Monta Vista High School
Project Awards 2025
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monta Vista High School | Sushma | Bana | AliHassan | Hashim | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | EMBER (Electronic Mapping Body for Emergency Rescue) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Saanj | Rao | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Beyond Caller ID: A Hybrid Temporal-Prosodic-Attention Framework for Enhanced Vishing Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Horton | Zhu | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | EMBER (Electronic Mapping Body for Emergency Rescue) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Julie | Choi | Mahika | Pandit | Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Using Satellite imagery and Remote Sensing Indexes to detect Water for Agricultural Purposes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Pamela | Chow | Kirthana | Chandrasekar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | From Glow to Gloom: Exploring the Use of Bioluminescent Organisms for Rapid Bacterial Culture Detection (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Saanvi | Doshi | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | From Glow to Gloom: Exploring the Use of Bioluminescent Organisms for Rapid Bacterial Culture Detection (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Saumit | Korada | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Mitigating E. Coli Dysbiosis From Artificial Sweeteners: A Study On The Impact Of Prebiotics, Inulin and FOS (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Eliana Subin | Lee | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing Korean Red Ginseng's Effect on Dopamine Increase and Oxidative Stress Reduction in Drosophila for Parkinson's (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Adhya | Thota | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing Korean Red Ginseng's Effect on Dopamine Increase and Oxidative Stress Reduction in Drosophila for Parkinson's (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Catherine | Zhang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing Korean Red Ginseng's Effect on Dopamine Increase and Oxidative Stress Reduction in Drosophila for Parkinson's (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| John | Conlin | Prathik | Kumar | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | AQI Forecasting System: ML prediction using Weather and Carbon Emission Data (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Rishi | Salvi | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Countering Antibiotic Resistance with Proteomics Data and Artificial Intelligence Based Virtual Screening (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Scott | DeRuiter | Rohan Rishi | Agarwal | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Quantum-Enhanced Analysis and Grading of Vocal Performance: A Novel Approach for Musical Evaluation and Improvement (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| David | Greenstein | Shrehan | Chatterjee | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Ensemble Modeling for Real-Time Prediction and Long-Term Mitigation Forecasting of Algal Blooms in the San Francisco Bay (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Soham | Dwivedi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Ensemble Modeling for Real-Time Prediction and Long-Term Mitigation Forecasting of Algal Blooms in the San Francisco Bay (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| William Kaden | Liu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Ensemble Modeling for Real-Time Prediction and Long-Term Mitigation Forecasting of Algal Blooms in the San Francisco Bay (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Kavita | Gupta | Samarth Kumar | Kashyap | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Topobathymetric LiDAR and Geospatial Modeling to Identify Threats to Endangered Mangroves (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Suhani | Pahuja | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Identification of Epigenome Regulators as Pan-cancer Biomarkers and Drug Targets in gynecological cancers (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Anirud | Sainarayanan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Topobathymetric LiDAR and Geospatial Modeling to Identify Threats to Endangered Mangroves (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kyle | Jones | Abhijay | Gupta | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | RideAware: Smart, Safe & Sustainable Helmets (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Sakthi | Satrawada | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Preventing Type 2 Diabetes in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Patients Using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Lora | Lerner | Kevin Lihong | Chen | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Chitosan Concentration on the Youngs Modulus and Biodegradability of Silkworm Silk through Cross-Linking (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Most Promising Young Scientist, $200 and Certificate (High School GR 9-12), SPV Market Research | |||||||
| Bryan Jiarui | Ge | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Chitosan Concentration on the Youngs Modulus and Biodegradability of Silkworm Silk through Cross-Linking (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Most Promising Young Scientist, $200 and Certificate (High School GR 9-12), SPV Market Research | |||||||
| Leo Yanlin | Lee | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Chitosan Concentration on the Youngs Modulus and Biodegradability of Silkworm Silk through Cross-Linking (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Most Promising Young Scientist, $200 and Certificate (High School GR 9-12), SPV Market Research | |||||||
| Michael | Lordan | Aarnav | Agrawal | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Forecasting Tipping Points in Global Mangrove Ecosystems Using Transformer-Based Segmentation and Time-Series Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Raymond | Feng | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Lightweight and Fireproof Emergency Shelters For Homeless and Disaster Evacuees using Structures Inspired by Origami (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Lindsey Liang | Niu | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing PDMS Microfluidic Sensors for Precise Micro Blood Flow Measurement to Advance Early Cardiovascular Diagnosis (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Shrey | Vishen | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Forecasting Tipping Points in Global Mangrove Ecosystems Using Transformer-Based Segmentation and Time-Series Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Jeff | Payne | Rishab Reddy | Perati | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF INTRACRANIAL TUMORS USING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES AND MACHINE LEARNING MODELS (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Ted | Shinta | Anya | Deshpande | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Harnessing AI and Histopathology to Classify Ovarian Cysts, Detect Cancer, and Investigate Fertility Rates (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Alan | Wong | Ansh Vishal | Agarwal | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Machine Learning Approach to Forecasting FOREX Movements Utilizing Topic Modeling and Macroeconomic Indicators (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Aditya Venkatasai | Dendukuri | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Machine Learning Approach to Forecasting FOREX Movements Utilizing Topic Modeling and Macroeconomic Indicators (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Terry | Yu | Vishnu | Bharadwaj | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Revolutionizing Firefighting with Advanced Edge Detection in Smoky Environments: An ML-Driven Approach to Save Lives (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Shreyas | Chatterjee | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Global Computational Analysis of Carbon Exchange Dynamics in Late Successional Forests across Climate Scenarios (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ishaan | Garg | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Revolutionizing Firefighting with Advanced Edge Detection in Smoky Environments: An ML-Driven Approach to Save Lives (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Seongjun | Kang | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Revolutionizing Firefighting with Advanced Edge Detection in Smoky Environments: An ML-Driven Approach to Save Lives (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Sumedha | Kumar | GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Optimizing Safety and Reducing Harm: Navigating Obstacles in Autonomous Algorithms using Genetic Algorithms (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Tommy Siqing | Liu | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | Using Analog and Digital Signal Processing Techniques in Building Low-Cost High-Quality Oscilloscope for High School Use (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Roshan | Saxena | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Global Computational Analysis of Carbon Exchange Dynamics in Late Successional Forests across Climate Scenarios (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jihoo | Won | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Global Computational Analysis of Carbon Exchange Dynamics in Late Successional Forests across Climate Scenarios (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||