Bellarmine College Preparatory

Project Awards 2015

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Bellarmine College Preparatory	Ibtisam	Khalaf (SSW mentor)	Ayan	Bandyopadhyay	1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category	Effect of a Leptothrix discophora biocathode in a microbial fuel cell on power output (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	11
	Debjani	Roy	Manfred Virgil	Ambat	1st Award, RRI Physical Sciences Category	The Nature of Variability of the Ultraviolet & Optical Spectral Energy Distribution of Active Galactic Nuclei (RRI Physical Sciences)	12
			Anin	Sayana	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Novel Design and Optimization of an EGFRvIII-based Cancer Peptide Vaccine for Glioblastoma: a Computational and Biological Paradigm for Improving Vaccine Efficacy (RRI Biological Sciences)	11
					1st Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category
					Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems
	Rod	Wong	Rahul Ram	Mohan	1st Award, Bioinformatics Category	Stage based cancer classification and identification of disease causing gene pathways and splice junction interactions using deep neural networks (Bioinformatics)	10
			Pravin	Ravishanker	Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	AlZCan: Predicting Future Onset of Alzheimer's Using Gender, Genetics, Cognitive Tests, Biomarkers, and Brain Imaging. (Bioinformatics)	10
					2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category