AoPS Wiki:AoPS Community Awards

This AoPS Community Awards page is a celebration of the accomplishments of members of the AoPS community.

IMO Participants and Medalists

This is a list of members of the AoPS community who have competed for their country at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Participants

• Shyam Narayanan (2015)
• Prafulla Susil Dhariwal(2011,2012)
• Akashnil Dutta(2009,2010,2011)
• Krishanu Roy Sankar (2008)
• Zachary Abel (2006) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Marco Avila (2006)
• John Berman (2009)
• Zarathustra Brady (2006)
• Robert Cordwell (2005)
• Wenyu Cao (2009, 2011)
• Sherry Gong (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007)
• Elyot Grant (2005)
• Darij Grinberg (2006)
• Mahbubul Hasan (2005)
• Daniel Kane (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Kiran Kedlaya (1990, 1991, 1992) (Art of Problem Solving Foundation board member)
• Viktoriya Krakovna (2006)
• Nate Ince (2004) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Brian Lawrence (2005, 2007) (WOOT instructor)
• Thomas Mildorf (2005) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Alison Miller (2004) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Richard Peng (2005, 2006)
• Eric Price (2005)
• David Rhee (2004, 2005, 2006)
• Peng Shi (2004, 2005, 2006)
• Arne Smeets (2003, 2004)
• Bobby Shen (2012, 2013)
• Arnav Tripathy (2006, 2007)
• Naoki Sato (AoPS instructor)
• Yi Sun (2006)
• Valentin Vornicu (AoPS/MathLinks webmaster)
• Victor Wang (2013)
• Melanie Wood (1998, 1999) (WOOT instructor)
• Alex Zhai (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
• Yufei Zhao (2004, 2005, 2006)
• Tigran Sloyan(2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
• Marco Avila (2006)
• Vipul Naik (2003,2004)
• Bhargav Narayanan (2007)
• Tigran Hakobyan (2007)
• Carmela Lao (2009, 2010)
• Calvin Deng (2010, 2012, 2013)
• Allen Yuan (2010)
• In-sung Na (2010)
• Xiaoyu He (2010, 2011)
• Kevin Sun (2013)

Perfect Scorers

• Le Hung Viet Bao (2003)
• Brian Lawrence (2005)
• Alex Zhai (2008)
• Jeck Lim (2012)
• Alex Song (2015)
• Allen Liu (2016)
• Yuan Yao (2016)
• Junghun Ju (2016)
• James Lin (2018)
• Agnijo Banerjee (2018)
• Daniel Zhu (2019)
• Colin Tang (2019)

Gold medalists

• Shyam Narayanan (2015)
• Akashnil Dutta(2011)
• Zarathustra Brady (2006)
• Kevin Sun (2014, 2015, 2016)
• Robert Cordwell (2005)
• Darij Grinberg (2006)
• Kiran Kedlaya (1990, 1992) (Art of Problem Solving Foundation board member)
• Brian Lawrence (2005) (WOOT instructor)
• Thomas Mildorf (2005) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Mark Sellke (2013, 2014)
• Alison Miller (2004) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Arnav Tripathy (2006)
• Eric Price (2005)
• Yufei Zhao (2005)
• Alex Zhai (2007, 2008)
• Sherry Gong (2007)
• Krishanu Sankar (2008)
• John Berman (2009)
• Xiaoyu He (2010, 2011)
• Wenyu Cao (2011)
• Prafulla Susil Dhariwal (2012)
• Bobby Shen (2012, 2013)
• James Tao (2013, 2014)
• Victor Wang (2013)
• Alex Song (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
• Allen Liu (2014, 2015, 2016)
• Junghun Ju (2015, 2016)
• Ryan Alweiss (2015)
• Evan Chen (2014)

Silver medalists

• Akashnil Dutta (2009,2010)
• Zachary Abel (2006) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Sherry Gong (2004, 2005)
• Nate Ince (2004) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Kiran Kedlaya (1991) (Art of Problem Solving Foundation board member)
• Viktoriya Krakovna (2006)
• Hyun Soo Kim (2005) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Richard Peng (2005)
• David Rhee (2006)
• Naoki Sato (AoPS instructor)
• Peng Shi (2006)
• Arne Smeets (2004)
• Yi Sun (2006)
• Sam Vandervelde (1989) (WOOT instructor)
• Melanie Wood (1998, 1999) (WOOT instructor)
• Alex Zhai (2006)
• Yufei Zhao (2006)
• Tigran Sloyan (2006,2007)
• Vipul Naik (2003,2004)
• Delong Meng (2009)
• Qinxuan Pan (2009)
• Wenyu Cao (2009)
• Carmela Lao (2010)
• Jafar Jafarov (2006)
• Ali Gurel (1996)
• Micheal Kural (2015)

