Malaysian team finalized for IOAI 2025

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Jul 8, 2025

The Malaysian team roster for IOAI 2025 has been finalized! Here is a group photo from our first team briefing:

First briefing for the Malaysian team for IOAI 2025

End of the Malaysian IOAI Training and Selection Programme for 2025

Right after the conclusion of the 1st MAIO held in Mar 2025, top 40 students were invited to join the Malaysian IOAI Training and Selection Programme where weekly classes and lab work were assigned. The material is specifically designed to teach the fundamentals of artificial intelligence to high school students that traditionally do not have the prerequisite knowledge required. Our students this year worked problems such as building a rudimentary pedestrian detector from scratch using plain Pytorch, pitting AI agents against each other in a game of Liar’s Dice, and finetuning small language models.

The 1st Selection test of the Malaysian IOAI TSP was held on Apr 25th 2025, over a 48hr time period. 18 students proceeded further from this point onwards to sit for the two-day 2nd Selection test. The 2nd Selection test is designed to emulate the format and rigour expected at the International AI Olympiad, and consists of 5 problems to be solved in two sittings on Jun 8 and Jun 14 2025 respectively, averaging 2 hours per problem.

Selection 2 was designed to push students to their limits with problems at an hitherto unseen difficulty, with a very strict time limit. Some of these problems have been prepared up to one year in advance for this very occasion. Even so, this year’s students did remarkably well. The outcome of scores were very close, as seen in the score plot below.

Score distribution for Selection 2, 2025

Malaysian team roster for IOAI 2025

These four students below have distinguished themselves in this final selection test, and will form the Malaysian team representing the country at IOAI 2025 this year. We wish them a smooth and fruitful journey to Beijing in August!

  1. Khor Kai Jie
  2. Lim Ming Wen
  3. Ryan Kua Yi Jie
  4. Yong Zi Hong

Tan Nian Wei

Head coach and Malaysia team lead

Malaysia AI Olympiad Committee

P.S. Here is a collection of key visuals from problems written for the Malaysian programme this year. Stay tuned for future editorials!

Key visuals from problems used in the Malaysian AI Olympiad programme in 2025

Citation:

@misc{malaysianteam2025finalized,
    title        = {Malaysian team finalized for IOAI 2025},
    author       = {Tan, Nian Wei},
    year         = {2025},
    howpublished = {Blog},
    url          = {https://aiolympiad.my/posts/malaysian-team-finalized-ioai-2025},
}