2021 Regeneron ISEF Awards

ISEF, the International Science & Engineering Fair, returned this year in a virtual format with the sponsorship of Regeneron and 1,833 finalists representing 49 states and 64 countries. Congratulations to all the participants from the Synopsys Championship and to the award winners announced on May 20 (special awards) and May 21 (scientific category awards).

Special congratulations to Franklin Wang for his ISEF top award, the Peggy Scripps Award for Science Communication, as the finalist who is best able to communicate their project to the lay public, explaining both the science and its potential impact on society. His project in Physics & Astronomy is The Fast and Inconspicuous: New Near Earth Asteroids Discovered Using Deep Learning and Synthetic Data Are Fainter and Move Faster than Those Previously Discovered.

StudentScientific CategoryAwarding OrganizationAward
Ashwika AgrawalBiomedical and Health SciencesISEFFirst Award of $5000
Mihir BaviskarSystems SoftwareKing Abdul-Aziz & His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity$500 award and Online access to the Mawhiba Universal Enrichment Program
Roy GrossEmbedded SystemsISEFThird Award of $1000
Tim JingComputational Biology and BioinformaticsISEFThird Award of $1000
Suryabhan MohapatraSystems SoftwareKing Abdul-Aziz & His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity$500 award and Online access to the Mawhiba Universal Enrichment Program
Shrinandan NarayananSystems SoftwareISEFSecond Award of $2000
Andy PhungSystems SoftwareKing Abdul-Aziz & His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity$500 award and Online access to the Mawhiba Universal Enrichment Program
Marek PIntoTranslational Medical ScienceISEFFourth Award of $500
Franklin WangPhysics & AstronomyISEFFirst Award of $5000
ISEFPeggy Scripps Award for Science Communication of $10,000
Office of Naval Research on behalf of the United States Navy and Marine CorpsChief of Naval Research Scholarship Award of $15,000
Stephen XiaMaterials ScienceISEFSecond Award of $2000
Ella YeeBiomedical and Health SciencesISEFSecond Award of $2000
Alexander ZhangMathematicsISEFFirst Award of $5000
American Mathematical SocietyThird Award of $500
Mu Alpha ThetaFirst Award of $1500