Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District

Project Awards 2026

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Gatos High School	Lalitha	Maruvada	Akio Rylen	Takase	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Interactive Multi-Scale Analysis of Population Density and Canopy (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Alexander	Tsykora	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Interactive Multi-Scale Analysis of Population Density and Canopy (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Jack	Zhang	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Interactive Multi-Scale Analysis of Population Density and Canopy (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Cathy	Messenger	Naitik	Gupta	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	ALCAS: An Allosteric Language-Based Computational Architecture for De Novo Synthetic Enzyme Design (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Julian	Juan	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	PathoGraph-DL: Multi-Modal GNNs for Predicting Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Global Agricultural Pathogen Networks (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Max	Kovalenko	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Early Detection of Alzheimer's Through Neural Network Analysis of Acoustic and Linguistic Speech Features (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Arnav	Mana	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	PhysioGraph: Decoding Latent Spatiotemporal Topologies of Prodromal Cardiogenic Shock in STEMI via Recurrent Gated GATv2 (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Kaitlyn Lan Anh	Phan	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Mechanistic and Kinetic Analysis of Thermal Plastic Degradation Pathways and Biodegradable Coating Efficacy in Fragmenta (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Brandon	Wong	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Early Detection of Alzheimer's Through Neural Network Analysis of Acoustic and Linguistic Speech Features (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Wesley Cheuk-Wing	Wong	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	A GPT Controlled Simulation-Based Reinforcement Learning Pipeline for Real World Embodied AI (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
Saratoga High School	Jennifer	Lee	Elaine Youyuan	Che	Exceptional Project- Betterment of Humanity, $150 Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research	Designing a New Algorithm to Reduce Social-Media Overuse and Improve Teen Well-Being (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Mason	Cheng	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Computationally Discovering the Effect of Natural Product Structure on Inhibiting EptA-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Alicia Tianyun	Huang	2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Rabies Virus Screening Using RT-LAMP Technique: Optimizing a Rapid Low-Cost Portable Kit (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Leqi	Jia	Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)	Electrophysiology-Based Pacemaker System Integrating Deep Reinforcement Learning For Cardiac Arrhythmia Management (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
					Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category
			Fiona	Liu	Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research	Modeling the Economic and Emissions Impact of Solar Photovoltaics Adoption in Santa Clara County (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Shreya	Nabar	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Methyl Donor Induced Stress Tolerance and Potential Epigenetic Effects in Rapid Cycling Plants (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Mikul	Rana	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	A Computer Vision Integrated Hand Exoskeleton to Enhance Grip and Mobility in Individuals with Dexterity Impairments (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Alvin	Shen	Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)	Electrophysiology-Based Pacemaker System Integrating Deep Reinforcement Learning For Cardiac Arrhythmia Management (Biological Science and Engineering)	9
					Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category
			Ellis	Yang	2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Rabies Virus Screening Using RT-LAMP Technique: Optimizing a Rapid Low-Cost Portable Kit (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11