Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District
Award Recipients 2025
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
Awards of winners will be revealed after the Awards Ceremonies.
| School | Teacher | Student | Title | Gr | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Altos High School | Darren | Dressen | Anastasia Magda | Aliashvili | Selective Non-Nucleoside Inhibition of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus: Synthesizing T-1105 Analogs for Better Specificity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Camelia Sophia | Burnham | Selective Non-Nucleoside Inhibition of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus: Synthesizing T-1105 Analogs for Better Specificity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Linuki | Ekenayake | Bio-orthogonal activation of a NRAS targeting prodrug for metastatic melanomas (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Tom | Freda Eskenazi | Synthesizing and testing novel ligands for passivation and improved stability of perovskite films in solar cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Joseph | Gerdyman | Synthesizing and testing novel ligands for passivation and improved stability of perovskite films in solar cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Milan | Grbovic | Design of a Thermoelectric Generator"Phase Change Material system for waste heat recovery in air conditioning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Ria | Kohli | Synthesizing a curcumin cyclodextrin complex to target cell proliferation of A549 cell line (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Ashley | Lim | Selective Non-Nucleoside Inhibition of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus: Synthesizing T-1105 Analogs for Better Specificity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Dylan | Po | Improving Sleep Apnea Diagnosis: Are Ensemble and Deep Learning Models a Cost-Effective Alternative to Polysomnography? (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Avni | Rajagopal | Comparing LLM Fine-Tuning and RAG for Natural Language Tasks Related to Scientific Literature (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Sarika | Rajan | Bio-orthogonal activation of a NRAS targeting prodrug for metastatic melanomas (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Dhruv | Ramasubban | Biodegradable, Porous Polymer Sensor Embedded with Natural Dyes for Volatile Organic Compound Sensing in Food Spoilage (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Parker | Woo | Synthesizing and testing novel ligands for passivation and improved stability of perovskite films in solar cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Abby Jiaqi | Zhou | Optimizing Energy Recovery LINAC Particle Accelerators to Minimize Beam Breakup Instability for EUV-Lithography (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Stephen | Hine | Arush | Garg | GenAI Cane: A White Cane with Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||
| Victoria | Johnson | Axelle Marie Francesca | Allanic | Observing the effects of climate change-associated variables on Elysia Crispata (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||
| Roya Camille | Bahman | Using L-carnitine to increase NADPH levels in order to treat Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Juliana | Baltz | Treating Circadian Rhythm Disruption with Ramelteon to Investigate Neurodegeneration in Drosophila Models of Parkinson's (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Takumi | Britt | Beyond Behavioral Quiescence: Uncovering aptf-1's Impact on Sleep-Wake Disorders & Sensory Misperception in C. elegan (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Kaveri Reya | Desai | Using L-carnitine to increase NADPH levels in order to treat Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Ari | Elovson | Observing the effects of climate change-associated variables on Elysia Crispata (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Suya | Fang | The role of the Drosophila histone acetyltransferase Enok in modulating ethanol tolerance following induced relapse (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Shreya Rajesh | Goyalpatel | Reducing Cellular Immortalization in Cancer Cells Utilizing a Combination Therapy of MST-312, Quercetin, & Curcumin (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Abhinav | Kasturi | Beyond Behavioral Quiescence: Uncovering aptf-1's Impact on Sleep-Wake Disorders & Sensory Misperception in C. elegan (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Joanne | Lin | The role of the Drosophila histone acetyltransferase Enok in modulating ethanol tolerance following induced relapse (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Kelsey | Nguyen | Treating Circadian Rhythm Disruption with Ramelteon to Investigate Neurodegeneration in Drosophila Models of Parkinson's (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Nicole Maeli | Park | Observing the effects of climate change-associated variables on Elysia Crispata (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Liv | Weiner | Reducing Cellular Immortalization in Cancer Cells Utilizing a Combination Therapy of MST-312, Quercetin, & Curcumin (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Heather | Laederich | Rohan | Desai | Comparing and developing technology analyzing single cell data of different types (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | ||
| Peter | Lin | Comparing and developing technology analyzing single cell data of different types (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | ||||
| Mountain View High School | Jenna | Adams | Lara Alexandra | Leon | The Effect of Blue Light Wavelengths on Phytoplankton: Engineering a Sustainable Growth Method. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Meital | Zayats | The Effect of Blue Light Wavelengths on Phytoplankton: Engineering a Sustainable Growth Method. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | ||||
| Marcia | Babiak | Kirati | Bollineni | Post Covid-19, Direct and Indirect Economic Impacts from Taylor Swift's Era's Tour (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | ||
| David | Cmaylo | Anuj | Jain | FenBT: Enzyme Therapy for Treating Fentanyl Overdose and Addiction (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||
| Ann | Nguyen | Aria Rani | Sindledecker | Enhanced Cell Proliferation Driven by Overexpression of Autism-Linked Genes SCN2A and KMT5B (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||