A team of four computer science students from Carnegie
Mellon University Qatar (CMU-Q) received top honors at Harvard University’s CS50x
Coding Contest.
The CMU-Q team, comprised of Julian Sam, Mohammed Khan,
Mohammed Qusai and Abubaker Omer, was one of 12 teams that ranked first
during the competition.
Ten problems were designed by scholars from Yale, MIT and
the host school, Harvard. The CS50x Coding Contest is recognized globally as
the “epic weekend of code,” in which participants have 72 hours to successfully handle the 10 problems.
“I tribute this success to the amazing experience that
enriched us in our first year in CMU-Q — and, hopefully, this is the first of
many to come,” Omer said.
Each student on the CMU-Q team has completed one school year
at the university. The team competed amongst 658 other teams from 89 countries.
“CMU-Q has a tradition of competing with tenacity and
ingenuity in international contests,” Ilker Baybars, dean and CEO of CMU-Q, said.
“Congratulations to each member of the winning team; I know we will continue to
see great things from them.”
