Fremont Union High School District

Project Awards 2020

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Cupertino High School  Bruce Cheung  Rishikesh  Anand Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category An Autonomous Bioinspired Machine Designed to Clean Up Trash Using Synthetic Octopus Suction and Gecko-Based Adhesion (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
   Eric Ferrante  Vardhan Kishore Agrawal Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Automated Assessment of Spaceflight-Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome via Incidence of Papilledema and Cotton-Wool Spots (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
        Bidipta  Sarkar Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category Data Compression Through Empirical Approximations of Kolmogorov Complexity (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 12
   Terri Hannigan  Ashwika  Agrawal Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Automated Diagnosis of Infections in Piercings using Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
        Krithika  Venkatasubramanian Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair The effect of Parkinson's Disease and the Addition of Cholesterol and Wax Esters on the Phase Transition of Human Tears (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
              1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category    
   Ted McLeod  Anav Huzefa Mehta Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair ARChessAnalyzer: Augmented Reality Chess Analyzer Using In-Device Deep Learning Inference Of Physical Chess Positions (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Shashank  Venkatramani 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category A novel mobile app to prevent proliferation of counterfeit medications and reduce DDIs, using SVM and Machine Learning. (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
   Kent Paris  Eileen  Ho 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering 3D Printing of Carbon Aerogels for Supercapacitors (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
        Meera  Suresh 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering 3D Printing of Carbon Aerogels for Supercapacitors (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 12
              IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
        Benjamin M. Wu GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award Ball on Plate Control - PID and Neural Self-Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
   Amy Plat  Aditya  Rao Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effect Of Magnetism On The Growth of Pea Plants (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
        Arihan  Yadav Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effect Of Magnetism On The Growth of Pea Plants (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
   Amanda Slowikowski  Rohan  Tirumala Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair The Effects of Curcumin, Nicotinamide and Tomatidine on the Charcot-Marie-Tooth 2A Disease (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 9
              1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category    
   Hugo Steemers  Gargi Harshwardhan Deshpande Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Detection of Seizure and Fainting Occurrences and Emergency Contact Through a Wearable Device (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
        Avani  Karvat Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Detection of Seizure and Fainting Occurrences and Emergency Contact Through a Wearable Device (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
        Kristine Soohyun McLaughlin Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Detection of Seizure and Fainting Occurrences and Emergency Contact Through a Wearable Device (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
        Sohom Kumar Roy Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Drone, Mobile Robot, Tech-Augmented Cockroach, and Crowdsourced System to Find Survivors in Disaster Stricken Areas (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
Fremont High School  Virginia McCabe  Aryia  Dattamajumdar ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award Fires from Space: A robust synthetic control method and robotic system for wildfire management (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
Homestead High School  Sam Fung  Josh  Sanyal 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 Weakly Supervised LSTM RNNs for Longitudinal Breast Cancer Recurrence Prediction via Unstructured Clinical Narratives (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category    
   John Shelby  Vivek  Bharati Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Deep Learning System to Detect Sleeping Position Outside Stressors and Alert for Preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
   Ed Taylor  Anirudh  Venkatraman 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category A Novel Device to Detect Infection of Wounds (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
              $100 for Individual projects. $50 for each student for Team Projects, IBM Award    
   Jessica Wakefield  Anushka  Sanyal 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 Intronic RNA as a Therapeutic Target in Neurodegeneration: A Multipronged Study of RNA Lariat Debranching Enzyme DBR1 (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    
Lynbrook High School  Nicole DellaSantina  Shailesh  Senthil Kumar 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Identification of a Novel Causative Agent and its Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
   Jeremy Dybdahl  Alexander  Zhang Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Design of an inflatable mesh of variable geometry for medical or architectural applications, using differential geometry (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
   Bradley Fulk  Anant  Bhatia Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter A novel intelligent drone navigation system for safe autonomous flight using a deep convolutional LSTM neural network (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Tim  Jing Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Predicting Pandemics: Optimizing Prophylactic Models for MDR-TB, SARS, MERS, and other Potential Respiratory Pandemics (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
              1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category    
        Allen Liu Ye Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter A novel intelligent drone navigation system for safe autonomous flight using a deep convolutional LSTM neural network (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
