Winners of the 2023 California Science & Engineering Fair in Los Angeles were announced and the results for the Synopsys Championship participants are posted below.
107 Synopsys Championship projects (130 students) qualified and were accepted for CSEF. 60 projects (71 students) received Category Awards or Sponsored Awards.
Congratulations to our outstanding Santa Clara County students, and especially to Sharanya Chudgar who was awarded Project of the Year in the Junior Division!
| Category Award | Name | Category: Project Title | Awarding Organization | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Inika Adapala | Product Science: Communication App for Patients with Locked-in Syndrome | CSEF | 1st Place |
| 1st | Sharanya Chudgar | Environmental Engineering: Solar-Tracking Litterminator | CSEF | 1st Place |
| CSEF | Project of the Year Junior Division | |||
| Saban Family Foundation Scholar Prizes | Junior Division First Place Award | |||
| 1st | Shanya Gill | Electronics & Electromagnetics: Prevention of casualties and property damage due to home fires by using thermal imaging and software based occupancy detection | CSEF | 1st Place |
| Saban Family Foundation Scholar Prizes | Junior Division Second Place Award | |||
| 1st | Armaan Gomes | Computational Systems & Analysis: Leveraging Genetic Algorithms and Mathematical Wildfire Propagation Models to Determine Optimal Firebreak Placement | CSEF | 1st Place |
| Math Teacher's Achievement Awards | Senior Division Computational Systems & Analysis Award | |||
| 1st | Carina Gross | Animal Biology: AVIAN: Aerial Video Identification Automated Network. Novel Machine Learning to Monitor Bird Population by Flight Pattern | CSEF | 1st Place |
| 1st | Roy Gross | Electronics & Electromagnetics: Tactical Drone Detection and Tracking using Machine-Learned Radio Interferometry: Lessons from Ukraine | CSEF | 1st Place |
| 1st | Evelyn Hsu | Plant Biology: Agrobacterium rhizogenes Versus Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA Transformation in Brachypodium distachyon | CSEF | 1st Place |
| 1st | Reshma Kosaraju | Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology: Quantification and Optimization of Circular RNA Stability for Improved RNA Therapeutics | CSEF | 1st Place |
| 1st | Manasvini Singh | Mathematical Sciences: A Better Understanding of Water Consumption Using Machine Learning | CSEF | 1st Place |
| Math Teacher's Achievement Awards | Junior Division Mathematical Sciences Award | |||
| 1st | Sophie Tong | Plant Biology: Investigating the Effect of Environmental Temperature on CO2 Absorption Rate During Plant Photosynthesis | CSEF | 1st Place |
| 1st | Michelle Wei | Mathematical Sciences: Cycle Spaces of Friends-and-Strangers Graphs | CSEF | 1st Place |
| Math Teacher's Achievement Awards | Senior Division Mathematical Sciences Awward | |||
| 1st | Vince Wu | Zoology: Development of a Predictive Model of Honey Bee Foraging Activity Under Different Climate Conditions | CSEF | 1st Place |
| CSEF | Qualified for ISEF | |||
| 1st | Samuel Yuan | Computational Systems & Analysis: Leveraging Genetic Algorithms and Mathematical Wildfire Propagation Models to Determine Optimal Firebreak Placement | CSEF | 1st Place |
| Math Teacher's Achievement Awards | Senior Division Computational Systems & Analysis Award | |||
| 2nd | Anchal Bhardwaj | Computational Systems & Analysis: A Novel End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Model to Improve Tonal Pronunciation in Mandarin for Non-Native Speakers | CSEF | 2nd Place |
| 2nd | Adyant Bhavsar | Alternative Energy: From Waste to Wattage: Converting Wasted Mechanical Energy into Electricity Through Triboelectrification and Electrostatic Induction | CSEF | 2nd Place |
| 2nd | Jeanelle Dao | Environmental Engineering: FilterEye: Energy-Saving Embedded Electronic Device to Alert User to Change Air Filter | CSEF | 2nd Place |
| A&WMA Environmental Leadership Awards | Junior Division Environmental Engineering Award | |||
| South Coast AQMD Air Quality Awards | Junior Division Air Quality Award | |||
| 2nd | Agastya Goel | Mathematical Sciences: RSK-Complete Cycle Decompositions | CSEF | 2nd Place |
| 2nd | Maryam Hashmi | Chemistry: The Effect of Bile Salts on Digestion | CSEF | 2nd Place |
| 2nd | Sumayyah Ismail | Computational Systems & Analysis: A Novel End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Model to Improve Tonal Pronunciation in Mandarin for Non-Native Speakers | CSEF | 2nd Place |
| 2nd | Ritik Jalisatgi | Computational Systems: Theia: Assistive Environmental Communication via Audio Patterns for the Visually Impaired | CSEF | 2nd Place |
| IRI Human Subjects Research Awards | Second Place IRI Award | |||
| 2nd | Shripriya Kalbhavi | Microbiology: The Effect of Phytochemicals Present in Spices on the Inhibition of Tumor Growth induced by Agrobacterium tumefaciens | CSEF | 2nd Place |
| 2nd | Kashish Kapoor | Cognitive Science: Using a Convolutional Neural Network to Classify the Progression of Alzheimer's Patients MRI's. | CSEF | 2nd Place |
| 2nd | Andrew Liang | Zoology: BeeWell: Developing an AI-based Bee Health Assessment System Utilizing Computer Vision and Acoustic Signal Processing | CSEF | 2nd Place |
| 2nd | Alexander Mehta | Computational Systems: Theia: Assistive Environmental Communication via Audio Patterns for the Visually Impaired | CSEF | 2nd Place |
| IRI Human Subjects Research Awards | Second Place IRI Award | |||
| 2nd | Daniel Siegel | Electronics & Electromagnetics: OctoGrasp: The Design and Construction of a Cephalopod-Inspired Prosthetic Arm | CSEF | 2nd Place |
| 3rd | Diana Bajdechi | Electronics & Electromagnetics: Breathing Sensor for Remote Medicine | CSEF | 3rd Place |
| 3rd | Sasha Balasingam | Behavioral & Social Sciences: Testing Shank 3-deficient C. elegans as an Autism model on repetitive/social deficits from my last study on NLG-1 mutant | CSEF | 3rd Place |
| 3rd | Alexandra Chatwin | Chemistry: Accessible Synthesis of the Tricyclic Core of Forskolin as an Adenylyl Cyclase Activator against Cellular Senescence | CSEF | 3rd Place |
| 3rd | Venice Parnell | Materials Science: The Future of Clothing: Turning Waste into Vegan Leather | CSEF | 3rd Place |
| 3rd | Sarah Su | Chemistry: Accessible Synthesis of the Tricyclic Core of Forskolin as an Adenylyl Cyclase Activator against Cellular Senescence | CSEF | 3rd Place |
| 3rd | Sonia Swamy | Environmental Engineering: Curb-AD: Effect of Fenchol-Based Treatments on Reduction of ETS-induced Neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's Disease Pathology | CSEF | 3rd Place |
| 3rd | Gauri Todur | Physics & Astronomy: Finding Galaxies Beyond: Vision Transformer Based Gravitational Lens Search Model Using Synthetic Data | CSEF | 3rd Place |
| 3rd | Claire Xu | Materials Science: The Future of Clothing: Turning Waste into Vegan Leather | CSEF | 3rd Place |
| 3rd | Ella Yee | Product Science: Slow the Beat Down | CSEF | 3rd Place |
| 4th | Anya Bharti | Product Science: SFDIPS - Smart Fall Detection and Injury Prevention System | CSEF | 4th Place |
| 4th | Krishna Bhatt | Electronics & Electromagnetics: A Wearable Auto-balance Device to Prevent Falling for People with Balancing Dysfunctions | CSEF | 4th Place |
| 4th | Siddhartha Daswani | Environmental Engineering: A Novel AI Pipeline for Predicting Next Day Wildfire Spread | CSEF | 4th Place |
| 4th | Rohan Pal | Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology: Observing the Effects of Different Concentrations of CBD on Cancer in Drosophila Model | CSEF | 4th Place |
| 4th | Henry Yao | Environmental Engineering: From Food Waste to Food Guard: Creating a Novel Chitosan Bioplastic with Nanoparticle Coating, and Its Unique Effect on Water Resistance and Food Preservation | CSEF | 4th Place |
| 4th | Nicki Yazdi | Product Science: SFDIPS - Smart Fall Detection and Injury Prevention System | CSEF | 4th Place |
| HM | Ziya Ahmad | Environmental Engineering: Creating an AI Robot for Collecting and Recognizing Aluminum Cans to Reduce Beach Pollution | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Sneha Arun | Electronics & Electromagnetics: The Heat Mapper: A Device to Measure Albedo | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Snikitha Banda | Computational Systems: Early Survival and Recurrence Prediction for Diabetes Patients via Biomarker Discovery in Text-Based Clinical Narratives | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Orchita Chakraborty | Cognitive Science: Prognosis of Alzheimer's Disease using Machine Learning and The Virtual Brain Simulations | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Ryan Co | Applied Mechanics & Structures: Drone Braiding: A Lightweight Approach to Space Manufacturing | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Vivan Doshi | Computational Systems & Analysis: Un-Distracted - App That Prevents Distracted Driving through Facial and Spatial Recognition using CNNs | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Jeremy Flint | Applied Mechanics & Structures: Drone Braiding: A Lightweight Approach to Space Manufacturing | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Serena Gandhi | Electronics & Electromagnetics: NOSI (Novel Odor Sensing Intelligence) & ROSI (Reconnaissance Operations Security Intelligence) Controller - Responder Robots for Airport Security Operations | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Cadence Ho | Plant Biology: Investigating the effects of bee salivary enzymes on incised Brassica rapa maturation | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Saanchi Kapoor | Chemistry: A novel aqueous approach for the synthesis of palladium nanoparticles | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Netra Khot | Environmental Engineering: Creating an AI Robot for Collecting and Recognizing Aluminum Cans to Reduce Beach Pollution | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Ryan Kim | Computational Systems & Analysis: BeeSafe: Detecting Bee Diseases with Multi-Scale Object Detection and Generative Adversarial Networks | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Anish Kosaraju | Behavioral & Social Sciences: A Novel Machine Learning Approach to Preventing Account Takeovers for Enhanced Cybersecurity | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Brandon Labio | Applied Mechanics & Structures: PathFinder: A Smart Retrieval Robot for Optimal Sports Training Efficiency | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Nandana Maheskumar | Environmental Engineering: Weather Agnostic Farming: An Innovative Revenue Generating Way to Protect Crops from Extreme Weather | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Devshree Mistry | Chemistry: Colorful Chromatography | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Divij Motwani | Computational Systems & Analysis: Ankh - Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance for the Visually Impaired | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Sophia Nguyen | Toxicology: The effects of artificial flavorings on intestinal barrier permeability in Drosophila melanogaster | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Hiranya Parekh | Applied Mechanics & Structures: A Novel Design for a Robotic Electromechanically Controlled Injection Mechanism | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Roshni Parulekar-Martins | Computational Systems: RandomRibo: A Novel Tool for Transcript-Level Ribosome Velocity Determinant Identification With Single Codon Resolution | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Aman Puri | Environmental Engineering: Smart Trash Can | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Ryan Ruien Zhang | Environmental Engineering: PEDS-AI: A Novel Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based Artificial Intelligence Powered Visual-Acoustic Pest Early Detection and Identification System for Field Deployment and Surveillance | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Kourosh Shahid | Environmental Engineering: Smart Trash Can | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Obin Song | Environmental Engineering: Smart Trash Can | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Kshitij Teotia | Microbiology (General): SMILES Encoding and Deep Learning to Predict Quantitative Efficacy of Structurally Distinct Molecules for Antibiotics | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Aleksey Valouev | Environmental Engineering: A Novel AI-Powered Network of Sensors with Wireless Data Transmission for Real-Time Wildfire Detection | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Iona Xia | Physics & Astronomy: Discovering Rare Ca II Quasar Absorption Lines with a Neural Network | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Nathan Yee | Applied Mechanics & Structures: PathFinder: A Smart Retrieval Robot for Optimal Sports Training Efficiency | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| HM | Ethan Zuo | Electronics & Electromagnetics: Autonomous, Self-Balancing Bicycle for Urban delivery and Community Connection | CSEF | Honorable Mention |
| Sponsored Award | Rohan Bhowmik | Environmental Engineering: A Multi-Modal Wildfire Prediction and Personalized Early-Warning System | South Coast AQMD Air Quality Awards | Senior Division Air Quality Award |
| Sponsored Award | Ella Lan | Computational Systems (Medical): HDformer: A Higher Dimensional Transformer for Diabetes Detection Utilizing Long Range Vascular Signals | UCLA Brain Research Institute Awarda | Senior Division First Place Award |
