From November 4 to November 5, 2017, the 42nd ACM-ICPC (Qingdao Station) was successfully held at China University of Petroleum (East China). The competition brought together 365 teams from 225 universities and 1 secondary school in mainland China, Hong Kong, China and North Korea. After five hours of fierce competition, the "Pengcheng South" team composed of undergraduates Huang Bo, He Qiyang and Zhu Honglin from SUSTech won the bronze medal under the guidance of Assistant Professor Tang Bo from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

From left to right: Huang Bo students (CSE junior), He Qiyang students (sophomore), Zhu Honglin students (sophomore), instructor Prof. Tang Bo

The 365 teams participating in the ACM-ICPC Asian Regional Contest (Qingdao) include Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University, Hong Kong University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fudan University, etc. "Pengcheng South" was formed in September 2017. The instructor is Tang Bo, an assistant professor of the Department of CSE.

The ACM-ICPC, hosted by the American Computer Society, has hosted 41 competitions so far. The ACM-ICPC is the world's largest and highest level computer game with the longest history and the deepest impact in the world. Each year the competition attracts the best students from the most famous universities in the world to participate. It fully demonstrates the ability of college students to discover, analyze and solve problems and has become a university student programming competition jointly recognized by academia and industry.