Harker School-Upper Campus
Project Awards 2017
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Gary | Blickenstaff | Akhil | Arun | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Machine Learning Based Approach to Skin Lesion Segmentation using Superpixels (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Divija Anantasai | Bhimaraju | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determining the Effect of the Age of the Environment on the Incidence of Cellular Senescence (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Cynthia | Chen | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fighting Malnutrition: Automated Optimization of Nutrition Using Novel n-Dimensional Linear Programming Models. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Jeffrey | Fung | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Variations in Salinity and Growth Effects ofthe Marine Microalga Nannochloropsis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Aarzu | Gupta | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Efficacy of Combinations of Plant Based Natural Antibiotics in Aiding the Fight Against Superbugs (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Richard | Hu | Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | The Impact of Solar Plants on Microclimate (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Allison Sihan | Jia | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using EEG to Analyze Common High School Distractions While Studying (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Karena | Kong | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Traffic Network Management: Novel Approach Using a Deep-Learning System Driven by Dynamic Data (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Eileen | Li | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Addressing the Global Landfill Problem: A Novel Automatic Waste Sorting Algorithm Based on Machine Learning Methods (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Millie | Lin | Certificate and nomination to enter 2018 Sustainability Soutions Festival in Arizona, Arizona State University Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives | The Prevalence of Parent-Teacher Interactions and their Influence on Student Outcomes in Developing Countries (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Emily | Liu | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Addressing the Global Landfill Problem: A Novel Automatic Waste Sorting Algorithm Based on Machine Learning Methods (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Neelesh Krishna | Ramachandran | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determining the Effect of the Age of the Environment on the Incidence of Cellular Senescence (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Maya | Shukla | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Efficacy of Combinations of Plant Based Natural Antibiotics in Aiding the Fight Against Superbugs (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Sahana Gorantla | Srinivasan | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Machine Learning Based Approach to Skin Lesion Segmentation using Superpixels (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Jasmine Kimberly | Wiese | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using EEG to Analyze Common High School Distractions While Studying (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Catherinez | Zhao | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Variations in Salinity and Growth Effects ofthe Marine Microalga Nannochloropsis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| David | Casso | Krish | Kapadia | $ 500 to the winning student or team in high school Bio Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | The Use of Salivary Proteins as Novel Biomarkers for Concussion (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anjay | Saklecha | $ 500 to the winning student or team in high school Bio Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | The Use of Salivary Proteins as Novel Biomarkers for Concussion (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ruhi | Sayana | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Exploitation of Cell Survival Mechanisms to Induce Apoptosis for High-Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Katherine | Tian | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Seizure Prediction Using Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kevin | Xu | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | Modeling the Dual Effect of Governmental Aid and Hospital Subsidization on Hospital Performance: An Affordable Care Act (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Raymond | Xu | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | Modeling the Dual Effect of Governmental Aid and Hospital Subsidization on Hospital Performance: An Affordable Care Act (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Katherine Feifei | Zhang | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Seizure Prediction Using Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Anu | Datar | Kaushik | Shivakumar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Machine-Learning Approach to Correlate Environmental and Demographic Factors to Cancer Incidences Across US Counties (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Certificate and nomination to enter 2018 Sustainability Soutions Festival in Arizona, Arizona State University Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives | |||||||
| Kelly | Horan | Shreyas | Chandrashekaran | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Age on Distracted Driving Reaction Times (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Certificate of Achievement, United States Public Health Service | |||||||
| Robbie | Korin | Shaya | Zarkesh | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A Novel Approach to Semantic Parsing of Mathematical Word Problems with Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Eric | Nelson | Jerry | Chen | High school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, ONR Medallion, and form for $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Modeling the Internal Rotation and Dispersion of Distant Galaxies (z ~ 1.0) Using Multi-PA Keck DEIMOS Slit Spectra (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Amy | Dunphy | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Ditch the Keyboard: A Novel Touchless Input Scheme (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Amy | Jin | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Deep learning-based automated tool detection and analysis of surgical videos to assess operative skill (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, IBM Award | |||||||
| Cameron Cole | Jones | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Intelligent Hearing Aids: Improving Speech Intelligibility and Separation in Noisy Environments through Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Scott | Pflaumer | Arnav Sameer | Joshi | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A novel system for detecting COPD, asthma, and other obstructive lung diseases early in low-resource environments (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Chris | Spenner | Rishab Srinivasan | Gargeya | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | EyeLogic: All-Purpose Vision Disease Detection in Clinic-Sourced and Low-Cost Smartphone-Based Retinal Images (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anastasiya | Grebin | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Common crop higher plant growth impairment from human pharmaceuticals present in surface water. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Jimmy | Lin | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Automated Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A Novel Assessment of Tumor-Associated Stroma Using Deep Learning Algorithms (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Rajiv | Movva | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning-Based Discovery of Synergistic Drug Combinations for Rapid and Effective Cancer Treatment (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sandip | Nirmel | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Biological Pump in a Changing Climate: Identifying Drivers of Sinking of Antarctic Phytoplankton and Ice Algae (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Evani | Radiya-Dixit | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Identification of Therapeutic Cancer Targets Across Adenocarcinomas Using Genome-wide DNA Methylation Analyses (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Manan Ajay | Shah | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Deep Learning Assessment of Tumor Proliferation in Histological Images for Comprehensive Breast Cancer Severity Analysis (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, IBM Award | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Arjun | Subramaniam | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | CadML: Computational Antibody Design Through Deep Learning and Structural Protein Analysis (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Jeff | Sutton | Maddie | Huynh | 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Effects of Runoff Water on Aquatic Plants (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Michelle | Kwan | 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Effects of Runoff Water on Aquatic Plants (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Carolyn | Lu | 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Effects of Runoff Water on Aquatic Plants (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||