Los Altos High School

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