Bronze medalists

• Debdyuti Banerjee (2011)
• Sherry Gong (2003)
• Elyot Grant (2005)
• Richard Peng (2006)
• Naoki Sato (AoPS instructor)
• Valentin Vornicu (AoPS/MathLinks webmaster)
• Yufei Zhao (2004)
• Tigran Sloyan(2004;2005)
• Tigran Hakobyan (2007)
• Carmela Lao (2009)
• Jafar Jafarov (2007)
• Kevin Sun (2013)

IPhO Participants and Medalists

This is a list of members of the AoPS community who have competed for their country at the International Physics Olympiad.

Participants

• Sherry Gong (2006)
• Yi Sun (2004)
• Arnav Tripathy (2006)
• Marianna Mao (2009)
• Anand Natarajan (2009)
• Bowei Liu (2009)
• Daniel Li (2010)

Gold Medalists

• Yi Sun (2004)
• Rahul Singh (2007)
• Marianna Mao (2009)
• Anand Natarajan (2009)
• Bowei Liu (2009)
• Daniel Li(2010)
• Eric Schneider
• Kevin Zhou
• Micheal Kural (2016)

Silver Medalists

• Sherry Gong (2006)

IOI Medalists

This list is of AoPSers who have won medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics.

Gold Medalists

• David Benjamin (2008)
• Brian Hamrick (2009)
• Neal Wu (2008, 2009, 2010)
• Wenyu Cao (2010)
• Scott Wu (2012, 2013, 2014)

Silver Medalists

• Akashnil Dutta(2011)
• Brian Hamrick (2008)
• Jacob Steinhardt (2008)
• Wenyu Cao (2009)
• Travis Hance (2009)

Bronze Medalists

• David Benjamin (2007)

USAMO

The following AoPSers have won the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO). (Note that the definition of "winner" has changed over the years -- currently it is the top 12 scores on the USAMO, but in the past it has been the top 6 or top 8 scores.)

Perfect Scorers

• Daniel Kane (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Kiran Kedlaya (1991) (Art of Problem Solving Foundation board member)
• Brian Lawrence (2006) (WOOT instructor)
• Alex Zhu (2012)
• Mitchell Lee (2012)
• Bobby Shen (2012)
• Allen Liu (2015, 2016)
• Luke Robitaille (2019)

Winners

• Yakov Berchenko-Kogan (2006)
• Wenyu Cao (2009)
• Calvin Deng (2009, 2012, 2013)
• Sherry Gong (2006, 2007)
• Yi Han (2006)
• Adam Hesterberg (2007)
• Daniel Kane (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Kiran Kedlaya (1990, 1991, 1992) (Art of Problem Solving Foundation board member)
• Brian Lawrence (2005, 2006, 2007) (WOOT instructor)
• Tedrick Leung (2006, 2007)
• Haitao Mao (2007)
• Richard Mccutchen (2006)
• Shyam Narayanan (2015)
• Albert Ni (2005)
• David Patrick (1988) (AoPS instructor)
• David Rolnick (2008) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Richard Rusczyk (1989) (AoPS founder)
• Krishanu Sankar (2007,2008)
• Bobby Shen (2013)
• Peng Shi (2006)
• Jacob Steinhardt (2007)
• Yi Sun (2006)
• Arnav Tripathy (2006, 2007)
• Victor Wang (2012, 2013)
• Sam Vandervelde (1987, 1989) (WOOT instructor)
• Melanie Wood (1998, 1999) (WOOT instructor)
• David Yang (2009,2011,2012)
• Alex Zhai (2006, 2007,2008)
• Yufei Zhao (2006)
• David Bay Rush (2009)
• Alex Song (2012,2013,2014,2015)
• Evan Chen (2014)
• James Tao (2014)
• Scott Wu (2014)
• Allen Liu (2014,2015,2016)
• Ankan Bhattacharya (2016)
• Yuan Yao (2016)
• Micheal Kural (2015,2016)
• Vincent Huang (2019)
• Daniel Zhu (2019)
• Colin Tang (2019)
• Edward Wan (2018,2019)
• Vincent Bian (2019)
• Guanpeng Xu (2018,2019)

Putnam Fellows

The top 5 students (including ties) on the collegiate William Lowell Putnam Competition are named Putnam Fellows.

• David Ash (1981, 1982, 1983)
• Matthew Ince (2005) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Daniel Kane (2003, 2004, 2005) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Kiran Kedlaya (1994, 1995, 1996) (AoPS Foundation board member)
• Brian Lawrence (2007, 2008, 2010, 2011)
• Mitchell Lee (2012, 2013)
• Evan O'Dorney (2011, 2012, 2013)
• Alexander Schwartz (2000, 2002)
• Mark Sellke (2014)
• Bobby Shen (2013, 2014)
• Jan Siwanowicz (2001)
• Arnav Tripathy (2008)
• Melanie Wood (2002) (WOOT instructor)
• David Yang (2013, 2014, 2015)
• Shyam Narayanan (2018)

Siemens Competition Winners

The annual Siemens Competition (formerly Siemens-Westinghouse) is a scientific research competition.

• Michael Viscardi (1st Individual, 2005)
• Lucia Mocz (2nd Team, 2006)
• Franklyn Wang (2nd Individual, 2017)

Intel STS Finalists

The annual Intel Science Talent Search is a science competition seeking to find and reward the most scientifically accomplished seniors.

• Allen Liu (2016)
• Jonathan Li (2011)
• Evan O'Dorney (2011)
• Philip Mocz (2008)
• Yihe Dong (2008)
• Qiaochu Yuan (2008)
• Greg Brockman (2007)
• Vincent Huang (2019)

Clay Junior Fellows

Each year since 2003, the Clay Mathematics Institute has selected 12 Junior Fellows.

• Thomas Belulovich (2005) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Atoshi Chowdhury (2003) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Robert Cordwell (2005)
• Eve Drucker (2003) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Matthew Ince (2004) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Nate Ince (2004) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Hyun Soo Kim (2005) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Raju Krishnamoorthy (2005)
• Alison Miller (2003) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Brian Rice (2003) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Dmitry Taubinski (2005) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Ameya Velingker (2005)

Perfect AIME Scores

Very few students have ever achieved a perfect score on the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME)

• Matthew Babbitt (2013)
• David Benjamin (2006)
• Mathew Crawford (1992) (AoPS instructor)
• Lewis Chen (2014)
• Calvin Deng (2011)
• Sam Elder (2008)
• Sandor Lehoczky (1990) (AoPS author)
• Tedrick Leung (2006)
• Andrew Lin (2017)
• Tony Liu (2006)
• Haitao Mao (2008)
• Shyam Narayanan (2012, 2014)
• Vinayak Kumar (2016)
• Bobby Shen (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
• Richard Rusczyk (1989) (AoPS founder)
• Sam Vandervelde (1988) (WOOT instructor)
• Alexander Whatley (2012)
• Scott Wu (2012)
• Joshua Lee (2017)
• Luke Robitaille (2015, 2017, 2019)
• Edward Wan (2018, 2019)
• Adam Ardeishar (2019)
• Kevin Liu (2018)
• Swapnil Garg (2017)
• Brian Liu (2017)

Perfect AMC Scores

Perfect AMC 12 Scores

The AMC 12 is a challenging examination for students in grades 12 and below administered by the American Mathematics Competitions.

• Zachary Abel (2005) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• David Benjamin (2006)
• Wenyu Cao (2009)
• Lewis Chen (2014)
• Sam Elder (2008)
• Ruozhou (Joe) Jia (2003) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Joel Lewis (2003)
• Daniel Li (2009)
• Jonathan Li (2010)
• Jonathan Lowd (2003) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Thomas Mildorf (2004) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Alison Miller (2004) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Shyam Narayanan (2015)
• Albert Ni (2003) (AoPS instructor)
• Graham O'Donnell (2018)
• Brandon Zhu (2018)
• Ajay Sharma (2004)
• Bobby Shen (2009, 2011)
• Matt Superdock (2009)
• Arnav Tripathy (2006, 2007)
• Qiaochu Yuan (2008)
• Alex Zhai (2007)
• Luke Robitaille (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
• Reagan Choi (2019)
• Kevin Liu (2017,2018,2019)
• Joey Heerens (2019)
• Ben Kang (2019)
• Ben Qi (2019)
• Brian Liu (2019)
• Daniel Zhu (2019)
• Andrew Gu (2019)

Perfect AMC 10 scorers

The AMC 10 is a challenging examination for students in grades 10 and below administered by the American Mathematics Competitions.

