Matija Likar

Matija Likar is a Slovenian competitive programmer and software developer from Maribor. He represented Slovenia at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2021, winning a silver medal (82nd overall, 292/600), and returned for IOI 2022, while studying the International Baccalaureate at II. gimnazija Maribor. He is now an undergraduate mathematics student at MIT and a Python developer at PredictLeads, and documents hands-on STEM projects on his personal site.

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• Won a silver medal for Slovenia at IOI 2021 in Singapore, placing 82nd overall with 292/600, competing alongside Benjamin Bajd (silver), Domen Hocevar (bronze) and Lan Sevcnikar - one of Slovenia's strongest IOI showings.Jun 25, 2021
• Won a silver medal for Slovenia at IOI 2021 (Singapore, online), 82nd overall with 292/600, alongside Benjamin Bajd (silver), Domen Hocevar (bronze) and Lan Sevcnikar - one of Slovenia's strongest IOI showings.Jun 25, 2021
• Competed again at IOI 2022 for Slovenia, placing 187th of 349 with 136.00 points.Aug 15, 2022
• Returned to IOI in 2022 for Slovenia, placing 187th of 349 with 136.00 points.Aug 15, 2022
• Publishes competitive-programming handouts (prefix sums, algorithm time analysis) as open learning material and maintains a TekmovalnoProgramiranje GitHub repo of problem solutions.Jan 10, 2022
• Ran a personal portfolio site documenting hands-on STEM projects - 3D printing, amateur pressure-based rocketry and guidance, microcontroller development, physics/astronomy, video editing and music production - and an Arduino-based guidance/telemetry computer 'Noordung' (2021).Jan 2021
• Runs a personal portfolio site documenting hands-on STEM projects (3D printing, amateur rocketry and guidance, microcontroller development, physics/astronomy, video editing, music production).Jan 2021
• Built 'Noordung', an Arduino-based telemetry and guidance computer for low-mass amateur rocketry - evidence of a hardware/embedded streak beyond pure software, later enriched by his MIT mathematics trajectory.Jan 2020