Andrew He (born 1997) is an American competitive programmer and the winner of the 2021

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Background

He was born in 1997. Starting from sixth grade, he participated in various mathematics competitions such as the

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, the

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, the

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and

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. In many of them, he placed in the top 20 overall. He attended the Math Olympiad Program. He attended

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from 2011 to 2015. During his time there, he started competitive programming in 2012. He won two gold medals at the

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in 2014 and 2015. He attended

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, where he graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Math and

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. He was part of the MIT team which participated in the

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that won a silver medal in 2016, coming sixth place overall, and then a gold medal in 2019, coming second place overall. He has achieved significant success in competitive programming, where he won the 2021 Facebook Hacker Cup. Other accomplishments include winning the 2017 Distributed Code Jam, achieving third place in the Facebook Hacker Cup in 2018 and 2020, achieving third place in the

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in 2019 and 2020 and being runner-up in the 2020

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contest. He has worked as an intern for Addepar,

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, and Cruise. Since July 2019, he has been working as a software engineer at Impira, a machine learning and artificial intelligence software company.

Achievements

Competitive programming

A more comprehensive list of achievements can be found at the Competitive Programming Hall Of Fame website. *

: 2 Gold (2014 and 2015) (Third place overall in 2015) *

(Representing MIT): 1 Gold (2019) (Second place overall) and 1 Silver (2016) (Sixth place overall) *

: Champion (2021), Third place (2018 and 2020) *

: Third place (2019 and 2020) * Distributed Code Jam: Champion (2017) *

Algorithm: Second place (2020), Third place (2022) * TopCoder Open Marathon: Champion (2015), Second place (2013) *

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: Legendary Grandmaster (peak rating 3668)

Mathematics

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(Representing California): Team champion (2011) *

: Winner (2013) * Romanian Master of Mathematics and Sciences: Silver (12th place overall) *

: Champion (2015) *

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: 2016 (Top 25), 2017 (Top 15), 2018 (Honorable mention)

Publications

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References

External links

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