Engineering · Software Engineer

Kevin Sun

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Olympiads
IMO gold 2014–2016, bronze 2013; IOI silver 2016IMO 2013BronzeIMO 2014GoldIMO 2015GoldIMO 2016GoldIOI 2016Silver

Autumn profile

Researched with Autumn · 2026-11-04
Details
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Company sitecognition.ai
UniversityMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Notes
  • Software Engineer at Cognition in San Francisco, 'building collaborative AI teammates including the world's first AI engineer Devin' (ICPC NAPC trainer bio).Jan 2026
  • Competes in the Universal Cup as team USA1 with Gennady Korotkevich (tourist) and Andrew He (ecnerwala, senior engineer at Cognition); won the 3rd Universal Cup Semifinals, the team's third premier UCup victory.2025
  • Placed 2nd at the 2019 ICPC World Finals in Porto with MIT teammates Andrew He and Yinzhan Xu; MIT was first among North American teams. Team led by CSAIL PI Martin Rinard and captain Aleksandar Zlateski.Apr 29, 2019
  • Andrew He, his 2019 MIT ICPC teammate, is also at Cognition (described as a senior engineer at Cognition Labs).
  • Serves as a 2026 ICPC North America Programming Camp (NAPC-O) trainer alongside Gennady Korotkevich, Nick Wu and Arup Guha.Jan 2026
  • Won the Yandex Cup 2023 Algorithm Final, 1st at the 2024 Universal Cup Summer Summit and the 2025 Universal Cup finals.
  • Also competes in World Puzzle Federation events, a puzzle-solving side interest beyond programming contests.
  • AtCoder lists Canada, birth year 1998, affiliation MIT.

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