Meet Agastya Goel, an Indian-origin teenager based in California who won a gold medal at the 36th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI).
New Delhi: It is rightly said that learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. Well, meet Agastya Goel, an Indian-origin teenager based in California who won a gold medal at the 36th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). The event was conducted in Eqypt. This was significantly Goel’s second gold at the world’s toughest programming contest for high schoolers. He, overall, secured the Rank 4th with an impressive score of 438.97 out of 600.
Agastya is the son of Ashish Goel, a Stanford professor and former IIT-JEE topper. Sharing a post on X(previously Twitter), Indian-origin tech influencer Debarghya (Deedy) Das announced Agastya’s impressive success story. ” 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.”
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
In 1990, Ashish topped the IIT-JEE examination. Later, he went to earn a PhD in computer science from Standford.