TOMSK, Feb 5 – RIA Tomsk. The scientist of Tomsk Polytechnical University (TPU) Pavel Haustov entered the top-200 world's best programmers under the version of international project Codeforces on competitive programming, the press-service of the university reported on Friday.
According to the press-service, Codeforces – is the international social network devoted to competitive programming. Experts in the field of IT use a resource. On the basis of a site regularly pass competitions on algorithmic programming. Pavel Haustov has in the project the highest red rating and a rank of the grand master.
"Pavel Haustov takes 178 place among more than 25 thousand participants of the rating, which indicates very high skill in the field of algorithmic programming", - said in a statement.
It is added that the polytechnic previously took high positions in the international ratings, in particular, as a student he entered the top-100 list of Google Сode Jam, taking 97th place in it. The young scientists have already offered a job by large IT organisations, including Google, Yandex and Mail.ru, however Haustov stayed at the Tomsk Polytechnic University."I'm interested in scientific work. While studying in the 10th grade of lycée at TPU, I have visited for the first time classes on competitive programming at the Institute of Cybernetics, and then I began to participate actively in the competition as a part of TPU team <…> During this time, so to say, I was involved into that, and ending lycée, I precisely knew, where I want to study and whom I am going to become", - the press-service quoted Haustov.
It is noticed that Haustov holds now a position of the assistant to the Computer Engineering Department of the TPU Institute of Cybernetics. In addition to working at the department, the young scientist is the university team coach on programming. Also Haustov trained for three years lycée's team to participate in the All-Russia olympiad in informatics.