ACM-ICPC @ Rice

About

Rice University competes in the annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. We are located in the South Central USA region, consisting of Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.

Three students, one computer, five hours, and a bunch of problems. Solve as many as you can, as fast as you can. Students have approximately-weekly practice sessions in the fall to practice for the Regional contest. From there, top teams advance to the North American Championship. And from there, top teams advance to the World Finals.

To get involved, contact John Greiner.

Useful resources

 

Year Contest Teams Leaders
2023 North America Championship
Orlando
Rice Owls, 34th place, 5/13 problems:
Charlie (Ruofeng) Liu, Leonardo Paes, Marko Tanevski
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Ruofeng Liu
2022 SCUSA Regionals
Division I
Rice Owls, 11th place, 6/13 problems:
Charlie (Ruofeng) Liu, Leonardo Paes, Marko Tanevski

Rixner's a Rizzner, 16th place, 3/13 problems:
Hsiang-En Huang, Bruce Wang, Ada Ma
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Ruofeng Liu
2022 North America Championship
Orlando
Rice Owls, 46th place, 2/13 problems:
Charlie (Ruofeng) Liu, Ruijin Wang, Phuong Tran
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Ruofeng Liu
2021 SCUSA Regionals
Division I
Rice Owls, 3rd place, 9/11 problems:
Charlie (Ruofeng) Liu, Ruijin Wang, Phuong Tran

ICan'tThinkOfAny, 17th place, 4/11 problems:
Jane Mo, Janhvi Somaiya, Wisha Wanichwecharungruang

AQMeta, 34th place, 1/11 problems:
Abedelrahman Abouzeid, Quang Nguyen, Mahmoud Badawi
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Ruofeng Liu
2021 North American Championship
Orlando
Rice Owls, 35th place, 5/13 problems:
Phuong Tran, Charlie (Ruofeng) Liu, Chuck (Quihan) Wang
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Quihan Wang
2021 North America South Division Championship
online
Rice Owls, 10th place, 7/13 problems:
Phuong Tran, Charlie (Ruofeng) Liu, Chuck (Quihan) Wang
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Quihan Wang
2020 SCUSA Regionals Rice Owls, 8th place, 11/16 problems:
Phuong Tran, Charlie (Ruofeng) Liu, Chuck (Quihan) Wang

Eureka, 33rd place, 5/16 problems:
Ningzhi Xu, Ye Cao
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Quihan Wang
Year Contest Teams Leaders
2019 North America Championship
Atlanta
I see PC, 35th place, 4/10 problems:
Phuong Tran, Austin (Tianyi) Liu, Mark Saving
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Tianyi Liu
2019 SCUSA Regionals I see PC, 7th place, 8/12 problems:
Phuong Tran, Austin (Tianyi) Liu, Mark Saving

It's a Hoot!, 18th place, 5/12 problems:
Jos Malig-on, Shaquille Wyan Que, Nicholas Meisburger

Rice Owls, 25th place, 5/12 problems:
Joshua Engels, Ben Firullo, Pasan Sirithanachai

Rice Recursion, 34th place, 4/12 problems:
Yixuan Zhou, Boyuan Deng, Zhanyi Sun
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Tianyi Liu
2018 SCUSA Regionals Owls, 7th place, 9/12 problems:
Austin (Tianyi) Liu, Zirun Lin, Mark Saving

Rice Gray, 21st place, 5/12 problems:
Yixuan Zhou, Thomas Yuan, Joon Sun Hwang

Blue, 23rd place, 5/12 problems:
Jianan Jiang, Avery Whitaker, Seung Hun Jang
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizers: Tianyi Liu, Avery Whitaker
2017 North American Invitational
online
Rice Lalalalalalalalalala, 38th place, 1/11 problems:
Anh Tran, Madison Lewis, Avery Whitaker

Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Avery Whitaker
2017 SCUSA Regionals Rice Lalalalalalalalalala, 12th place, 6/11 problems:
Anh Tran, Madison Lewis, Avery Whitaker

Rice while(team), 13th place, 6/11 problems:
Tianyi Liu, Pedro Igor Oliveira, Zirun Lin

Rice Cowculating, 18th place, 6/11 problems:
Sinran Virk, Thomas Yuan, Patrick Brady

Rice Fondren ForAll, 24th place, 5/11 problems:
Namgun Kim, Hunter Tidwell, Jung Hee Ryun

Rice Irregular Expression, 45th place, 3/11 problems:
Xihao Liu, Edward Feng, Wei Dai
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Avery Whitaker
2016 SCUSA Regionals Rice Lalalalalalalalalalalala, 10th place, 7/11 problems:
Anh Tran, Madison Lewis, Avery Whitaker

