East Side Union High School District

Project Awards 2021

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Evergreen Valley High School  Alice Li  Saurish  Srivastava Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter A Novel Unsupervised Approach Leveraging CNNs to Accurately Classify Brain Cancer Survival via Histopathological Images (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
   Brian LoBue  Shreyaa  Karan Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Cranial Hemorrhage - Sectionalization & Ascertaining the Non-Contrast CT Scans using Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              Certificate of Achievement and letter - medallion and cert will be received in mail after student fills out the online link, Yale Science and Engineering Association    
   Scott Lubbs  Tejas Satyavrat Prabhune Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Dataset-Agnostic Vessel Segmentation of Retinal Fundus Images by a Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
   Rebecca Taylor  Aditya  Shrinivasan Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category In silico analysis using pyrimethamine as a therapy for mutated Hex-A gene in Tay Sachs Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
Independence High School  Larry Winterlin  Mihir  Baviskar Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Suryabhan  Mohapatra Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Andy  Phung Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
Oak Grove High School  Jennifer Claudio  Thy  Pham Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch Factors in Traffic Safety in Suburban Roads (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
        Reese Edward Wiitala Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Using Memory Metals for Small Satellite Array Deployment (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
Piedmont Hills High School  Katherine Thornberry  Himani  Manjunath Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Using Plant Root Starch and Biopolymer Aqueous Solution to Reduce Soil Erosion (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering    
              2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter    
Santa Teresa High School  Channy Cornejo  Marek  Pinto Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Diagnosing and Classifying Aphasia: Employing Linguistic Deep Learning to Accelerate Recovery in Aphasic Stroke Victims (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category    
Silver Creek High School  Bich Nguyen  Vedant V Janapaty Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School An accessible, low cost tool for citizen scientists: Using remote sensing techniques to predict fire damage propensity (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
Yerba Buena High School  Chung Khong  Muhammed Majid Shah Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Airplane extravaganza (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category