Harker School-Upper Campus
Project Awards 2020
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Thomas | Artiss | Sasvath M | Ramachandran | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determining the UVA Intensity Threshold for Cryptobiosis in Hypsibius dujardini (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | |||||||
| Betsy | Tian | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Exploring Extrasolar Planetary Systems with Ultraviolet Eyes (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Martin | Baynes | Dawson | Chen | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Autonomous Irrigation Robot for Urban Grass Ecosystems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| GR 9-12: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Mark | Brada | Alice | Feng | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Genetic Study of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Cells with Gemcitabine Resistance and Benzo[a]pyrene Exposure (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Casey | Brown | Michael Chen | Eng | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Role of Host Cell Receptors in the Uptake of the Fungus Candida albicans. Year 2 (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anita | Chetty | Aditi | Bharti | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Studying the Permanent Effects of Antibiotics on Fruit Flies to Emulate Its Effects on Human Neurological Disorders (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Sidra Yang | Xu | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Gene Embedding: A Novel Hybrid Approach to Somatic Mutation-Based Cancer Type Identification and Biomarker Discovery (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anu | Datar | Karanvir Singh | Bhasin | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Human Decision-Making Models in Games with Time Pressure and Partial Information (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Kailash Mani | Ranganathan | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Improved Word Embedding Algorithms for Machine Translation of Indo-European Languages using Clustering (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Nicholas | Yi | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Logographic Language Detection and Recognition using a Deep Learning Approach (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Matthew | Harley | Annesh | Ghosh Dastidar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Deep Learning Approach to Automated Lung Cancer Radiation Planning Using GTV with Organ-at-Risk Accommodation (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Smriti | Koodanjeri | Sophie Meiyang | Wang | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | A novel automated differentiation framework and its applications in accurate and fast reacting flow simulations (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Eric | Nelson | Shray | Alag | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Insights from ClinicalTrials.gov by mining mutations, mining RSids, and applying the Human Phenotype Ontology. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Julia | Biswas | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Estimating Gut Microbiome Diversity in Mice from Microscopic Images Using a Deep Learning Approach (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sally | Zhu | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Supporting the Big Bang Theory by Measuring Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation in Distant Galaxies (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Mike | Pistacchi | Emma | Biswas | Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | The Effect of the Temperature Increase Over 300 Years on the Growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Using Micrococcus luteus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Amruta | Dharmapurikar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning Aided Classification and Mechanical Sorting of Waste Material (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Arissa | Huda | Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | The Effect of the Temperature Increase Over 300 Years on the Growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Using Micrococcus luteus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Chris | Spenner | Akhilesh | Chegu | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Behavioral and Physiological Analysis of the Effect of Chronic Blue Light Exposure on Cognitive Motor Learning in Mice (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Cynthia | Chen | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) as a finalist in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, California Science & Engineering Fair | Decoding Neural Networks: Generalizable Computational Framework to Discover Protein Sequence Motifs (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Harsh | Deep | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Carcinomas. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Madison Baothi | Huynh | 2nd Place Award - $250 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS | Formation of Biologically Renewable Jet Fuel from 1-Hexene Cross-Metathesized Saltwater Plant Oils (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Andrew | Lu | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Fully Automated Prostate Cancer Classification to Address Extensive Underdiagnosis by Physicians (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Krishay | Mukhija | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Carcinomas. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kavita S | Murthy | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Efficiency of Permeability of Escherichia coli to Different Macromolecules Via Ultrasonic Waves (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Deven C | Shah | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Behavioral and Physiological Analysis of the Effect of Chronic Blue Light Exposure on Cognitive Motor Learning in Mice (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Elizabeth | Szeto | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Bioplastic Using Biopolymer Blending and Crosslinking Techniques to Replace LDPE Plastics for Packaging (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Thresiamma Jijen | Vazhaeparambil | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Quantitative Measurement of Microplastics from Laundry Detergents and Fabric Samples using Fluorescence Spectroscopy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Russell | Yang | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Modeling Distant Metastasis-Free Survival: Applications to Hazard Prediction and Pairwise Gene Interaction Discovery (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jeff | Sutton | Aditya | Tadimeti | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Machine Learning and Wildfire Burned Area: Examining the Influence of Weather, Topographic, and Socioeconomic Factors (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||