• Matthew Babbitt (2009)
• Sergei Bernstein (2007)
• Yifan Cao (2005)
• Kevin Chen (2007, 2008, 2009)
• Lewis Chen(2009)
• Yongyi Chen (2009)
• In Young Cho (2007)
• Mario Choi (2007)
• Calvin Deng (2008)
• Billy Dorminy (2007)
• Zhou Fan (2005)
• Albert Gu (2007)
• Robin He (2007)
• Keone Hon (2005)
• Susan Hu (2005)
• Lyndon Ji (2008)
• Sam Keller (2007)
• Michael Kural (2013)
• Vincent Le (2006)
• Daniel Li (2007)
• Jonathan Li (2009, 2007)
• Kevin Li (2009)
• Patricia Li (2005)
• Carl Lian (2007)
• Sam Lite (2009)
• David Lu (2009)
• Michael Ma (2009, 2010, 2011 in grades 3, 4, 5)
• Thomas Mildorf (2002) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Anupa Murali (2008)
• Shyam Narayanan (2013)
• Graham O'Donnell (2015, 2016)
• Edwin Peng (2013)
• Max Rosett (2005, 2006) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Amrit Saxena (2009)
• Eric Schneider (2009)
• Maximilian Schindler (2009)
• Bobby Shen (2009)
• Jeffrey Shen (2008)
• Lilly Shen (2009)
• Richard Spence (2009)
• Kyle Stankowski (2009)
• Michael Tan (2009)
• Michael Tang (2014, 2015)
• Kevin Tian (2009)
• Howard Tong (2005)
• Sam Trabucco (2008)
• Brent Woodhouse (2006, 2007)
• Lawrence Wu (2009)
• David Yang (2009)
• Allen Yuan (2009)
• Peijin Zhang (2009)
• Jonathan Zhou (2007)
• Alex Zhu (2009)
• Alex Wei (2016)
• Samuel Wang (2017)
• Jack Albright (2017, 2018)
• Andrew Cai (2017, 2018)
• Reagan Choi (2017, 2018)
• Daniel Mai (2019)
• Daniel Yuan (2017,2018)
• Jessica Wan (2018,2019)
• Ethan Zhou (2019)
• Ben Epstein (2017, 2019)

Perfect AHSME Scores

The American High School Mathematics Examination (AHSME) was the predecessor of the AMC 12.

• Christopher Chang (1994, 1995, 1996)
• Mathew Crawford (1994, 1995) (AoPS instructor)
• David Patrick (1988) (AoPS instructor)

Perfect USAMO Index

• Lewis Chen (2014)
• Samuel Elder (2009)
• Bobby Shen (2011)
• Gabriel Caroll (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001)
• Allen Liu (2015, 2016)
• Swapnil Garg (2017)
• Luke Robitaille (2019)
• Kevin Liu (2018)
• Adam Ardeishar (2019)

MATHCOUNTS

MathCounts is the premier middle school mathematics competition in the U.S.

National Champions

• Ruozhou (Joe) Jia (2000) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Albert Ni (2002) (AoPS instructor)
• Adam Hesterberg (2003)
• Neal Wu (2005)
• Daesun Yim (2006)
• Kevin Chen (2007)
• Darryl Wu (2008)
• Bobby Shen (2009)
• Mark Sellke (2010)
• Scott Wu (2011)
• Chad Qian (2012)
• Alec Sun (2013)
• Swapnil Garg (2014)
• Kevin Liu (2015)
• Edward Wan (2016)
• Luke Robitaille (2017, 2018)
• Daniel Mai (2019)

