ISEF, the International Science & Engineering Fair, returned this year with 1600 finalists participating both in-person and virtually with the sponsorship of Regeneron. Finalists represented 49 states and 63 countries. Congratulations to all the participants from the Synopsys Championship and to the award winners announced on May 18 (special awards) and May 19 (scientific category awards).
Special congratulations to Kaitlyn Wang for her ISEF top award, the George D. Yancopoulos Innovator Award, as the finalist who was selected on the basis of outstanding and innovative research, as well as on the potential impact of the work — in the field and on the world at large. Her project in Physics and Astronomy/Astronomy and Cosmology is Discovery of the Smallest Ever Ultra-Short-Period Planet Using Novel Phase Folding Detection System Parallelized on a Cheap GPU.
| Student | Scientific Category | Awarding Organization | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snikitha Banda | Translational Medical Science/Disease Detection and Diagnosis | ISEF | Second Award of $2,000 |
| Roy Gross | Embedded Systems/Signal Processing | ISEF | Third Award of $1,000 |
| Office of Naval Research on behalf of the United States Navy and Marine Corps | Chief of Naval Research Scholarship Award of $15,000 | ||
| Air Force Research Laboratory on behalf of the United States Air Force | First Award of $750 | ||
| Qorvo | Third Award Innovator Scholarship $1,000 | ||
| Patent and Trademark Office Society | Second Award of $500 | ||
| Reshma Kosaraju | Cellular and Molecular Biology/Molecular Biology | ISEF | Second Award of $2,000 |
| Ella Selina Lan | Translational Medical Science/Disease Detection and Diagnosis | ISEF | Second Award of $2,000 |
| Shanghai Youth Science Education Society | Science Seed Award | ||
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | First Award of $1,500 | ||
| Roshni Martins | Computational Biology and Bioinformatics/Computational Biomodeling | ISEF | Second Award of $2,000 |
| Daniel Siegel | Biomedical Engineering/Biomedical Devices | ISEF | Second Award of $2,000 |
| Gauri Todur | Physics and Astronomy/Astronomy and Cosmology | University of Arizona | Four Year Renewal Tuition Scholarship of $10,000 |
| Kaitlyn Wang | Physics and Astronomy/Astronomy and Cosmology | ISEF | George D. Yancopoulos Innovator Award of $75,000 |
| ISEF | First Place Award of $5,000 | ||
| Vince Wu | Animal Sciences | ISEF | Fourth Place Award of $500 |
