Meet Indian genius, son of IIT-JEE topper, who won gold at world’s toughest contest (Image: X@deedydas)
At the recently wrapped International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) held in Japan, the India-origin teen Agastya Goel won his second gold medal. Agastya is the son of Stanford professor Ashish Goel. Since IOI is considered the toughest competition for high school students in the world, Agastya secured the fourth overall rank in the contest.
He won the gold medal at the programming contest with a score of 438.97 out of 600. china’s Kangyang Zhou positioned as first with a stupefying score of 600 out of 600. Another Indian origin Kshiti Sodani was placed at 21st rank and a total of 34 students bagged the gold at the IOI in Japan.
Since Agastya won his second medal at the contest, social has been deluged with applause that the users compare him with his well-educated father. Users said that his father Ashish Goel was number 1 in the IIT exam in the 1990 batch and is currently a PhD and CS algo professor at Stanford University. A user stated on the x platform “Like Father, Like Son.”
Agastya Goel just got his 2nd IOI Gold medal for the US, the hardest programming contest for high schoolers in the world. He was #4 overall.
His father Ashish Goel was #1 of ~1M in the IIT exam 1990 in India and a PhD and CS algo professor at Stanford!
Like father, like son. pic.twitter.com/pKM8YuYzDw
— Deedy (@deedydas) September 9, 2024
Agastya’s father Ashish hailing from Utter Pradesh is an IIT graduate in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur in 1994 and he also owns a PhD from Stanford before he joined as a professor of Management Science and Engineering in America. In the early days of X, when it was ‘Twitter’ he worked at the platform and had been credited for his excellence and also for designing its monetisation model.
What is IOI?
The International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) is the toughest contest in the world which is conducted annually and considered as one of the five International Science Olympiads. UNESCO laid its foundation started in May 1989. The competition is scheduled for two days in which students are presented with the problems and asked to show their coding skills and problem-solving nature in programming algorithms.