   Kenneth Iams  Pranav  Kakhandiki ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award Determining Organ Degeneration using Bio-Terminal Polarity (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
   Mark Kwong  Kento  Nishi Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category BlankSort - A Novel Unsupervised Approach to Keyword Extraction (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
   Larry Laskowski  Ishan  Goyal 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Pin & Post: A solution to wildfires using a mobile application to profile hazardous vegetation growth near utility poles (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
              $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award    
              IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
        Aditya  Sharma 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Pin & Post: A solution to wildfires using a mobile application to profile hazardous vegetation growth near utility poles (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
              $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award    
              IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
   Lester Leung  Claire  Chen Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Using Traction force microscopy to test Taxol's side effect on cellular force generation (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Chinmay K Lalgudi Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Designing a Novel Gene Entropy-Based Leukocyte Signature Matrix to Predict Tumor Composition (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 12
              1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category    
   Kathleen Loia  Sophia En Khubchandani 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Creating a Novel, Non-toxic, and Efficient Ice Pack using INA Ice Nucleation Proteins from Pseudomonas Syringae (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Kavya Manasa Pandrangi Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Devising a filtration system for kitchen exhaust vents to reduce the effect of harmful pollutants outdoors (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Andrew  Peng Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch Sustainable water filtration for rural communities (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Jason  Shan 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Sunglasses with proximity sensors for people who are visually impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
        Sean  Su 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Sunglasses with proximity sensors for people who are visually impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
        Harita  Sunkara Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category An Innovative Method of Flood Detection at Homes (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Akshara  Taraniganty Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Devising a filtration system for kitchen exhaust vents to reduce the effect of harmful pollutants outdoors (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Aaron  Yan Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch Sustainable water filtration for rural communities (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Xintong (Alice)  Ye Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category An Innovative Method of Flood Detection at Homes (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Catherine  Zhou 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Creating a Novel, Non-toxic, and Efficient Ice Pack using INA Ice Nucleation Proteins from Pseudomonas Syringae (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
   Jessica Lu  Neha  Mannem Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Employing Enzymatic Degradation within a Novel, Mobile Machine to Remove Microplastics from Aquatic Environments (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Charu  Vijay Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Employing Enzymatic Degradation within a Novel, Mobile Machine to Remove Microplastics from Aquatic Environments (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
   Thanh Nguyen  Flora  Huang Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Effect of BMP-9 on BMPR2 and CES1 expression in relation to pulmonary arterial hypertension (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
              1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category    
        William  Huang Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair A Novel Method for the Detection of Black Holes Using the Signature Flare of a Tidal Disruption Event (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Grace  Kuo 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Early Diagnosis and Characterization of Sepsis Using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Andrew  Yuan 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Early Diagnosis and Characterization of Sepsis Using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
        Michael Lichao Yuan Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Smart Agricultural Ad Hoc Network System (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
              GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award    
        Michael  Zhao 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Early Diagnosis and Characterization of Sepsis Using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
   Isaac Pallone  Avantika  Gokulnatha Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Exploring the Evolution and Function of NPG1 Gene through Tomato Domestication History (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Eshani  Jha 1st Place Award - $400 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS Thiol Functionalized and Manganese Dioxide Doped Biochar for Removal of Inorganic and Organic Contaminants from Water (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category    
   Annie Reynolds  Anya  Chatterjee Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair The Effect of Microplastics on the Development of Freshwater and Land Plants (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
              Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $150 and Certificate (GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"    
   David Taylor  Joseph  Zhang Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Secret Sharing for Attorney-Client Data in a Multi-Provider Cloud Architecture (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
Monta Vista High School  Sushma Bana  Dinesh Kumar Thirumavalavan ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award Using a convolution LSTM-based deep neural network to accurately identify and classify hate speech on Twitter. (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
