USA AI Olympiad (USAAIO)

• Let us meet Team USA for the 2026 IOAI.

• 2026 USA-North America AI Olympiad Round 3 was successfully held at Harvard during June 08-12.
• Click here for the Press Release.

• The registration for the 2027 USA-NA-AIO competition is open now. It will be closed on January 31, 2027, 11:59pm EST.
• The 2027 Round 1 competition will be on February 19, 2027, 12pm-3pm 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 Harvard Admissions info 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)

• 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 of the 2026 USA-NA-AIO Round 2:

April 3 (Friday)

• Location: MIT Welcome Center Auditorium, 292 Main Street, Building E38, Cambridge, MA 02142
• 12:15pm-1pm: MIT Admissions info session
• 1pm-2pm: 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
• 8:30am-9am: Contestants registration and Day 1 morning check-in
• 9am-12pm:
  • Welcome remark
  • 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
• 1:30pm-2pm: Contestants Day 1 afternoon check-in
• 2pm-2:30pm: Day 1 pre-competition briefing
  • Problem types
  • Submission instruction
  • Academic integrity and cheating policy
  • Proctoring software instruction
  • Q&A
• 2:30pm-5:30pm: Day 1 competition

April 5 (Sunday)

• Location: MIT Building 10 Room 250, 222 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139
• 8am-8:30am: Contestants Day 2 check-in
• 8:30am-9am: Day 2 pre-competition briefing
• 9am-1pm: Day 2 competition
• 1:30-2:30pm: Concluding remark
  • History, present and future of AI Olympiads
  • Value of taking AI Olympiads
  • Review of Day 1 competition
  • Q&A

• We thank Google for giving each Round 2 participant 500 GPU compute units for free.

• 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
• 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 during February 23-27. These outstanding students brought home one Gold, one Silver 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
• You can read the Press Release by clicking here.

Team USA earned 3 Silver Medals, 3 Bronze Medals and 1 Honorable Mention in the 2025 IOAI held during August 02-09 in Beijing, China.

• 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
• You can read the Press Release by clicking here.

• Date: April 27, 2025
• Location: MIT (we will notify qualifiers the exact venue)
• Schedule
  • 8am - 8:40am: Check in.
  • 8:40am - 9am: Opening remark by MIT admissions.
  • 9am - 12:15pm: Contest.
  • 1:15pm - 4:30pm: Competition day events (open to all qualifiers and their parents).
    • USAAIO's info session.
    • Career panel by the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI).
    • MIT admissions' info session.
    • Concluding remark.
    • Social time.

• Number of participants: 393
• Number of Round 2 qualifiers: 76
• Percentage of contestants who qualify for Round 2: 19.3%
• Round 2 cutoff score: 53 out of 300
• Round 1 awards 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 USA for the 2024 International Artificial Intelligence Olympiad (IAIO) in Saudi Arabia (September 08 - 12, 2024).
• Congratulations to Ronok Ghosal and Kevin Peng for receiving BRONZE awards.
• You can read the Press Release by clicking here.

• Two teams represented USA for 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, Angelina Quan) for receiving GOLD awards and Team 2 (Shraman Kar, Ella Lan, Riya Tyagi, Grant Wang) for receiving BRONZE awards.
• You can read the Press Release by clicking here.