Muhammadjon Hokimiyon

Muhammadjon Hokimiyon is a Tajik competitive programmer who won a Silver Medal for Tajikistan at the 2021 International Olympiad in Informatics (rank 63 of 351, 315/600) after first competing at IOI 2020. He also earned an APIO 2021 bronze and reached Codeforces Master (rating 2110, max 2139) under the handle sm1lee. He studied at Innopolis University in Russia, competed for its ICPC team, led a 2023 image style-transfer capstone, and now works as an AI engineer at Yandex.

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• Won IOI 2021 Silver (315/600, rank 63/351), a national-best performance; Tajikistan has only 3 IOI silvers ever, so he is one of the country's strongest-ever informatics competitors.Jun 25, 2021
• Current role is AI engineer at Yandex - the competitive-programming background converted into an industrial ML/AI engineering career.
• Public reachability: university email [contact omitted] and Telegram @Muhammad_Hokimiyon published on his capstone team page.
• Moved from Dushanbe secondary school to Innopolis University (Russia), the region's flagship CS university, where he enrolled by 2022 and competed for its ICPC team.Jan 1, 2022
• First IOI appearance was 2020 (131.71/600, rank 257) before the 2021 silver - a one-year jump from mid-field to the top 18% suggests rapid acceleration typical of an elite training pipeline.Sep 19, 2020
• Led the Innopolis 'Style Transfer' capstone (2023), an image style-transfer ML product, with teammate Sadi Toirov - his applied-ML project work.Jan 1, 2023
• Codeforces handle sm1lee, Master rank, contest rating 2110 (max 2139) - the handle is the identity anchor confirming the IOI/Innopolis/LinkedIn records are the same person.
• Competed at APIO 2021 with a Bronze for Tajikistan, reinforcing a strong 2021 season across multiple olympiads.Jan 1, 2021
• Scored 784 in USACO 2020 January Gold, evidence of sustained international-level training during high school.Jan 1, 2020
• Second Codeforces handle WuBullMe is linked from his IOI stats profile, useful for historical contest traces.