   Pamela Chow  Christine  Xu 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category How does isolation affect a Drosophila's ability to learn mazes (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
   Katie Collins  Fiona Lin Luo 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 Identification of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides with Designed Activity through a QSAR Based Machine Learning Model (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
   John Conlin  Divya  Venkataraman Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Picture Perfect Diet: An app to classify food products, with OCR, for recommending substitutes based on a chosen diet (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award    
   Scott DeRuiter  Niranjan  Bhatia Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Detection and classification of recyclable items to help recyclable facility robots identify and pick them up correctly (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
        Brandon  Guo Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Hamiltonian Cycles Generating Eulerian Polytopes: A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Ojas Mahavir Karnavat Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Designing a public alert system that provides available exit routes when fire is detected in an enterprise facility (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award    
        Minjeong  Kim 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Detecting Pain in Children with Autism using 68 Points on Facial Expressions (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Suhas  Prasad Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Hamiltonian Cycles Generating Eulerian Polytopes: A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Chaitra  Raghupathi Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category What Properties of DNA Sequencing Reads Determine the Optimal K-mer Size for De Bruijn Graph Construction? (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
        Gautham  Raghupathi Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category What Properties of DNA Sequencing Reads Determine the Optimal K-mer Size for De Bruijn Graph Construction? (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Mahit Vishnusai Tanikella $100 for Individual projects. $50 for each student for Team Projects, IBM Award Automatic Quantification of Lymphocytes as Prognostic Marker in Cancer Tissue (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
   Renee Fallon  Myung Suh  Choi 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The capabilities of various phytochemicals to inhibit bacterial quorum sensing modeled by Serratia Marcescens (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Malavika  Eby 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Effect of Varying Levels of Apoptosis on the Efficacy of Phenytoin in Seizure-Susceptible Drosophila (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Anoushka  Lakshmi Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effects of the Azadirachtin on the Reproductive Rates of Daphnia Pulex (water flea) (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Sophia W. Liu 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The effect of a metalloprotease inhibitor on the molting and mortality of C. elegans as an anti-aneurysmal growth model (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Atmaja  Patil Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Effects of food waste addition to broth of Rhizobium Leguminosarum and its capacity to raise interest in biofertilizers (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Jonah  Tien Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Brainteract: An Integrated Improvement Aiding Brain-Computer-Interfaces and Disabilities Using Visual-Evoked Stimuli (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Kelly Hui-Chin Tung Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Investigating the Functions of xpa-1 and him-1 Genes in UV Resistance of Caenorhabditis elegans by Combinatorial RNAi (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
   David Greenstein  Janya  Budaraju 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Using Natural Language Processing to More Effectively Conduct Qualitative Mental Health Research (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
        Safaa Aicha Mouline Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category A Customizable Voice that Improves Comprehension of Speech for Children with Language Impairments (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
   Kyle Jones  Sanjana S Jilla Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Identifying Lead-free Perovskites Using Machine Learning for High Efficiency Solar Cells (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Avani  Kulshreshtha 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category What is the effect of nutrient enhancement on biohydrogen gas production of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii? (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
        Anika Kiran Nagavara Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair The Effect of Different Amounts of Zinc on Asthma in Drosophila Melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
              1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category    
        Samika  Swamy Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Effect of environmental Aluminum on neurotoxicity and novel herb-based treatment to reduce inflammation-mediated neurona (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
   Joe Kim  Audrey Yining Cui 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category From Pixels to Paragraph and Paragraph to Pixels: A Deep Neural Art Critic & Artist (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Joseph  Seok $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award Infrastructure-less Vehicular Position Tracking based on RTT measurement of Wi-Fi signals (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              First Place, $125 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance    
   Josh Kuo  Arushi  Agastwar 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Biomimetic Tissue Regeneration: Activation of Wnt-3a Pathway in Presence of Bone Xenograft (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Avishi  Agastwar 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Biomimetic Tissue Regeneration: Activation of Wnt-3a Pathway in Presence of Bone Xenograft (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
   Supriya Moore  Samhita  Srivatsan Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Developing Artificial Neural Network Models to Predict Eutrophication of United States Freshwater Bodies (Physical Science and Engineering) 9