National Top 12

• Ashley Reiter Ahlin (1987) (WOOT instructor)
• Andrew Ardito (2005, 2006)
• David Benjamin (2004, 2005)
• Nathan Benjamin (2005, 2006)
• Wenyu Cao (2007)
• Andrew Cai (2016, 2017, 2018)
• Christopher Chang (1991, 1992)
• Kevin Chen (2006, 2007)
• Steven Chen (2009, 2010)
• Andrew Chien (2003)
• Peter Chien (2004)
• Mario Choi (2007)
• Joseph Chu (2004)
• Alexander Clifton (2009)
• Mathew Crawford (1990, 1991) (AoPS instructor)
• Calvin Deng (2009)
• Brian Hamrick (2006)
• Frank Han (2015)
• Adam Hesterberg (2002, 2003)
• Jason Hyun (2008)
• Ruozhou (Joe) Jia (2000) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Ben Kang (2016)
• Sam Keller (2006)
• Shaunak Kishore (2003, 2004)
• Kiran Kota (2005)
• Brian Lawrence (2003) (WOOT instructor)
• Karlanna Lewis (2005)
• Daniel Li (2006)
• Patricia Li (2005)
• Ray Li (2009)
• Poh-Ling Loh (2000)
• Brian Liu (2016)
• David Lu (2008)
• Albert Ni (2002) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Graham O'Donnell (2014)
• Maximilian Schindler (2009)
• Bobby Shen (2008, 2009)
• Elizabeth Synge (2007)
• Jason Trigg (2002)
• Sam Vandervelde (1985) (WOOT instructor)
• Edward Wan (2016)
• Victor Wang (2009)
• Alex Wei (2016)
• Eric Wei (2016)
• Ben Wright (2016)
• Neal Wu (2005, 2006)
• Rolland Wu (2006)
• Xiaoyu He (2008)
• Alex Xu (2016)
• David Yang (2009)
• Daesun Yim (2006)
• Darren Yin (2002)
• Justin Yu (2016)
• Allen Yuan (2007)
• Samuel Zbarsky (2008)
• Alex Zhai (2004)
• Mark Zhang (2005)
• Alan Zhou (2009)
• Mark Sellke (2009, 2010)
• Eugene Chen (2010)
• Lewis Chen (2010)
• Shyam Narayanan (2010, 2011)
• Franklyn Wang (2013)
• Akshaj Kadaveru (2013, 2014)
• Scott Wu (2010, 2011)
• Walker Kroubalkian (2015)
• Reagan Choi (2017, 2018)
• Daniel Yuan (2018)
• Andy Xu (2013, 2015)
• Samuel Wang (2018, 2019)
• Karthik Vedula (2019)
• Alan Kappler (2019)
• Ram Goel (2019)
• Suyash Pandit (2019)
• Ethan Zhou (2019)
• Jessica Wan (2018, 2019)
• William Chen (2018, 2019)
• Eric Shen (2019)

Masters Round Champions

• Christopher Chang (1991)
• Brian Lawrence (2003) (WOOT instructor)
• Sergei Bernstein (2005)
• Daniel Li (2006)
• Kevin Chen (2007)
• Bobby Shen (2008)
• Maximilian Schindler (2009)
• Alex Song (2010)

National Test Champions

• Mathew Crawford (1990) (AoPS instructor)
• Adam Hesterberg (2003)
• Sergei Bernstein (2005)
• Neal Wu (2006)
• Bobby Shen (2008)
• David Yang (2009)
• Mark Sellke (2010)
• Shyam Narayanan (2011)
• Kevin Liu (2014)
• Andy Xu (2015)
• Edward Wan (2016)
• Luke Robitaille (2017, 2018)
• Jeff Lin (2019)

National Team Champions

• Team Virginia: Divya Garg, Brian Hamrick, Daniel Li, Jimmy Clark (2006)
• Team Massachusetts: Alec Sun, James Lin, Michael Ren, Matthew Lipman (2013)
• Team California: Swapnil Garg, Harry Wang, Rajiv Movva, Jeffery Li (2014)
• Team Texas: Benjamin Wright, Luke Robitaille, Andrew Cai, Justin Zhou (2016)
• Team Massachusetts: Max Xu, Daniel Mai, Jeff Lin, Kaylee Ji (2019)

Harvard-MIT Math Tournament

The HMMT 2007 winning team, the "WOOTlings", consisted entirely of WOOTers:

• Wenyu Cao
• Eric Chang
• Jeremy Hahn
• Alex Kandell
• Adeel Khan
• Sathish Nagappan
• Krishanu Roy Sankar
• Patrick Tenorio

ARML

ARML winners

• Alex Song (2009, 2011)
• Benjamin Gunby (2010)
• Allen Liu (2012, 2013)
• Brian Reinhart (2017)
• Luke Robitaille (2018)
• David Chen (2019)

ARML Perfect Scorers

• Alex Song (2011)
• Shyam Narayanan (2012, 2014)
• David Chen (2019)

ARML Top 10

• Zachary Abel (2006) (AoPS assistant instructor)
• Lewis Chen(2011,2012)
• Benjamin Gunby (2010)
• Bobby Shen (2010)
• Michael Tang (2015)
• Seva Tchernov (2007)
• Arnav Tripathy (2007)
• David Yang (2009)
• Daesun Yim (2008)
• Alex Song (2009,2011,2012)
• Bailey Wang (2009)(WOOT Grader)
• Shyam Narayanan (2011, 2012 (Perfect Score), 2014 (Perfect Score), 2015)
• Samuel Wang (2019)
• Andrew Cai (2019)
• Luke Robitaille (2016,2018,2019)

See also

• Academic competitions
• Mathematics competitions
• Mathematics competition resources
• Academic scholarships