EXCLUSIVE Ionut Budisteanu wins first place in Shanghai IT contest

Romanian computing prodigy Ionut Budisteanu, representing the University of Bucharest, on Tuesday evening was awarded a new prize, this time in Shanghai - China, where he came first in the IT international competition 'Embedded System Design Contest.'

According to the family of the young computer science passionate, Ionut Budisteanu is the first European to have won the first place in this contest.

Ionut Budistean is a computer scientist and inventor born in Ramnicu Valcea. He is known for his outstanding results in international competitions, but mostly for the Gordon E. Moore grand prize worth 75,000 dollars obtained in the 'Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF 2013),' one of the most important science and engineering competitions for high school pupils worldwide.

In 2013, Time magazine ranked him 9th in the chart of most influential teens in the world and in 2014 he made an application for sightless allowing them to walk using the mobile phone.

At present, Ionut Budisteanu is a second year student with the Mathematics-Informatics Faculty of the University of Bucharest. AGERPRES