Quick Takes

During the 2025–2026 academic year, NYU Shanghai’s XCPC teams competed in eight International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) and three China Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC), earning three gold medals and seven bronze medals.

Highlights included one gold and one bronze at the 2025 ICPC Asia Xi’an Regional Contest, held at Northwestern Polytechnical University on October 18, 2025. NYU Team 1 also earned a bronze medal at the Huawei Cup: 2025 ICPC Asia-East Continent Final Contest on February 1 in Hangzhou.

During the 2025–2026 academic year, NYU Shanghai Robotics Club students competed in VEX U and RoboMaster University League, earning recognition for their robot design, programming, and teamwork.

The team ranked seventh in the Asian region at the VEX Robotics Asian Open Grand Finals, held in Xi’an on January 1. The event brought together nearly 700 teams across divisions, and the team received an invitation to the VEX Robotics World Championship.

Just one year after its establishment, the club’s RoboMaster team, United Force, earned awards at the RoboMaster 2026 University League’s Jiangsu Station: a Second Prize for its infantry robot in the non-A-tier 3v3 Combat division.

Congratulations to “Kiwi – An AI Learning Companion Platform” on being selected for the 2026 Shanghai Municipal Teaching Reform Advancement Program by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. Led by Nasir Memon, Hongyi Wen, Lihua Xu, Shengjie Wang, Keith Ross, and Yao Wang, the project has been recognized for its innovative platform design, effective integration of AI into teaching practices, and outstanding achievements in developing students’ AI competencies.
 

NYU Shanghai first-year Computer Science PhD student Wang Zhe and incoming Computer Science PhD student Xu Sizhe, advised by Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Computer Science Wang Zhaonan, won first place in the Mars Landslide Segmentation Challenge at the CVPR 2026 PBVS Workshop.

The team worked on landslide segmentation using multimodal Martian imagery, a task made especially challenging by limited prior knowledge, distinctive terrain features, and complex spatial semantics of the Martian landscape.

“This was an incredible opportunity to apply computer vision techniques to planetary data,” the team said. “We hope this achievement brings greater visibility to our research community.”

At the 2024 X-GAME Shanghai Smart New Energy Vehicle Big Data Competition, the team “NanNanYu”, supervised by Professor Zhibin Chen, Assistant Professor of Engineering at NYU Shanghai, conducted innovative research titled “Analysis of Heterogeneous Charging Behavior and Facility Matching Driven by Simulation.” Selected from over 600 teams and nearly 800 participants, the team’s outstanding work received high praise from the judges and won First Prize in the New Energy Vehicle Category at the final competition.

Let’s hear from this international and dynamic young team about their perspectives and practices on green mobility, as well as their memorable experiences and aspirations from the X-GAME competition — watch the video here.