Rice Mango, 19th place, 6/11 problems:
Siran Wang, Ziyun Wang, Chao Zhou

Rice Lucky Ks, 26th place, 5/11 problems:
Jung Hee Ryu, Namgun Kim, Gayeon Noh

Rice Fresh, 50th place, 2/11 problems:
Patrick Brady, Gabriel Vacaliuc, Arjoon Srikanth
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Avery Whitaker
2016 World Finals
Phuket
Rice Gray, 55th place of 128, 5/13 problems:
Jose Vera-Garza, Philip Taffet, Visit Pataranutaporn
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Jose Vera-Garza

Rice Engineering article
2015 SCUSA Regionals Rice Gray, 1st place, 7/9 problems:
Jose Vera-Garza, Philip Taffet, Visit Pataranutaporn

Rice Blue, 4th place, 6/9 problems:
Jenna Netland, Derek Peirce, Michael Peirce

Rice Hoot!, 22nd place, 4/9 problems:
Ziyue Liu, Ziyun Wang, Siran Wang

Rice Owls, 42nd place, 2/9 problems:
Anh Tran, Madison Lewis, Avery Whitaker
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizers: Derek Peirce, Jose Vera-Garza

Rice Engineering article
2015 World Finals
Marrakech
Rice Gray, 113th place of 128, 2/13 problems:
Jose Vera-Garza, Philip Taffet, Nick Merritt

Coach: John Greiner
Video interviews: How to Qualify for the World Finals, Coaches talk about how they train their teams

Funding sponsors: PROS Holdings, Anne Kennedy, Andrea Pound, Christopher Pound
2014 SCUSA Regionals Rice Gray, 1st place, 5/9 problems:
Jose Vera-Garza, Philip Taffet, Nick Merritt

Rice Blue, 8th place, 4/9 problems:
Derek Peirce, Michael Peirce, Jenna Netland

Rice Owls, 24th place, 2/9 problems:
Matthew Hammond, Belinda Liu, Rui (Ray) Zhang

Rice Hoot!, 26th place, 2/9 problems:
Xiaoyu Chen, Xingfan (Fanny) Huang, Yufeng Zhou

Team Fusion MMA, 36th place, 1/9 problems:
John Wyrough, Joseph Hwang, Nicholas Kwon
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Derek Peirce

Rice Engineering article
2013 SCUSA Regionals Rice Blue, 2nd place, 7/8 problems:
Jeff Arenson, Derek Peirce, Haihua Shen

Rice Owls, 11th place, 5/8 problems:
Yilun Zhang, Philip Taffet, Leo Du

Rice Gray, 42nd place, 3/8 problems:
Seth Lauer, Josiah Grace, Michael Peirce
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Jeff Arenson
Rice Engineering article
2012 SCUSA Regionals Rice Blue, 3rd place, 4/8 problems:
Ryan Dewey, Jeff Arenson, Haihua Shen

Rice Owls, 35th place, 1/8 problems:
Yansen Zhou, Derek Peirce, Nick McCleerey

Rice Gray, 40th place (tie), 0/8 problems:
Andrew Wu, Dhevi Rajendran, Bryan Wigianto
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Ryan Dewey
2011 SCUA Regionals Rice Blue, 3rd place, 4/8 problems:
Daniel Podder, Max Grossman, Ryan Dewey

Rice Gray, 9th place, 3/8 problems:
Weibo He, Haihua Shen, Yunming Zhang

Rice Owls, 32nd place, 1/8 problems:
Dhevi Rajendran, Bryan Wigianto, Andrew Wu

Rice Centennial, 37th place, 1/8 problems:
Jeff Arenson, Kalpit Dixit, Brian Tran

Rice Hoot!, 47th place (tie), 0/8 problems:
Waseem Ahmad, Jack Feser, SeyyedMajid Valiollahzadah
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Daniel Podder
2010 SCUSA Regionals Give a Hoot!, 4th place, 7/8 problems:
Ryan Dewey, Eric Lee, Olyver Yau

Rice Blue, 12th place, 5/8 problems:
Elizabeth Fudge, Max Grossman, Daniel Podder

Rice Owls, 36th place, 3/8 problems:
Weibo He, Yunming Zhang, Xiangjin Zou

*teamname, 40th place, 3/8 problems:
Kuldeep Meel, Pawel Mikolajczyk, Marcus Shen

Rice Gray, 48th place, 3/8 problems:
Dhevi Rajendran, Bryan Wigianto, Andrew Wu
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Daniel Podder
Year Competition Teams Leaders
2009 SCUSA Regionals Rice Blue, 3rd place, 5/8 problems:
Kestutis Cesnavicius, Nico Feltman, George Chen

Rice Gray, 30th place (tie), 0/8 problems:
Daniel Podder, Kevin Beale, Grant Cathcart

