BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School

Project Awards 2025

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School	Kevyn	Adams	Saanvi	Sharma	$100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards	Protecting Construction Workers: A Novel 3D Vision-Based System for High-Precision Hazard Detection (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
	Karen	Allendoerfer	Jason Naoki	Nishio	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Universal Deep Learning Frameworks for Multi-Disease Classification in Neurology: From Alzheimer's to Brain Tumors (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Nelson Kazuki	Nishio	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Universal Deep Learning Frameworks for Multi-Disease Classification in Neurology: From Alzheimer's to Brain Tumors (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
	Swetha	Bhattacharya	Manasvini	Singh	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Transforming MRI Data into Latent Space Embeddings Using Multihead Learning to Understand Alzheimer's Progression (Biological Science and Engineering)	9
	Chandni	Chadha	Aryan	Tummala	1st place HS project - $200 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA	Reactive Species Detection in DBD Plasma for Wound Healing Applications (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					Certificate of Achievement; Individually Wrapped Award Package from U.S. Air Force, United States Air Force
	Kyle	Covert	Anav Venkata	Apparaju	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Measuring and Classifying Wildfires Using a Novel Drone-Based Approach (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					High School Student - Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations from the Chief of Naval Research, Medallion and $50 gift card (redeemable online), Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps
	Jianli	Fan	Ethan	Guo	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Generative Visualizations for Accessible Learning: Bridging Cognitive Gaps in Mathematics through Visual Pathways (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Raeanne	Li	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Generative Visualizations for Accessible Learning: Bridging Cognitive Gaps in Mathematics through Visual Pathways (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Clarence	Lau	Ankith	Burki	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	CrashGuard: A Smart Vehicle Device That Uses Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition to Anticipate and Prevent Accidents (Physical Science and Engineering)	6
			Rithvik	Burki	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	CrashGuard: A Smart Vehicle Device That Uses Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition to Anticipate and Prevent Accidents (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
			Celena	Fu	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Tennis Trajectory: Predict where a tennis ball lands by using Projectile Motion and Arduino (Physical Science and Engineering)	6
	Jon	Noble	Dhruv	Sharma	Certificate of Achievement + Letter from Sponsor (regarding free 1 year membership to ASEI), ASEI Award	FIBER: Real-Time Neurofeedback System for Fibromyalgia Pain Management Using EEG-Based Closed-Loop Control (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
	Ollie	Schindler	Aditrivaishnavi	Balaji	Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)	Cracking the code to Martian Energy: The search for uranium in Mars using Gamma Ray Maps (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
					Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
	Kirti	Tamhane	Tianyi Stanley	Cao	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	A Neural Network-Based Heart Rate Monitoring System (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
			Shivani	Iyer	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	EMPATH AI: Real-Time Adaptation based on emotional non-verbal cues in online tutoring (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Priyank	Sharma-Tiwari	Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)	Greener Cities, Smarter Rides: Optimizing Public Transit with Dynamic Routing and User Requests (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
			Harrison	Wu	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Revolutionizing RAG with Confliction Detection: Transforming Customer Service Chatbots with Large Language Models (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Julia	Wendel	Krishna	Bhatt	Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	MesoNet: A Spatio-Temporal Neural Architecture for Massively Energy-Efficient Unsupervised Learning (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Archit	Deepak	GR 9-12: 2nd Place, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award	A.U.R.S: Autonomous UAV for Rescue Signaling (Physical Science and Engineering)	10