Harker School-Upper Campus
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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Miriam | Allersma | Vidwat | Shekar | Low-Cost Biodegradable Indoor Air Purifier (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Casey | Brown | Aditya | Shivakumar | HgMap: Ultra-Low-Cost, Real-Time Mercury Detection & Remediation with Physics-Informed NNs and Plasmon Resonance Sensors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||
| Trisha | Shivakumar | HgMap: Ultra-Low-Cost, Real-Time Mercury Detection & Remediation with Physics-Informed NNs and Plasmon Resonance Sensors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | ||||
| Anuradha | Datar | Jayden | Liu | 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 | Predicting Depression Risk for Adolescents through Social Media Post Data: A Machine Learning Approach (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Ananya | Pradhan | Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease with Optical Coherence Tomography, Magnetic-Resonance Imaging, and Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Andrew Dongjoo | Shin | AGEOptimizer: A Novel Multi-Technique Optimization Tool for Enhanced Model Prediction and Discovery of Cancer Biomarkers (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | ||||
| Eddie | Zhang | 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 | Identifying novel GLS-1 inhibitors with deep chemical models & 3D molecular analysis for rapid cancer drug discovery (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||
| Yuqin | Ma | Systematic Assessment of Protected Species Bycatch with Spatio-Temporal Neural Networks in Subpolar and Tropical Pacific (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Danielle Alice | Steinbach | A multi-institution foundation model for EEG biomarkers of brain disorder progression, classification, and drug response (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Evan | Zhang | AI-Driven Artificial Muscle for Cardiac Assist using Hydraulically Amplified Self-Healing Electrostatic Actuators (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Swati | Mittal | Anish | Kosaraju | Revolutionizing AI Security: A Novel Multimodal Framework for Detecting, Isolating, & Preventing Data Poisoning Attacks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | ||
| Zane | Moore | Farhan | Ansari | From Pixels to Pulse: Enhancing Remote Photoplethysmography Accuracy in Compressed Videos (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||
| Aditya | Banwasi | DeepSleep: A Novel Convolutional Neural Network for Sleep Apnea Detection by Analyzing Electroencephalogram Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | ||||
| Siddhant | Gaur | 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 | DeepSleep: A Novel Convolutional Neural Network for Sleep Apnea Detection by Analyzing Electroencephalogram Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | ||||
| Danika | Gupta | Scaling of Textile Pollution Mitigation via Computational Methods: NIRS Fabric Classification and Dye Mycoremediation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Neil | Krishnan | On the Connectivity of Friends-and-strangers Graphs (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | ||||
| Phoebe | Lee | AI-Driven Forecasting: Deep Learning-Based Predictive Modeling of Wind Power Output to Optimize Clean Energy Supply (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | ||||
| Nathan | Mao | DeepSleep: A Novel Convolutional Neural Network for Sleep Apnea Detection by Analyzing Electroencephalogram Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | ||||
| Krish | Nachnani | Recurrent Event Analysis and Biomarker Discovery for Glioblastoma Using mRNA-sequenced Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Brenna | Ren | RBDGuard: Accessible Early Detection of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Using Single-Lead ECG and Unsupervised Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Lily | Shi | OphthaLVLM: A Locally Deployable Large Vision-Language Model for Explainable Eye Disease Diagnosis and Dialogue (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Kallie | Wang | Gene Expression Profiles of Different Stage Lung Cancer Cells Under Hypoxia (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Claire | Xu | Non-Invasive Blood-Based Early Alzheimer's Detection Using Sex-Specific Brain-Blood Graph Reinforcement Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | ||||
| Tiffany | Zhu | Predicting the Survivability and Future Growth of Coral Using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Eric | Nelson | Medha | Choudhry | A Novel Integration of Multimodal Strategies and Ensemble Learning to Enhance Reliability in Early Skin Cancer Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | ||
| Hannah | Lin | 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 | Deconstructing Household Energy Use: A Machine Learning Approach (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Elizabeth | Zhang | 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 | De novo Discovery of a Mucin-1 Inhibitor via Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | ||
| Chris | Spenner | Pratulya | Rangavazzala | Effect of Wingspan on Airplane efficiency (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | ||
| Tanisha Supriya | Vaish | Effect of Persimmon Natural Products on Common Household Bacterial Growth (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | ||||
| Vishwa | Vijay | Effect of Wingspan on Airplane efficiency (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | ||||
| Linda | Zeng | Reinforcing Multi-Step Reasoning through Self-Learning in LLMs (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||||
| Ellie | Zhou | Developing a Non-Contact Cardiac Monitoring System via Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | ||||
| Ran | Tao | Ananya | Gurushankar | Synthesis and Mechanical Analysis of Conductive Alginate Hydrogels for Enhanced Tissue Regeneration (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | ||