#MIE 2026 and APOAI 2026 results

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Aug 17, 2026

Malaysia AI Olympiad announces the results of its inaugural Malaysian Invitational Examination (MIE 2026) and Malaysia’s participation in the first Asia-Pacific Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (APOAI 2026). MIE 2026 was held online on June 6 and selected eight students to represent Malaysia at APOAI 2026. At the regional competition, hosted at Akademi Sains Negara in Kuala Lumpur on June 13, the Malaysian delegation won a silver medal and four honourable mentions.

#Malaysian Invitational Examination 2026

Students who performed well in MAIO 2026 have since been invited to the MAIO Training and Selection Programme (TSP). At the end of the programme, these students sat for the Malaysian Invitational Examination (MIE), the final examination for Malaysia’s IOAI national team selection.

Reserved for this smaller group of students, MIE uses demanding tasks that test the standard expected of Malaysia’s national team. Previous seasons had the same final stage, but 2026 is the first year it has a formal name.

MIE 2026 was held on Saturday, June 6, 2026, as part of Week 11 of the TSP. This proctored online competition gave students five hours to solve three olympiad tasks:

1. Angels on a Pinhead
2. Ordered Embeddings
3. Navigation By Starlight (task editorial)

All three problems ran on the Nitro AI Judge platform, where each student received equal access to GPU compute.

Of the 23 students who took part in MIE 2026, the top eight scorers qualified to represent Malaysia at APOAI 2026 one week later.

#Asia Pacific Olympiad in AI 2026

The Asia Pacific Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (APOAI) is a regional competition for secondary school students in the Asia-Pacific region, closely aligned with the regulations and task format of IOAI. 2026 was its inaugural edition, hosted by China in a distributed hybrid format: each delegation competed from a local in-person hub while taking part on a unified online platform. 128 contestants from across the region took part, with 10 gold, 22 silver and 33 bronze medals awarded alongside 36 honourable mentions.

Malaysia hosted its satellite venue at the Akademi Sains Negara campus in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, June 13, 2026, capping off Week 12 of our TSP. This marks the first time we have hosted a regional AI olympiad event, following our first national event at MAIO 2026. The competition ran on Bohrium, the same competition platform used in IOAI 2025.

The APOAI 2026 tasks can be found here on Bohrium.

The Malaysian delegation is listed below in alphabetical order together with their achievements:

1. Chon Feng Qi
2. Khor Yan Xun (Silver medal)
3. Lee Yan Zee (Honourable mention)
4. Liew Chia-Wei
5. Low Yu Xuan (Honourable mention)
6. Tan Welvin (Honourable mention)
7. Tan Yu Xuan
8. Tan Zen Ee (Honourable mention)

In total, the Malaysian students earned a silver medal and four honourable mentions.

#Team selection for IOAI 2026

MIE scores and APOAI scores were combined 50:50 to arrive at a final ranking for the Malaysian national team. Students were then extended invitations to participate at IOAI 2026 in that order.

See our IOAI 2026 results post 👀 for how they did in Astana.

We thank every student who took part in the Training and Selection Programme and MIE 2026 for their dedication throughout the programme. Look forward to seeing many of you again!

References:

• Official APOAI 2026 results

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Citation:

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    title        = {MIE 2026 and APOAI 2026 results},
    author       = {Tan, Nian Wei},
    year         = {2026},
    howpublished = {Blog},
    url          = {https://aiolympiad.my/posts/mie-2026-and-apoai-2026},
}