USA AI Olympiad (USAAIO)

• Meet Team USA for the 2026 IOAI.

• 2026 USA-North America AI Olympiad Round 3 was successfully held at Harvard from June 08-12.
• Click here for the press release.

• Registration for the 2027 USA-NA-AIO competition is now open. It will close on January 31, 2027, at 11:59 p.m. EST.
• The 2027 Round 1 competition will take place on February 19, 2027, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST.
• USA-NA-AIO is the unique pathway for U.S. students to represent the U.S. at the following three international competitions:
  • IOAI
  • IAIO
  • IAI²O AIIC

• Dates:
  • June 08-12
• Location of team selection tests and lectures:
  • Jefferson Lab (Harvard Physics Department Building), 17 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138
• Location of the Harvard Admissions information session:
  • 5 James St., Cambridge, MA 02138
• Lodging:
  • Currier House - Gilbert Hall (Harvard Student Housing), 64 Linnaean St., Cambridge, MA 02138
• Dining:
  • Adams House Dining Hall (Harvard Dining House), 26 Pympton St., Cambridge, MA 02138
• Schedule:
  • Please see the table below (subject to change).

• The 2026 USA-NA-AIO Round 2 award ranking list can be found here.

• 2026 USA-North America AI Olympiad Round 2 was successfully held at Harvard and MIT on April 04-06.
• Click here for the press release.
• Contest problems and the design and rationale behind those problems can be found here.

Below is the schedule for the 2026 USA-NA-AIO Round 2:

April 3 (Friday)

• Location: MIT Welcome Center Auditorium, 292 Main Street, Building E38, Cambridge, MA 02142
• 12:15 p.m.-1:00 p.m.: MIT Admissions information session
• 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.: MIT campus tour

April 4 (Saturday)

• Location: Harvard University Boston Campus, Tosteson Medical Education Center (TMEC) 246 Walter Amphitheater, 260 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115
• 8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Contestant registration and Day 1 morning check-in
• 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.:
  • Welcome remarks
  • Plenary talk 1 by Prof. Haribabu Arthanari from Harvard University
  • Plenary talk 2 by Prof. Michael Brenner from Harvard University and Google
  • Plenary talk 3 by Mr. Junlin Jiang from Pathway
• 1:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.: Contestant Day 1 afternoon check-in
• 2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: Day 1 pre-competition briefing
  • Problem types
  • Submission instructions
  • Academic integrity and cheating policy
  • Proctoring software instructions
  • Q&A
• 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.: Day 1 competition

April 5 (Sunday)

• Location: MIT Building 10, Room 250, 222 Memorial Dr., Cambridge, MA 02139
• 8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m.: Contestant Day 2 check-in
• 8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Day 2 pre-competition briefing
• 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.: Day 2 competition
• 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: Concluding remarks
  • History, present, and future of AI Olympiads
  • Value of participating in AI Olympiads
  • Review of the Day 1 competition
  • Q&A

• We thank Google for providing each Round 2 participant with 500 GPU compute units at no cost.

• 2026 USA-NA-AIO Round 2 schedule
  • Dates: April 4 and 5 (two days).
  • Locations: Harvard and MIT (two locations).
• Round 2 cutoff score
  • 98 out of 300
• Round 1 award cutoff scores
  • Distinguished Honor Roll: 201 out of 300
  • High Honor Roll: 146 out of 300
  • Honor Roll: 98 out of 300
• The Round 1 award ranking list can be found here.

Congratulations to Team USA on their strong performance at the 2026 International AI Olympiad (IAIO) in Ljubljana, Slovenia from February 23-27. These outstanding students brought home one gold medal, one silver medal, and two honorable mentions.

• Gold Medal
  • Dale Liu, Junior, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA
• Silver Medal
  • Peter Xiao, Senior, Montgomery High School, Silver Spring, MD
• Honorable Mentions
  • Aaditya Bilakanti, Sophomore, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
  • Jerry Yu, Senior, Piedmont High School, Piedmont, CA
• Read the press release here.

Team USA earned three silver medals, three bronze medals, and one honorable mention at the 2025 IOAI, held in Beijing, China, from August 02-09.

• The Silver Medal winners are:
  • Pranav Sambhu, Rising Senior, Fulton Science Academy, Alpharetta, GA
  • Lily Shi, Rising Senior, The Harker School, San Jose, CA
  • William Wang, Rising Senior, Lynbrook High School, San Jose, CA
• The Bronze Medal winners are:
  • Mahith Gottipati, Rising Senior, Dulles High School Math and Science Academy, Sugar Land, TX
  • Sanghyeon (Robert) Joo, Rising Senior, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
  • Bryan Zhu, Rising Senior, Bellevue High School, Bellevue, WA
• The Honorable Mention winner is:
  • Sophia Hou, Rising Senior, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, VA
• Read the press release here.

• Date: April 27, 2025
• Location: MIT (qualifiers will be notified of the exact venue)
• Schedule
  • 8:00 a.m.-8:40 a.m.: Check-in.
  • 8:40 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Opening remarks by MIT Admissions.
  • 9:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Contest.
  • 1:15 p.m.-4:30 p.m.: Competition-day events (open to all qualifiers and their parents).
    • USAAIO information session.
    • Career panel by the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI).
    • MIT Admissions information session.
    • Concluding remarks.
    • Social time.

• Number of participants: 393
• Number of Round 2 qualifiers: 76
• Percentage of contestants who qualified for Round 2: 19.3%
• Round 2 cutoff score: 53 out of 300
• Round 1 award cutoff scores:
  • Distinguished Honor Roll: 217 out of 300
  • High Honor Roll: 153 out of 300
  • Honor Roll: 72 out of 300

• One team represented the United States at the 2024 International Artificial Intelligence Olympiad (IAIO) in Saudi Arabia (September 08-12, 2024).
• Congratulations to Ronok Ghosal and Kevin Peng for earning bronze awards.
• Read the press release here.

• Two teams represented the United States at the 2024 International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI) in Bulgaria (August 09-15, 2024).
• Congratulations to Team 1 (Sarang Goel, Christina Luoluo Lee, Videet Mehta, and Angelina Quan) for earning gold awards and Team 2 (Shraman Kar, Ella Lan, Riya Tyagi, and Grant Wang) for earning bronze awards.
• Read the press release here.