Monta Vista High School

Project Awards 2018

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Monta Vista High School Sushma Bana Matthew  Cho 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Intelligent Decision-Making for Autonomous Cars with Distributed Reinforcement Learning and Self-Trained Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
            5 Students will be awarded a check for $100 each, IBM Award    
            Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award    
            Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award    
      Triya  Roy IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers A portable and cost-effective Non-Mydriatic camera capable of taking a colored and red free image of the Ocular Fundus (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
  Nora Beamon Aditi  Singh 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Testing Von Restorff Effect In Long-Term Free Memory Recall (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
  Scott DeRuiter Tae Kyu  Kim 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Context-aware Paraphrase Suggestion System using Recurrent Neural Networks with Autoencoder and Quality Classifier (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
            5 Students will be awarded a check for $100 each, IBM Award    
      Raj Sekhar Reddy Palleti 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 What Properties Define the Eulerian Sequence? A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
            1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
            Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta    
            Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award    
      Matthew Harrison Park 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Diagnosing Systemic Diseases With Fingernail Image Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
            Certificate of Achievement and letter - medallion and cert will be received in mail after student fills out the online link., Yale Science and Engineering Association    
      Suhas  Prasad 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 What Properties Define the Eulerian Sequence? A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
            1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
            Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta    
            Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award    
      Jeremy  Tien 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category An Automated Tool to Classify and Categorize "Methods and Materials" Sections Across Biomed Papers using Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
  Renee Fallon Aadithya R. Anumala 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Insertion of tp73 into mutp53-type cancer E. coli model effect on cisplatin induced cell mortality. (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
            HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps    
      Ramya Ulhas Chamkeri Plaque and letter of invitation to Tour of Stanford Chemistry Department Labs, Stanford University Chemistry Department Neutralizing the Odor of a Cheese Brine with a Thiol-Neutralizing Solution (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
      Anika  Cheerla 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 Deep, Multimodal Representation Learning for Pan-Cancer Prognosis Prediction (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
            Second Place: University of Toronto "Swag Bag", University of Toronto Award    
            1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category    
      Seung Ah  Choi 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Modeling a Bioluminescent LED that Enhances the Brightness of Photobacterium Phosphoreum with Optimized Dye - Sensitized (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
            Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter    
      Akash  Dasgupta 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Is it Possible to Detect Fake Tungsten-based Gold Bullion with Non-Destructive testing? (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
            2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter    
      Athena F. Fung Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Palmitate: Reducing Proliferative Properties of Cancer Cells Through the Dephosphorylation of Sphingosine 1-Phosphate (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
            Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter    
      Ashvin Saikumar Irrinki Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category A Novel Solution to Regrow Nerves & Retain Memory for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Using Sheath Cells on C. Elegans (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 10
      Prabhat Kumar Jandhyala Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Epigenetic Effects of Groundwater Pollutant 2,6-Dichlorobenzamide in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
      Vivek Vijay Kamarshi 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Investigation of Tacrolimus-Induced Changes in Fusogenicity and Pathogenicity of Varicella Zoster Virus (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
            Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology    
      Chetan  Mokkapati 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effect of Light Pollution on the Circadian Rhythm in Drosophila melanogaster. (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
      Vishnu  Palaniappan Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Subacute Neurotoxic Effects of Atrazine in C. elegans. (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
      Aditya Sunil Shah 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 Supervised machine learning framework for automatic detection & classification of Glioblastomas using SVM-RFE algorithm (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
      Amrita Samhita Shankar Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category The effect of probiotics on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease modeling via Atx-2 C.elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      Manik Keshav Taneja Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association Are stress and anxiety related issues underreported among Asians at competitive high schools? (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
      Michelle Yue Zhu $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis A Novel, Portable, Brain Cooling Device to Increase Brain Recovery After Cardiac Arrest (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
            1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
            IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
  Debbie Frazier Isha  Chakraborty GR 9-12: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award Forest Fire Detection with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Generative Adversarial Networks using Drone (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
  Pooya Hajjarian Roya  Ahmadi 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Wildfire Prevention Through a Self Sustained Measurement Reporting and Analysis System (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
      Riya  Chatterjee 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Genetic Disease Detection in Diverse Populations using Facial Recognition and Deep Learning Methodologies (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
            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    
  Kyle Jones Anokhi Jitesh Shah $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award Adsorption of Copper Ions from Wastewater Using a Low Cost Modified Starch Polymer for Water Purification (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
            Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize    
      Ashwatha  Tulsi Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Particulate Organic Matter Production by Sea Sponges Incorporated with Different Concentrations of Crude Oil (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
            Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize    
  Joe Kim Audrey  Cui 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Ovarian Cancer Biomarker Identification from SELDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Datasets Using Machine Learning Methods (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
      Siddhant  Rao Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category A Deep Learning Approach to Breast Cancer Prognosis via Convolutional Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
            Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award    
  Kathleen Koch Iris Xinran Xia Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Using Big Data Analytics to Correlate Slow Slip Events and Repeating Earthquakes in the Nicoya Peninsula Subduction Zone (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
  Ted Shinta Gaurav  Kamath $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance Generating Electricity From The Orbital Ocean Waves (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
            Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society    
      Fiona Lin Luo $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award Harvesting body heat from a chair using thermoelectric generators to power a light source (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
  Jenna Smith Andrew Bakshi Richardson 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Cadence of music to cadence of stride: Effects of listening to varying bpm in music on running speed in the 400 meter (Biological Science and Engineering) 9