The University of Bucharest congratulates its pupils and professors, members of the national olympic teams who obtained remarkable results at the International Artificial Intelligence Olympiad (IAIO) in Riad, the capital of Saudi Arabia: three medals and an honourable mention.
The Romanian team was coordinated by assistant Miruna Zăvelcă, PhD, teaching staff of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bucharest, as team leader, and by professor Daniel Popa from the Aurel Vlaicu Theoretical High School in Orăștie, Hunedoara County, as deputy leader. Chris Luntraru, professor at the Tudor Vianu National Computer Science College and doctoral student at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers within the Politehnica University also participated as an observer. The three coordinators accompanied the Olympian teams.
Romania’s team was selected by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bucharest. Moreover, several teaching staff members of the faculty were involved in preparing the Olympians. More details are available here.
IAIO, which took place between September 8th – 12th 2024 in Riad, challenged pupils at individual level and brought together 90 participants from 25 countries.
Within the competition, contestants had to take part in two trials: one theoretical and one practical.
Winners of the IAIO 2024 are:
Andrei Lețu, pupil at Unirea National College in Focșani, Vrancea county, obtained a gold medal
Tudor Ștefan Mușat, pupil at the Tudor Vianu Computer Science National College in Bucharest, obtained a silver medal
Alexandru-Bogdan Miron, pupil at the Emil Racoviță National College in Cluj-Napoca, obtained a bronze medal
Tudor Morariu, pupil at the Emil Racoviță National College in Cluj-Napoca, received a honorary mention
The event had the support of UNESCO, ACM Slovenia and His Royal Highness The Prince of Saudi Arabia, and the award ceremony was organized as part of the Global Artificial Intelligence Summit GAIN, which reunites numerous experts in the field.
The coordinators also organized several free-of-charge webinars. These can be accessed both on the competition page, as well as on the webpage dedicated to the Romanian team.
More information about the 2024 edition of the International Artificial Intelligence Olympiad – IAIO are available on the competition website. The award ceremony is available for watching here.
The Olympiad in Saudi Arabia was at its first edition and is different from the one – also at its first edition – from Bulgaria, International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence – IOAI, organized between August 9th – 15th 2024, where Romanian pupils obtained two bronze and one silver medal as teams. The results are available here.




