants who qualified for Round 2: 19.3%
• Round 2 cutoff score: 53 out of 300
• Round 1 award cutoff scores:
  • Distinguished Honor Roll: 217 out of 300
  • High Honor Roll: 153 out of 300
  • Honor Roll: 72 out of 300

• One team represented the United States at the 2024 International Artificial Intelligence Olympiad (IAIO) in Saudi Arabia (September 08-12, 2024).
• Congratulations to Ronok Ghosal and Kevin Peng for earning bronze awards.
• Read the press release here.

• Two teams represented the United States at the 2024 International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI) in Bulgaria (August 09-15, 2024).
• Congratulations to Team 1 (Sarang Goel, Christina Luoluo Lee, Videet Mehta, and Angelina Quan) for earning gold awards and Team 2 (Shraman Kar, Ella Lan, Riya Tyagi, and Grant Wang) for earning bronze awards.
• Read the press release here.