Science Tokyo team wins silver at 2025 ICPC Asia Pacific Championship
Bocchi The Tech, a team made up of three second-year Science Tokyo students, has won the silver medal at the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia Pacific Championship, held from February 27 to March 2, 2025, at the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Satoshi Yoshida, Takuto Ito, Asahi Kikuchi, and coach Tatsuhito Yamagata, all students in the Department of Mathematical and Computing Science, finished fifth overall, a result which earned them the silver medal. Japan Regional Contest Director Shin-ya Nishizaki, a professor at Science Tokyo’s Center for Information Infrastructure, was also present at the competition.
Other teams from Science Tokyo and Japan also performed well. The Institute’s Team AMATSUKAZE finished 9th while Team WADATSUMI finished in 33rd position out of 65 teams. Four of the top ten teams came from Japan.
This year, seven of the nine competing Science Tokyo students, and the Science Tokyo coach, came from the Department of Mathematical and Computing Science. Two students joined them from the Department of Mathematics. These 10 participants traveled with the support of the School of Computing and NS Solutions Corporation.
Based on the results of the 2025 ICPC Asia Pacific Championship, one team from each participating university — including Bocchi The Tech — has qualified for the 2025 ICPC World Finals, which will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from August 31 to September 4, 2025.
Team Bocchi The Tech members
Satoshi Yoshida, 2nd year, Mathematical and Computing Science
Takuto Ito, 2nd year, Mathematical and Computing Science
Asahi Kikuchi, 2nd year, Mathematical and Computing Science
Team coach
Tatsuhito Yamagata, 1st-year master’s student, Mathematical and Computing Science
International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)
The International Collegiate Programming Contest is a global programming contest in which more than 50,000 university students from 3,000 universities in 111 countries and regions participate each year. It is sponsored by the ICPC Foundation.
In the contest, three members from each university compete by solving a variety of problems, which can include anything from simple calculations to problems requiring a combination of multiple algorithms. Only one computer is available for each team, highlighting the importance of effective teamwork over individual programming skills. The team that solves the most problems in the fewest attempts in the least amount of time is the winner.
University teams first participate in national qualifying rounds and can advance to regional competitions based on their performance. In cases of Japanese teams, this means joining the Asian regional competition. Only the best teams in the regionals are selected to join the World Finals, which can only include one team from each university.
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Professor Shin-ya Nishizaki
Center for Information Infrastructure
Email nisizaki@comp.isct.ac.jp