IIIT Hyderabad's Sushil Raaja Umasudhan Wins Silver at IOI 2024, Ranks Among World’s Best

IIITH's Sushil Raaja won silver at International Olympiad in Informatics 2024, marking his third international medal. He has ranked second in India and among the world’s top 15%.

The International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad's Sushil Raaja Umasudhan won a silver medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2024 in Alexandria, marking his third international achievement. He has been ranked second in India and among the top 15% of global competitors. The IOI, a competition for school-level algorithmic problem-solving, gathered 350 of the brightest young minds from 96 countries this year.

Earning the silver medal at Alexandria puts Sushil in the top 15% of the world’s best competitors. He and his team previously won bronze at Hungary’s IOI-2023 and secured gold in this year’s Asia Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO-2024), an online competition hosted by China with participants from 35 Asia Pacific countries.

Preparation for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)

He began his Olympiad preparation from class 10th. “It was just a random thing that I found I could do, during the pandemic lockdowns”, says the youngster who has invested over 10 hours every day for the last four years, honing his skills in international programming competitions online.  

He also added, "I have always been more inclined towards algorithms. Writing efficient code is what I specialize in and I enjoy doing it. In the Olympiad, three problems that require some kind of special algorithm or data structure are presented, to be solved in five hours. While the problem statements are in a fictional setting, the story line blends into the real world, with nuanced research-focused topics."

Olympiad Admission Channel into IIIT Hyderabad

The first-year B.Tech computer science engineering student at IIITH, Sushil explains, “I actually made it into IIITH through the Olympiad category. There are multiple categories of admission and since I represented the country, I was able to get my choice of B.Tech CSE. I was always among the top of my class but I was in a huge dilemma in the 10th and 11th grade because I either had to pick Olympiad practice or prepare for JEE. It was a very difficult choice to make. I would wrap up my school work and spent all my time in preparing for the Olympiad, which was my main focus”.

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