ISEF, the International Science & Engineering Fair, visited Los Angeles, CA this year with 1600 finalists participating 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 16 (special awards) and May 17 (scientific category awards).
Special congratulations to Michelle Wei for her ISEF top award, the Regeneron Young Scientist Award, as the finalist who was selected for her commitment to innovation in tackling challenging scientific questions, using authentic research practices and creating solutions to the problems of tomorrow. Her project in Systems Software is Solving Second-Order Cone Programs in Matrix Multiplication Time. She also joins Andrew Liang in being a “First Award” winner for their innovative research. His project in Behavioral and Social Sciences is GaitNet: A Medically Interpretable Video-Based System for Assessing Parkinsonian Gait Impairment Severity Using 2-Stream Spatiotemporal Neural Network.
| Student | Scientific Category | Awarding Organization | Award |
| Vrishank Chandrasekhar | Translational Medical Science | ISEF | Fourth Award of $500 |
| Raghav Garimella | Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | ISEF | Third Award of $1,000 |
| Armaan Gomes | Biomedical Engineering | ISEF | Third Award of $1,000 |
| Khedaar Kashyap | Physics and Astronomy | ISEF | Third Award of $1,000 |
| Serving Society Through Science | Second Award of $500 | ||
| Andrew Liang | Behavioral and Social Sciences | ISEF | First Award of $5,000 |
| Long Island University | Presidential Scholarship | ||
| The University of Texas at Dallas | Scholarship award of $5,000 per year | ||
| Yuqin Ma | Earth and Environmental Sciences | ISEF | Second Award of $2,000 |
| China Association for Science and Technology | Award of $1,200 | ||
| Diana Martynova | Systems Software | International Council on Systems Engineering | Award of $1,000 and Honorable Mention |
| Gauri Todur | Physics and Astronomy | ISEF | Third Award of $1,000 |
| Michelle Wei | Systems Software | ISEF | First Award of $5,000 |
| ISEF | Regeneron Young Scientist Award of $50,000 | ||
| China Association for Science and Technology | Award of $1,200 | ||
| National Security Agency Research Directorate | First Award Principles of Security and Privacy | ||
| Ella Yee | Biomedical and Health Sciences | ISEF | Third Award of $1,000 |
