On October 19, 2019, VNUHCM - University of Science's students attended the IEEEXtreme Contest.

The IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE Student members — advised and proctored by an IEEE member, and often supported by an IEEE Student Branch — compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems.

There were 5015 teams with 15000 students around the world participating in the IEEEXtreme 2019.

As a result, team HCMUS-Dopamine (IEEE Region 10: Tran Quoc Cuong, Nguyen Hy Hoai Lam, Ho Nguyen Hai Tuan), a member of VNUHCM - University of Science finished in top 5.