Olympiad medalists at Cognition

16 people who work or worked at Cognition have won medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) or International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). Eight of them hold 19 IOI gold medals between them.

Updated 2026-11-04 · 30 sources

Scott WuCo-Founder and CEOSteven HaoCo-FounderWalden YanCo-Founder & CPOAndrew HeHuman Software EngineerGennady KorotkevichSoftware EngineerKevin SunSoftware EngineerAdhyyan SekhsariaFounding EngineerNeal WuFormer · Member of Technical Staff
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medalists
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IOI gold medals
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IMO gold medals
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teams with 2+ members at Cognition
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Medals by year

Each row is one medalist, from their first medal to today, with a dot for every medal and an orange mark for the month they joined Cognition. 45 medals in all and one honourable mention.

Gennady KorotkevichIOI · BelarusOlympiad profile IOI 2006: silver for Belarus; IOI 2007: gold for Belarus; IOI 2008: gold for Belarus; IOI 2009: gold for Belarus; IOI 2010: gold for Belarus; IOI 2011: gold for Belarus; IOI 2012: gold for Belarus; Joined Cognition Dec 2024.
Neal WuIOI · United States · FormerOlympiad profile IOI 2008: gold for United States; IOI 2009: gold for United States; IOI 2010: gold for United States; Joined Cognition Nov 2023, has since left.
Zhan Xiong ChinIOI · SingaporeOlympiad profile IOI 2008: bronze for Singapore; IOI 2009: silver for Singapore; IOI 2010: silver for Singapore; IOI 2011: silver for Singapore; Joined Cognition Aug 2023.
Scott WuIOI · United StatesOlympiad profile IOI 2012: gold for United States; IOI 2013: gold for United States; IOI 2014: gold for United States; Joined Cognition Nov 2023.
Kevin SunIMO, IOI · CanadaOlympiad profile IMO 2013: bronze for Canada; IMO 2014: gold for Canada; IMO 2015: gold for Canada; IMO 2016: gold for Canada; IOI 2016: silver for Canada.
Steven HaoIOI · United StatesOlympiad profile IOI 2013: silver for United States; IOI 2014: gold for United States; Joined Cognition Nov 2023.
Allen LiuIMO · United StatesOlympiad profile IMO 2014: gold for United States; IMO 2015: gold for United States; IMO 2016: gold for United States; Joined Cognition Jun 2026.
Andrew HeIOI · United StatesOlympiad profile IOI 2014: gold for United States; IOI 2015: gold for United States; Joined Cognition Nov 2023.
Daniel ChiuIOI · United StatesOlympiad profile IOI 2015: gold for United States; IOI 2016: gold for United States; Joined Cognition Aug 2025.
Mark JabbourIMO · Syria · FormerOlympiad profile IMO 2016: bronze for Syria; IMO 2017: silver for Syria; IMO 2018: bronze for Syria; Joined Cognition Mar 2025, has since left.
Sampriti PandaIOI · IndiaOlympiad profile IOI 2016: bronze for India; IOI 2017: bronze for India.
Adhyyan SekhsariaIOI · IndiaOlympiad profile IOI 2019: silver for India; Joined Cognition Nov 2023.
Walden YanIOI · United StatesOlympiad profile IOI 2020: gold for United States; Joined Cognition Nov 2023.
Chon Hou YeIMO, IOI · Macau · FormerOlympiad profile IMO 2021: honourable mention for Macau; IMO 2022: bronze for Macau; IOI 2022: bronze for Macau; IMO 2023: silver for Macau; IOI 2023: bronze for Macau; Joined Cognition Jun 2025, has since left.
Elliot En-Yi LiuIOI · TaiwanOlympiad profile IOI 2021: silver for Taiwan; IOI 2022: gold for Taiwan; Joined Cognition Jun 2025.
Carlo BaronioIMO · ItalyOlympiad profile IMO 2023: bronze for Italy; Joined Cognition Apr 2025.
G GoldS SilverB BronzeHM Honourable mention Joined Cognition Joined, has since left At Cognition

Join dates aren't public for Kevin Sun and Sampriti Panda. Former staff are marked; the dates they left aren't in the data, so their rows show only when they joined.

Official resultsIMO (imo-official.org): 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2021 2022 2023IOI (stats.ioinformatics.org): 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
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National teams

IOI teams where two or more members later worked at Cognition. Each country sends up to four students.

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ICPC and team contests

Three-person teams at the ICPC World Finals and the Universal Cup with two or more members at Cognition.

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More on Cognition

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How we made this

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Enrich {name}, {title} at Cognition (Devin, Devin Desktop/Windsurf). Dig into what they've built or worked on at Cognition and how they got there, including any company Cognition acquired. Before Cognition, look for the specific teams, desks, labs and co-founders they worked with, and any olympiad, ICPC or training-camp history with teammates. Pull in their open source work and anything they've posted publicly about working at Cognition, quoted word for word. This is for a public page, so skip contact details.

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Medals are matched to the Olympiad Collection, Autumn's record of IOI and IMO results, only where a second signal confirms it is the same person, such as the same LinkedIn profile. Each row links to that person's Olympiad profile.