Harker School-Upper Campus
Project Awards 2018
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Miriam | Allersma | Allison Sihan | Jia | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | A System with Functional Quantum Dot Labeled Tau and a Microfluidic Chamber for a Dynamic Study of Taupathologies (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Martin | Baynes | Ankita | Kundu | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | Converting Passive Kinetic Energy into Electrical Energy to Charge Electronic Devices (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Keval Amish | Shah | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | FundusX: A Machine Learning Model for Disease Diagnosis in Fundus Images (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Johnny Young | Wang | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Flexible Capacitive Graphene-Based Touch Sensor with macOS Application (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Framed Certificate of Achievement,, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Lizhi | Yang | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Flexible Capacitive Graphene-Based Touch Sensor with macOS Application (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Framed Certificate of Achievement,, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Gary | Blickenstaff | Sahil | Jain | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Stem Cell Engineering and Immunofluorescence Quantification of GABAergic and Glutamatergic Neurons (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Krish Brij | Kapadia | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Salivary Proteins: Novel Biomarkers in Traumatic Brain Injury (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Eileen | Li | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Deep Learning Approach for Early Detection of Lung Cancer (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ayush Magan | Pancholy | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Detection of Skin Cancers with a Machine Learning Model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Anjay | Saklecha | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Salivary Proteins: Novel Biomarkers in Traumatic Brain Injury (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sidra Yang | Xu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Designing a Machine Learning Based Decision-Making Application to Predict the Surgical Mortality of Lung Cancer Patients (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Russell Anthony | Yang | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Designing a Machine Learning Based Decision-Making Application to Predict the Surgical Mortality of Lung Cancer Patients (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| David | Casso | Shreya | Dasari | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comprehensive Identification and Quantification of Mouse Lung Alveolar Epithelial Cell Subtypes (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Ruhi | Sayana | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Precision Medicine Approach: Epigenetic Inhibitors Induce Highly-Specific Apoptosis in High Risk Acute Leukemia (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Youssef | Ismail (mentor) | Anika | Fuloria | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | A novel, low-cost approach to reduce motorcycle accidents using ultrasound technology (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Eric | Nelson | Ayush | Alag | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Epigenetic Biomarkers for Diagnosing Food Allergy: A Deep Learning Approach (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Cynthia | Chen | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Type 2 Diabetes Prediction Using Longitudinal Machine Learning Analyses and Integrative Personal Omics Profiling (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Cameron Cole | Jones | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Automated Identification of Organic Molecular Structure and Relative Concentrations from Infrared Spectral Data (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kaushik | Shivakumar | Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | A Weak Supervision Machine Learning Approach to Classification Using an XGBoost Model (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Katherine Feifei | Zhang | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Deep Learning Analysis of Human Gut Microbiome Metagenomic Data with Applications in Geolocation and Disease Prediction (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Chris | Spenner | Amy | Dunphy | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Biopolymers to Reduce Heavy Metal Soil Pollution (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Swapnil | Garg | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Automated Clear Cell Renal Carcinoma Grade Classification with Prognostic Significance (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Michael | Kwan | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Aiding the Aid: Early Clinical Diagnosis of Electronic Health Records Through Text Classification (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Rajiv | Movva | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | SNPpet: Deep Learning the Human Epigenome Reveals Regulatory Sequence Patterns and Genomic Mechanisms of Disease (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Katherine | Tian | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Automated Clear Cell Renal Carcinoma Grade Classification with Prognostic Significance (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Justin Long | Xie | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | A New Light: Type Ia Supernovae Mechanism Identification Through Spectral Analysis and Comparison to Theoretical Models (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Rich | Williams (mentor) | Arnav Sameer | Joshi | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predicting asthmatic risk and asthma related hospital visits using a novel machine learning solution (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |