Harker School-Upper Campus

Project Awards 2023

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Harker School-Upper Campus	Anita	Chetty	Melody	Yin	Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Investigating Sequence Determinants and Their Role in Drosophila Gene Expression using Deep Learning (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	10
	Anuradha	Datar	Krish	Arora	$100 and a Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award	FindMySpace: A Cost Effective Carbon Reduction Solution for Parking Using Deep Learning and Edge Devices. (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
			Andrew	Liang	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	BeeWell: Developing an AI-based Bee Health Assessment System Utilizing Computer Vision and Acoustic Signal Processing (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
					Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
			Yuqin	Ma	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Building a CNN model to efficiently diagnose COVID-19 from other viral infections using cough MFCCs (Biological Science and Engineering)	9
			Lily	Shi	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Developing a Novel Diagnostic System of Glaucoma Using a Multi-Task Deep Learning Architecture (Biological Science and Engineering)	9
			Linda	Zeng	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	A Generative-Adversarial Approach to Translating Low-Resource Languages with Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
	Eric	Johnson	Reshma	Kosaraju	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Quantification and Optimization of Circular RNA Stability for Improved RNA Therapeutics (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category
					$375 Cash Prize Voucher from Society for Science and Certificate, Regeneron Biomedical Science Award
	Eric	Nelson	Chiling	Han	Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category	SSGeoLocator- Finding Geographic Coordinates from a non-GPS Approach/Geopositioning Using Street Name Plates (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Alexander Y	Lan	1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	A Novel Twin Convolutional Neural Network to Decipher the Functional Effect of Genetic Variants in Alzheimer's Disease (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Ella Selina	Lan	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	HDformer: A Higher Dimensional Transformer for Diabetes Detection Utilizing Long Range Vascular Signals (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
	Marina	Peregrino	Aishani	Singh	$500 Grand Prize, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards	LiveConv: AI Enabled Live Conversation Across Language Barriers on Augmented Reality Glasses (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					Excellence in Engineering Science (all grades) $250, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"
			Ryan Ruien	Zhang	Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	PEDS-AI: A Novel UAV Based AI Powered Visual-Acoustic Field Deployed Pest Early Detection and Identification System (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
	Mike	Pistacchi	Ramit Rajan	Goyal	2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Developing a model to predict whether single nucleotide variants are likely benign or pathogenic (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
	Chris	Spenner	Rohan Tan	Bhowmik	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	A Multi-Modal Wildfire Prediction and Early-Warning System Based on a Novel Machine Learning Framework (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Tiffany	Chang	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Crucial Pathogenic Role of Elevated Mast Cells in Pulmonary Fibrosis Revealed by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	12
					1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category
			Arjun	Gurjar	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	The Effect of Clemastine Fumarate on C. elegans in a Hyperglycemic Model of PAD related Oxidative Stress (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Michelle	Wei	Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category	Cycle Spaces of Friends-and-strangers Graphs (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Ella Lindsey	Yee	1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Developing a Novel Hybrid Approach to Extract Circadian Gene Signatures and Uncover Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
	Jeff	Sutton	Cyrus	Ghane	1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards HS	A Novel Utilization of Ocimum basilicum Mucilage to Reduce Nitrate Runoff (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
					Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize
			Isha	Kotalwar	Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Using 1D CNNs to Classify Heart Arrhythmia from Electrocardiogram Signals (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Kairui	Sun	1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards HS	A Novel Utilization of Ocimum basilicum Mucilage to Reduce Nitrate Runoff (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
					Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize