Gonen Gazit

Israeli competitive programmer who won a Silver medal representing Israel at the 35th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2021), placing 82nd of 351 with 292 points. Studied computer science at the Technion (Taub Faculty), where he was a co-author on the FourierPIM processing-in-memory research paper (arXiv 2023). He later returned to the Israeli IOI delegation as Deputy leader in 2023 and has since worked in finance transformation at Payoneer.

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• Represented Israel at the 35th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2021 and won a Silver medal, scoring 292 across the six tasks (rank 82 of 351, 76.92% relative rank).Jun 2021
• Returned to IOI in 2023 as Deputy leader of the Israeli delegation, moving from contestant to team staff within two years.Jan 2023
• Technion CS faculty news describes him as 'a CS undergraduate student and a member of the Israeli team at the International Computer Science Olympiad', tying both IOI participations (2020, 2021) to the same Technion CS undergraduate.2021
• First author Orian Leitersdorf's FourierPIM paper lists Gonen Gazit with the Technion campus address [contact omitted], confirming he was a Technion CS student/researcher in 2023 and providing a public contact address.Apr 2023
• LinkedIn lists him as a Finance Transformation specialist at Payoneer based in Israel, with a BA in Business/Managerial Economics from Ruppin Academic Center - identity as the IOI contestant is plausible but not yet independently cross-confirmed.
• Co-took 2nd place (5 problems) in a Technion programming contest alongside Orian Leitersdorf and Amani Shhadi, the same cohort he later published FourierPIM with.2021
• The IOI 2021 silver came in a year Israel's whole team medaled (three gold, one honorable mention reported in Israeli press), a strong cohort that he moved directly into competitive CS research from.Jun 2021