Fremont Union High School District
Project Awards 2021
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cupertino High School | Precious | Bagamaspad | Anagha | Badriprasad | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | GleasonNet: a Novel Explainable Histopathologic DNN for Prostate Cancer Stratification and Decision Support (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Sohom | Roy | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Design of a Compliant Wing Mechanism Optimized for Different Conditions with a Particle Swarm ML Optimization Algorithm (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Stella | Demetriou | Akshay | Attaluri | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Utilizing Machine Learning to Predict Postoperative Diabetes Insipidus in Patients Undergoing Transsphenoidal Surgery (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Vishal | Shenoy | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Vascular1: Using Virtual Reality to Train Surgical Residents in Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access Procedures (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Eric | Ferrante | Rucha | Deo | GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | PhysioVR: Virtual Reality App with Guided Gyroscope for Physical Therapy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Stuart | Hamilton | Ashwika | Agrawal | 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 | A Low-Cost Computer-Aided Lung Auscultation Apparatus and Automated Diagnosis of Respiratory Illnesses (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Adhip | Raghunathan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Anonymously Determining Indoor Occupancy Through Human Respiration Byproducts (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Ted | McLeod | Anav | Mehta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Inference of Physical Chess Positions through Board Segmentation and Piece Recognition using Convolution Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Aditya | Rao | Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | A Deep Learning Approach to Detect and Classify Skin Cancers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kent | Paris | Albert | Chang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | COVID Cases On-Site Tracking Device (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Sonia | Chang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | COVID Cases On-Site Tracking Device (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Adalia | Lee | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | COVID Cases On-Site Tracking Device (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sanika | Patil | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Application of Stackelberg game theory to improve accuracy of outcome predictions for pediatric AML patients (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Hugo | Steemers | Swara | Kadam | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Seismon - An interactive seismic detector to guide schoolchildren through earthquakes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Place Award - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | |||||||
| Rajasi | Laddha | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Iron and Vitamin C in Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Shrinandan Krishna | Narayanan | 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 | vAssist: A Device for the Visually Impaired to Improve In-Store Shopping using Computer Vision and AI enabled Routing (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Rohan | Tirumala | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Iron and Vitamin C in Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Homestead High School | Gary | Auten | Vivek | Bharati | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Mobile Phone-Based Indoor Situational Awareness and Walking Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Sam | Fung | Hemal | Kurani | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Noninvasive pathogen detection device to monitor the environment and test for pathogens including COVID-19 virus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Hetal | Kurani | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Noninvasive pathogen detection device to monitor the environment and test for pathogens including COVID-19 virus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| John | Shelby | Anirudh | Venkatraman | Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Using Machine Learning to Optimize Drug Discovery and Development to Counter Viral Proteins (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Kathleen | Shreve | Kinjal | Govil | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Evaluation of temporal subtraction techniques in image recognition machine learning models for wildfire detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Ed | Taylor | Arnuv | Tandon | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Deep neural networks for recovering tear film thickness profiles from hyperspectral interferograms. (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Andrea | Westgate | Nathaniel Sarin | Thomas | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using a Mask-Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) to detect and classify waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Lynbrook High School | Anshul | Agarwal | Tanvi | Chukka | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A novel watch to monitor and manage stress during shelter in place (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Priyanka | Supraja Balaji | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A novel watch to monitor and manage stress during shelter in place (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jeremy | Dybdahl | Alexander | Zhang | 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 a novel and efficient method of persistent homology to correct topological errors due to noise in medical scan data (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Bradley | Fulk | Laasya | Chukka | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Development of Autonomous Robot that efficiently disinfects spaces using SLAM and 3D point clouds for mapping (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Tim | Jing | 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 | FastFold: Streamlining End-to-End de Novo Deep Learning Protein Domain Prediction on COVID-19 Mutations and other Universal Applications (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 for Individual projects, IBM Award | |||||||
| $200 and Certificate of Achievement, Excellence in Computer Science Award: Sponsored by SCVSEFA | |||||||
| Kenneth | Iams | Albert | Tam | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A rapid base-calling tool in nanopore sequencing sensitive to homopolymer errors (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Mark | Kwong | Richard Ruichi | Cao | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Visual Speech Recognition Algorithm Using An Automated Lip Reader (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Kento | Nishi | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Augmentation Strategies for Learning with Noisy Labels (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| $200 and Certificate of Achievement, Excellence in Computer Science Award: Sponsored by SCVSEFA | |||||||
| Allen Liu | Ye | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Visual Speech Recognition Algorithm Using An Automated Lip Reader (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Lester | Leung | Krishna | Ajjarapu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Zenchi: A virtual reality-based remote patient monitoring system for physicians (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Tanush | Goel | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The design and construction of an iterative process using ML models to generate the best inhibitors for a target protein (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Elliu | Huang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Hand Gesture-based Authentication for Smartphones using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Shreya | Kakhandiki | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Poacher Activity Detection Device for Wildlife Conservation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Vineeta | Muvvala | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using artificial intelligence and deep learning to identify covid-19, viral pneumonia, and healthy patients (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Mridula | Naikawadi | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using artificial intelligence and deep learning to identify covid-19, viral pneumonia, and healthy patients (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Srikar | Nimmagadda | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of an Automatic Polyphonic Music Transcriber (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kavya Manasa | Pandrangi | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Zenchi: A virtual reality-based remote patient monitoring system for physicians (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Shailesh | Senthil Kumar | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Identifying Intratumoral Heterogeneity in a Microfluidic Tumor Model for Personalized Cancer Therapy (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Place $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Andrew | Yuan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Deep Learning for the Analysis and Prediction of Pneumonia from X-Ray Chest Scan Images (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Michael Lichao | Yuan | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | AR and VR Haptic Glove (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kathleen | Loia | Cindy | Chou | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Machine Learning AI Classification Models to Predict the Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Evelyn Mae | Hsu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using bioinformatics to identify SCCmecA and SCCnonmec mutations in Staphylococcus aureus. