San Jose Unified School District

Project Awards 2025

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Leland High School	Jamie	Cohen	Abhay	Shukla	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Vox Transformis: End-to-End Audio/Music Translation With Rhythmic, Literal, and Melodic Fidelity Across Many Languages (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Jeffry	Sloneker	Bhavya	Kumar	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	NeuroFlux: Modeling Alzheimer's Disease Progression with Neural SDEs and Contrastive Learning (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
	Katrina	Thoman	Max Hung	Nguyen	Certificate of Excellence for Basic Science and $350, Bessie Stough Awards (Part 1)	From Earth to super-Jupiters: A Unified Theory of Planet Formation (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category
	Kevin	Tibbs	Avni	Iyer	Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category	FORGEall: A Deep Learning Framework to Reliably Predict High Yield Strength High-Entropy Alloys for Hypersonic Engines (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					3rd place HS project - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA
					Andreasen Excellence in Engineering Science Award, $200 and Certificate (all ), SPV Market Research
					Certificate of Achievement; Individually Wrapped Award Package from U.S. Air Force, United States Air Force
	Rob	Wallace	Kabir	Gupta	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Exploring the Shock-Absorbing Potential of Non-Newtonian Fluids and Response to Shear Stress Under Variable Conditions (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
University Preparatory Academy (UPA)	Nicole	Sebek	Julian Alexander	McClelland	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Utilizing Custom Neural Networks to Enhance Mobility and Vision via a Leg Exoskeleton and AR Mask for Earthquake Rescue (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Anish Madhan	Raj	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Utilizing Custom Neural Networks to Enhance Mobility and Vision via a Leg Exoskeleton and AR Mask for Earthquake Rescue (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Ian	Sim	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Utilizing Custom Neural Networks to Enhance Mobility and Vision via a Leg Exoskeleton and AR Mask for Earthquake Rescue (Physical Science and Engineering)	11