Rice Owls, 30th place (tie), 0/8 problems:
Jaewoo Jeon, James Morgensen, Ace Emil
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Kevin Beale
2008 SCUSA Regionals Rice Blue, 33rd place, 1/9 problems:
Andrew Altheimer, Taylor Goodhart, Derek Sessions

Rice Gray, 60th place (tie), 0/9 problems:
Rae Alty, Peter Hokanson, David Lax
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Derek Sessions
2007 SCUSA Regionals Rice Blue, 9th place, 4/9 problems:
Blake Kaplan, Gregory Malecha, Derek Sessions

Rice Gray, 28th place, 2/9 problems:
Grant Cathcart, Taylor Goodhart, Brian Shields
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Gregory Malecha
2006 SCUSA Regionals Rice Blue, 5th place: 6/8 problems:
Brad Dodson, Gregory Malecha, Daniel Weidman

Rice Gray, 28th place, 3/8 problems:
Taylor Goodhart, Jaewoo Jeon, Derek Sessions
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Gregory Malecha
2006 World Finals
San Antonio
Rice Blue, Honorable Mention, 1/6 problems:
Gregory Malecha, Ryan Prichard, Etienne Vouga
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Gregory Malecha
2005 SCUSA Regionals Rice Blue, 1st place, 7/8 problems:
Gregory Malecha, Ryan Prichard, Etienne Vouga

Rice Gray, 20th place, 2/8 problems:
Eric Cheng, Jaewoo Jeon, Derek Sessions
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Gregory Malecha
2004 SCUSA Regionals Rice Gray, 3rd place, 5/8 problems

Rice Blue, 6th place, 4/8 problems
Coaches: Ian Barland, John Greiner
Student organizer: Gina Upperman
2003 SCUSA Regionals Rice Blue, 5th place, 8/8 problems

Rice Gray, 14th place, 6/8 problems
Coach: John Greiner
Student organizer: Gina Upperman
2002 Did not participate.
2001 Did not participate.
2000 Did not participate.

The older history has been pieced together from the ACM website and our trophies and plaques. If you can provide any additional information, please contact John Greiner.

Year Competition Teams Leaders
1999 Did not participate.
1998 Regionals
(Rice)
33rd place, 1/7 problems: Kobo Mastas

35th place, 1/7 problems: Turing Machanics
1997 Regionals
(Rice)
?
1996 Regionals ?
1995/6 Regionals ?
World Finals
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Honorable Mention
1994 Regionals ?
1993/4 Regionals ?
World Finals
(Phoenix)
Participated
1992/3 Regionals ?
World Finals
(Indianapolis, Indiana)
7th place (tie)
1991/2 Regionals 1st place: Perry Cheng, Amit Patel, Shawn Smith Doug Moore
World Finals
(Kansas City, Missouri)
Perry Cheng, Amit Patel, Shawn Smith
1990 Regionals ?

The older history has been pieced together from the ACM website and our trophies and plaques. If you can provide any additional information, please contact John Greiner.

Year Competition Teams Leaders
1989 Regionals ?
1988/9 Regionals 1st place:
Matt Biggio, Preston Briggs, Jim Carson, John Greiner
Coach: Joe Warren
World Finals
(Louisville, Kentucky)
5th place:
Matt Biggio, Preston Briggs, Jim Carson, John Greiner
1987 Regionals 3rd place:
Matt Biggio, Lawrence Cowsar (misspelled as Cowser on plaque), Kenny Sheldon, Pat Shopbell

4th place:
Preston Briggs, John Greiner, Damon Hart, Robert Read
Coach: Joe Warren
1986 Regionals 2nd place:
Bill Aitken, John Carter, Jeff Erickson, Robert (Bob) Hearn
1985/6 Regionals 1st place:
Robert (Bob) Hearn, Chetan (Chet) Murthy, Jeff Erickson, John Carter

3rd place:
Ervan Darnell, Doug Monk, Blake Wilfong, Michael Wolverton
World Finals
(Cincinnati, Ohio)
3rd place:
Robert (Bob) Hearn, Chetan (Chet) Murthy, Jeff Erickson, John Carter
1984 Regionals ?
1983 Regionals 1st place: ?
1982/3 Regionals 2nd place: ?

3rd place: ?
World Finals
(Melbourne, Florida)
? place
Randy Allen, Michael Caplinger, Robert Warfield, Joe Warren
1981 Regionals ?
1980/1 Regionals 1st place:
David Capshaw, Scott Comer, Bob Hood, Thom Potempa
World Finals
(St. Louis, Missouri)
2nd place:
Scott Comer, Gordon Goetsch, David Johnson, Thom Potempa

The older history has been pieced together from the ACM website and our trophies and plaques. If you can provide any additional information, please contact John Greiner.

Year Competition Teams
1979 Regionals ?
1978 Regionals ?
1977 Regionals ?
1976 Regionals ?