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Vijay | Krishnamoorthy | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Predicting the Limits of Human Athletic Performance using Novel Mathematical Models (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Vaishnavi Sai Durga | Kunapuli | Honorable Mention- $100 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS | Indoor Carbon Dioxide Pollution Reduction Through Organic and Economical Paint Using Mine Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Akshar | Miriyala | Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | Identifying possible long term medical ramifications of space travel due to the severe environment (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Sumedh | Ranabhor | Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | The Effects of Pulsars on Planet Formation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Justin | Tseng | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fabric densities impact on absorbency a factor in droplet count, an indicator of airborne contamination for COVID-19 (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Anne | Xu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Evaluation of the Effects of Neurological Conditions on Beta-Amyloid Plaque Accumulation in Alzheimers Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Thanh | Nguyen | Anirudh | Bharadwaj | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Algorithm for Exoplanet Detection and Verification from Light Curve and Spectral Line Data (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Flora | Huang | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Loss of BMPR2-CES1 Signaling is Associated with Oxidative Stress in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| David | Taylor | Ishan | Goyal | $100 for Individual projects, IBM Award | App-based personalization of guided breathing patterns for affect regulation (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Monta Vista High School | Colin | Anderson | Manasi | Ganti | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Using Machine Learning to Measure and Improve Engagement in Online Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Sushma | Bana | Amy | Zheng | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Analyzing the effects of spatiotemporal variability of vegetation on the intensity of wildfires using satellite imagery (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Pamela | Chow | Vivian | Ong | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Automated Plant Growth Chamber for Locations with Low Quantities of Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ananya | Rupanagunta | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | ALS patient risk stratification using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| John | Conlin | Ansh | Chaurasia | $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | Early Skin Cancer Diagnosis using Convolutional Neural Networks (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Samhita | Srivatsan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Efficient Approach to Storage Using Machine Learning, Image Detection and Radio-Frequency Identification (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Scott | DeRuiter | Arya Shriya | Srivastava | Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Using Machine Learning Technology to Predict the Growth of Glioblastomas (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Renee | Fallon | Srushti | Batni | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The effect of decreased pH levels on Haliclona Caerulea as a model of Ocean Acidification on the Porifera species (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Gaia | Buller | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Effect of Octocrylene and Changes of Temperature on Zooxanthellae Cells to Model the Harm of Common Sunscreen Ingredient (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ishanvi Naina | Kommula | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Mitigating ocean microplastics: Motorized device to extricate microfibers from laundry filters for safe disposal (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Christopher | Lee | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Fibrillin-2 Attenuation During Tissue Regeneration (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ashika | Mittal | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Effect of Fenugreek on the Size of Hyperglycemic Bombyx Mori Silkworms as a Model for Hyperglycemia (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ojas Atul | Sathaye | High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | Effects of caffeine consumption on food preference and intake in a Drosophila Melanogaster model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Mridula | Srinivasan | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the Effects of Withania Somnifera on Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1 (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Shridhula | Srinivasan | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the Effects of Withania Somnifera on Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1 (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jonah | Tien | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Shark: An Ultra-Breathable Mask utilizing Airflow based on a Culmination of Structure-Function Biomimicry Design (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Divya | Venkataraman | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Application of Light Therapy on Alzheimer's Disease by Measuring Locomotive Ability in a Drosophila Melanogaster Model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Debbie | Frazier | Anusha | Chittari | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Changing eating habits and mitigating climate change: a carbon footprint calculator and tracker for varying foods. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Myung Suh | Choi | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Modeling ADHD in Drosophila: Investigating the effects of glucose on dopamine production demonstrated by locomotion (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| David | Greenstein | Arjun | Kashyap | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Using Natural Language Processing and User Feedback to Make a Chatbot That Gives Accurate Answers to Queries (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kyle | Jones | Anika Kiran | Nagavara | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Different Amounts of Potassium Iodide on Asthma in Drosophila Melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Chaitra | Raghupathi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Designing a Hydraulic Turbine to Filter Micro Plastic Produced During PETase Degradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sonia | Swamy | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | BioShield: Eco-friendly Super-Accumulator-Biopolymer based heavy metal filter as plant protector and growth stimulator (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Joe | Kim | Gavin | Hung | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Lightweight Rice plant disease management mobile application using CNN and leaf color based nitrogen detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Siddhartha | Mishra | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Lightweight Rice plant disease management mobile application using CNN and leaf color based nitrogen detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Arnav | Reddy | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Lightweight Rice plant disease management mobile application using CNN and leaf color based nitrogen detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Yashnil | Saha | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Novel, Accurate Machine Learning based Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification Model for Toddlers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Alan | Wong | Milind | Maiti | 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis using Deep Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Jai | Sharma | 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis using Deep Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Christopher T | Sun | 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis using Deep Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||