Recently, several teams of ZJUI students achieved exciting results in the 2021 International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM). The team consists of LIU Lijie (‘23 Civil Engineering), ZHOU Qishen (‘23 Computer Engineering), and QIU Yue (‘23 Computer Engineering), was designated Finalist Award. Meanwhile, the other four teams received the Meritorious Winner of 2021 MCM/ICM, including ZHANG Bolin (‘24 Electrical Engineering), FANG Jiahao (‘24 Electrical Engineering), WANG Ximo (’23 Mechanical Engineering), and so on. A total of 10053 teams from around the world participated in this year's competition. A total of 284 teams won Finalist awards and a total of 697 teams won Meritorious Winner.

The Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM) is an international mathematical modeling competition held annually in USA and sponsored by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Every year, thousands of teams prepare original mathematical papers in response to modeling problems aimed at real-world problems. Economy, management, environment, resources, ecology, medicine, safety and other fields have been topics of the competition.  Teams of three students are required to compete specific tasks in modeling, preparing a solution, validating the work, and writing a paper on the designated problem within 72 hours after it is posted.

This is the four consecutive years that ZJUI undergraduates have achieved outstanding results since they participated in the MCM/ICM. It is also the first time that they have won the Finalist award in the MCM competition and the Meritorious Winner award in the ICM competition. Previously, ZJUI students won the top prize of the competition, Outstanding Winner and the INFORMS Award, in 2019, and won the Meritorious Winner prize in 2018 and 2020. And several teams also won the Honorable Winner and other awards every year.