Nguyễn Bùi Đức Dũng

Vietnamese competitive programmer; IOI silver medalist for Vietnam in 2025 and 2026, and APIO 2025 gold medalist.

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• Represented Vietnam at IOI 2025 as an 11th grader and IOI 2026 as a 12th grader, taking silver both years (2025 rank 79, 344.44/600; 2026 rank 67, 329.41/600).Aug 13, 2026
• Won his IOI silver in 2025 as an 11th grader (rank 79) and again in 2026 as a 12th grader (rank 67), an unusually consistent two-year IOI medal run for Vietnam.Aug 13, 2026
• Received Vietnam's Third-class Labor Order in 2025 for his IOI 2025 silver, and was nominated for the 2025 Vietnam Outstanding Young Face award.Sep 26, 2025
• Won Vietnam's sole gold at APIO 2025 with 236/300 including two perfect 100-point problems, in an exam described by team officials as high-difficulty.Jun 6, 2025
• Won Vietnam's only Gold medal at APIO 2025 with 236/300 points, including two perfect-scoring problems.May 27, 2025
• Began his international-medal run well before high school: as an 8th grader at THCS-THPT Newton (2021-22) he took first place in Hanoi's city informatics gifted-student exam and was the city's top scorer, then collected golds at WMTC team math, AMO, Central-Highland Informatics, and Hue ICT Challenge by grade 9.Jun 6, 2025
• His 2026 IOI silver (rank 67/375, 54.9% of total) came while Vietnam's teammate Nguyen Huu Tuan took gold, placing Vietnam in the world top eight.Aug 14, 2026
• Went by the handle EtherStrike on Codeforces, reaching International Master with a peak rating of 2328.2026
• Compares on Codeforces as EtherStrike, an International Master with a peak rating around 2328 and 1158+ problems solved; this handle links his IOI/press identity to his competitive-programming record.2026
• Chose the Informatics specialization at THPT Chuyên Khoa học Tự nhiên over other options after his junior-high medal haul, keeping him in Hanoi's top pipeline for the national IOI team.Jun 6, 2025