Harker School-Upper Campus
Project Awards 2025
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Miriam | Allersma | Vidwat | Shekar | $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | Low-Cost Biodegradable Indoor Air Purifier (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Casey | Brown | Aditya | Shivakumar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | HgMap: Ultra-Low-Cost, Real-Time Mercury Detection & Remediation with Physics-Informed NNs and Plasmon Resonance Sensors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards HS | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Trisha | Shivakumar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | HgMap: Ultra-Low-Cost, Real-Time Mercury Detection & Remediation with Physics-Informed NNs and Plasmon Resonance Sensors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards HS | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Anuradha | Datar | Jayden | Liu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Multiscale Anchor-Free 3D CNN Integrated with Denoising for Early Lung Nodule Detection in Low-Dose CT Images (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Ishan Krishna | Mysore | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predicting Depression Risk for Adolescents through Social Media Post Data: A Machine Learning Approach (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ananya | Pradhan | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease with Optical Coherence Tomography, Magnetic-Resonance Imaging, and Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Andrew Dongjoo | Shin | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | AGEOptimizer: A Novel Multi-Technique Optimization Tool for Enhanced Model Prediction and Discovery of Cancer Biomarkers (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Eddie | Zhang | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | AI-Surgeon: A Transfer Learning Multimodal Ensemble Transformer based VR Copilot for Action Prediction in Trauma Surgery (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Matthew | Harley | Disha | Gupta | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Identifying novel GLS-1 inhibitors with deep chemical models & 3D molecular analysis for rapid cancer drug discovery (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Certificate of Achievement + Letter from Sponsor (regarding $25 gift card redeemable online + internship opportunity with ASEI Industry Partner + free 1 year membership to ASEI), ASEI Award | |||||||
| Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Yuqin | Ma | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Systematic Assessment of Protected Species Bycatch with Spatio-Temporal Neural Networks in Subpolar and Tropical Pacific (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Danielle Alice | Steinbach | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | A multi-institution foundation model for EEG biomarkers of brain disorder progression, classification, and drug response (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and a certificate, IBM Award | |||||||
| Evan | Zhang | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | AI-Driven Artificial Muscle for Cardiac Assist using Hydraulically Amplified Self-Healing Electrostatic Actuators (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement + Letter from Sponsor (regarding free 1 year membership to ASEI), ASEI Award | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Swati | Mittal | Anish | Kosaraju | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Revolutionizing AI Security: A Novel Multimodal Framework for Detecting, Isolating, & Preventing Data Poisoning Attacks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 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 | |||||||
| Zane | Moore | Farhan | Ansari | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | From Pixels to Pulse: Enhancing Remote Photoplethysmography Accuracy in Compressed Videos (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Aditya | Banwasi | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | DeepSleep: A Novel Convolutional Neural Network for Sleep Apnea Detection by Analyzing Electroencephalogram Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Siddhant | Gaur | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Role of Mutated Plant-Derived VOCs in Mental Illness: A Biological Factor of Suicide studied in the Aokigahara-Jukai (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Avi | Gupta | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | DeepSleep: A Novel Convolutional Neural Network for Sleep Apnea Detection by Analyzing Electroencephalogram Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Danika | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Scaling of Textile Pollution Mitigation via Computational Methods: NIRS Fabric Classification and Dye Mycoremediation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Neil | Krishnan | 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | On the Connectivity of Friends-and-strangers Graphs (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Phoebe | Lee | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | AI-Driven Forecasting: Deep Learning-Based Predictive Modeling of Wind Power Output to Optimize Clean Energy Supply (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Nathan | Mao | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | DeepSleep: A Novel Convolutional Neural Network for Sleep Apnea Detection by Analyzing Electroencephalogram Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Krish | Nachnani | Certificate of Achievement + Letter from Sponsor (regarding free 1 year membership to ASEI), ASEI Award | Recurrent Event Analysis and Biomarker Discovery for Glioblastoma Using mRNA-sequenced Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Brenna | Ren | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | RBDGuard: Accessible Early Detection of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Using Single-Lead ECG and Unsupervised Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Lily | Shi | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | OphthaLVLM: A Locally Deployable Large Vision-Language Model for Explainable Eye Disease Diagnosis and Dialogue (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kallie | Wang | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Gene Expression Profiles of Different Stage Lung Cancer Cells Under Hypoxia (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Claire | Xu | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Non-Invasive Blood-Based Early Alzheimer's Detection Using Sex-Specific Brain-Blood Graph Reinforcement Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | |||||||
| $375 Cash Prize Voucher from Society for Science and Certificate, Regeneron Biomedical Science Award | |||||||
| Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Tiffany | Zhu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predicting the Survivability and Future Growth of Coral Using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Eric | Nelson | Medha | Choudhry | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Integration of Multimodal Strategies and Ensemble Learning to Enhance Reliability in Early Skin Cancer Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Hannah | Lin | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | MazeAstro: Discovery of High Proper-Motion Y Brown Dwarfs with Shift-Patch Vision Models and Long-Period Infrared Survey (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Aditya | Ramanathan | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Deconstructing Household Energy Use: A Machine Learning Approach (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Elizabeth | Zhang | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Pioneering the First Ever Blind-Search on Circumbinary Planets Using a Novel Non-periodic Deep-learning Algorithm (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Mike | Pistacchi | Lucas | Wu | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | De novo Discovery of a Mucin-1 Inhibitor via Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Chris | Spenner | Pratulya | Rangavazzala | $100 and a certificate, IBM Award | Effect of Wingspan on Airplane efficiency (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Tanisha Supriya | Vaish | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Persimmon Natural Products on Common Household Bacterial Growth (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Vishwa | Vijay | $100 and a certificate, IBM Award | Effect of Wingspan on Airplane efficiency (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Linda | Zeng | 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Reinforcing Multi-Step Reasoning through Self-Learning in LLMs (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ellie | Zhou | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Non-Contact Cardiac Monitoring System via Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ran | Tao | Ananya | Gurushankar | 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Synthesis and Mechanical Analysis of Conductive Alginate Hydrogels for Enhanced Tissue Regeneration (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |