The competition is held annually and split into undergraduate and graduate divisions, organized by the Association for Computing Machinery.
[1][2] The competition started as a travel grant program in 2003 and was previously sponsored by Microsoft.
[3] The first round of competition spans more than 20 major ACM conferences, hosting special poster sessions to showcase research submitted by students.
Selected semi-finalists add a slide presentation and compete for prizes in both undergraduate and graduate categories based on their knowledge, contribution, and quality of presentation.
Those taking first place at the second-level competitions are invited to compete in the annual Grand Finals.
Three top students in each category are selected as winners each year.
Christopher Bain (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) 2.
Juan Carlos Alonso Valenzuela (University of Seville) 3.
Irene Zanardi (Università della Svizzera italiana) 2.
Ocean Hurd (University of California, Santa Cruz) 2.
Christopher Theisen (North Carolina State University) 2.
Jevavijayan Rajendran (NYU Tandon School of Engineering) 2.
Vanessa Pena Araya (Universidad de Chile) 2.
Tsung-Wei Huang (National Cheng Kung University) 3.
Diego Cavalcanti (Federal University of Campina Grande) 3.
Neha Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) 3.