Monta Vista High School
Project Awards 2020
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monta Vista High School | Sushma | Bana | Dinesh Kumar | Thirumavalavan | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Using a convolution LSTM-based deep neural network to accurately identify and classify hate speech on Twitter. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Pamela | Chow | Christine | Xu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | How does isolation affect a Drosophila's ability to learn mazes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Katie | Collins | Fiona Lin | Luo | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Identification of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides with Designed Activity through a QSAR Based Machine Learning Model (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| John | Conlin | Divya | Venkataraman | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Picture Perfect Diet: An app to classify food products, with OCR, for recommending substitutes based on a chosen diet (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Scott | DeRuiter | Niranjan | Bhatia | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Detection and classification of recyclable items to help recyclable facility robots identify and pick them up correctly (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Brandon | Guo | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Hamiltonian Cycles Generating Eulerian Polytopes: A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ojas Mahavir | Karnavat | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Designing a public alert system that provides available exit routes when fire is detected in an enterprise facility (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Minjeong | Kim | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Detecting Pain in Children with Autism using 68 Points on Facial Expressions (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Suhas | Prasad | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Hamiltonian Cycles Generating Eulerian Polytopes: A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Chaitra | Raghupathi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What Properties of DNA Sequencing Reads Determine the Optimal K-mer Size for De Bruijn Graph Construction? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Gautham | Raghupathi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What Properties of DNA Sequencing Reads Determine the Optimal K-mer Size for De Bruijn Graph Construction? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Mahit Vishnusai | Tanikella | $100 for Individual projects. $50 for each student for Team Projects, IBM Award | Automatic Quantification of Lymphocytes as Prognostic Marker in Cancer Tissue (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Renee | Fallon | Myung Suh | Choi | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The capabilities of various phytochemicals to inhibit bacterial quorum sensing modeled by Serratia Marcescens (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Malavika | Eby | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Varying Levels of Apoptosis on the Efficacy of Phenytoin in Seizure-Susceptible Drosophila (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Anoushka | Lakshmi | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of the Azadirachtin on the Reproductive Rates of Daphnia Pulex (water flea) (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Sophia W. | Liu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of a metalloprotease inhibitor on the molting and mortality of C. elegans as an anti-aneurysmal growth model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Atmaja | Patil | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of food waste addition to broth of Rhizobium Leguminosarum and its capacity to raise interest in biofertilizers (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jonah | Tien | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Brainteract: An Integrated Improvement Aiding Brain-Computer-Interfaces and Disabilities Using Visual-Evoked Stimuli (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kelly Hui-Chin | Tung | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the Functions of xpa-1 and him-1 Genes in UV Resistance of Caenorhabditis elegans by Combinatorial RNAi (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| David | Greenstein | Janya | Budaraju | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Natural Language Processing to More Effectively Conduct Qualitative Mental Health Research (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Safaa Aicha | Mouline | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Customizable Voice that Improves Comprehension of Speech for Children with Language Impairments (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kyle | Jones | Sanjana S | Jilla | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Identifying Lead-free Perovskites Using Machine Learning for High Efficiency Solar Cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Avani | Kulshreshtha | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of nutrient enhancement on biohydrogen gas production of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Anika Kiran | Nagavara | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Effect of Different Amounts of Zinc on Asthma in Drosophila Melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Samika | Swamy | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Effect of environmental Aluminum on neurotoxicity and novel herb-based treatment to reduce inflammation-mediated neurona (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Joe | Kim | Audrey Yining | Cui | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | From Pixels to Paragraph and Paragraph to Pixels: A Deep Neural Art Critic & Artist (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Joseph | Seok | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award | Infrastructure-less Vehicular Position Tracking based on RTT measurement of Wi-Fi signals (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| First Place, $125 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| Josh | Kuo | Arushi | Agastwar | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Biomimetic Tissue Regeneration: Activation of Wnt-3a Pathway in Presence of Bone Xenograft (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Avishi | Agastwar | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Biomimetic Tissue Regeneration: Activation of Wnt-3a Pathway in Presence of Bone Xenograft (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Supriya | Moore | Samhita | Srivatsan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing Artificial Neural Network Models to Predict Eutrophication of United States Freshwater Bodies (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Thanh | Nguyen | Grace | Kuo | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Early Diagnosis and Characterization of Sepsis Using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |