Fremont Union High School District

Project Awards 2021

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Cupertino High School Precious Bagamaspad Anagha  Badriprasad Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair GleasonNet: a Novel Explainable Histopathologic DNN for Prostate Cancer Stratification and Decision Support (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
            1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
            IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
      Sohom  Roy Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Design of a Compliant Wing Mechanism Optimized for Different Conditions with a Particle Swarm ML Optimization Algorithm (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
  Stella Demetriou Akshay  Attaluri 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Utilizing Machine Learning to Predict Postoperative Diabetes Insipidus in Patients Undergoing Transsphenoidal Surgery (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
      Vishal  Shenoy Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category Vascular1: Using Virtual Reality to Train Surgical Residents in Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access Procedures (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
  Eric Ferrante Rucha  Deo GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award PhysioVR: Virtual Reality App with Guided Gyroscope for Physical Therapy (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
  Stuart Hamilton Ashwika  Agrawal Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School A Low-Cost Computer-Aided Lung Auscultation Apparatus and Automated Diagnosis of Respiratory Illnesses (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
            Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
            1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category    
      Adhip  Raghunathan Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Anonymously Determining Indoor Occupancy Through Human Respiration Byproducts (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
            IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
  Ted McLeod Anav  Mehta Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Inference of Physical Chess Positions through Board Segmentation and Piece Recognition using Convolution Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
      Aditya  Rao Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award A Deep Learning Approach to Detect and Classify Skin Cancers (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
  Kent Paris Albert  Chang 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category COVID Cases On-Site Tracking Device (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
      Sonia  Chang 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category COVID Cases On-Site Tracking Device (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
      Adalia  Lee 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category COVID Cases On-Site Tracking Device (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
      Sanika  Patil Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Application of Stackelberg game theory to improve accuracy of outcome predictions for pediatric AML patients (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
  Hugo Steemers Swara  Kadam 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Seismon - An interactive seismic detector to guide schoolchildren through earthquakes (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
            1st Place Award - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch    
      Rajasi  Laddha Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effects of Iron and Vitamin C in Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 10
      Shrinandan Krishna Narayanan 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 vAssist: A Device for the Visually Impaired to Improve In-Store Shopping using Computer Vision and AI enabled Routing (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
            Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
            1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
            ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award    
      Rohan  Tirumala Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effects of Iron and Vitamin C in Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 10
  Brandon Wilson (mentor) Ishani  Das Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair A Novel Examination of the Influence of Genes Linked to Comorbidities on the Development of Diabetic Retinopathy (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 10
            1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category    
Homestead High School Gary Auten Vivek  Bharati Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category A Mobile Phone-Based Indoor Situational Awareness and Walking Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
  Sam Fung Hemal  Kurani ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award Noninvasive pathogen detection device to monitor the environment and test for pathogens including COVID-19 virus (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
            Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"    
      Hetal  Kurani ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award Noninvasive pathogen detection device to monitor the environment and test for pathogens including COVID-19 virus (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
            Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"    
  John Shelby Anirudh  Venkatraman Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Using Machine Learning to Optimize Drug Discovery and Development to Counter Viral Proteins (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
  Kathleen Shreve Kinjal  Govil Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Evaluation of temporal subtraction techniques in image recognition machine learning models for wildfire detection (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
  Ed Taylor Arnuv  Tandon Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category Deep neural networks for recovering tear film thickness profiles from hyperspectral interferograms. (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
  Kevin Tibbs Claire Tianyi Chen Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute A Search For Planet Candidates in Kepler Data with Deep Neural Networks (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 12
  Andrea Westgate Nathaniel Sarin Thomas 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Using a Mask-Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) to detect and classify waste (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
Lynbrook High School Anshul Agarwal Tanvi  Chukka Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category A novel watch to monitor and manage stress during shelter in place (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      Priyanka  Supraja Balaji Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category A novel watch to monitor and manage stress during shelter in place (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
  Jeremy Dybdahl Alexander  Zhang 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 Using a novel and efficient method of persistent homology to correct topological errors due to noise in medical scan data (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
            Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
            1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
  Bradley Fulk Laasya  Chukka Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Development of Autonomous Robot that efficiently disinfects spaces using SLAM and 3D point clouds for mapping (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
            ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award    
      Tim  Jing Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School FastFold: Streamlining End-to-End de Novo Deep Learning Protein Domain Prediction on COVID-19 Mutations and other Universal Applications (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
            Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
            1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category    
            $100 for Individual projects, IBM Award    
            $200 and Certificate of Achievement, Excellence in Computer Science Award: Sponsored by SCVSEFA    
  Kenneth Iams Albert  Tam Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category A rapid base-calling tool in nanopore sequencing sensitive to homopolymer errors (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
  Mark Kwong Richard Ruichi Cao 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category A Visual Speech Recognition Algorithm Using An Automated Lip Reader (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
      Kento  Nishi Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category Augmentation Strategies for Learning with Noisy Labels (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
            $200 and Certificate of Achievement, Excellence in Computer Science Award: Sponsored by SCVSEFA    
      Allen Liu Ye 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category A Visual Speech Recognition Algorithm Using An Automated Lip Reader (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
  Lester Leung Krishna  Ajjarapu Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Zenchi: A virtual reality-based remote patient monitoring system for physicians (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
      Tanush  Goel Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair The design and construction of an iterative process using ML models to generate the best inhibitors for a target protein (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
            1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category    
      Elliu  Huang Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Hand Gesture-based Authentication for Smartphones using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
      Shreya  Kakhandiki Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Poacher Activity Detection Device for Wildlife Conservation (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
      Vineeta  Muvvala 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Using artificial intelligence and deep learning to identify covid-19, viral pneumonia, and healthy patients (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
      Mridula  Naikawadi 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Using artificial intelligence and deep learning to identify covid-19, viral pneumonia, and healthy patients (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
      Srikar  Nimmagadda 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category The Design and Construction of an Automatic Polyphonic Music Transcriber (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
      Kavya Manasa Pandrangi Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Zenchi: A virtual reality-based remote patient monitoring system for physicians (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
      Shailesh  Senthil Kumar 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Identifying Intratumoral Heterogeneity in a Microfluidic Tumor Model for Personalized Cancer Therapy (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
            2nd Place $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch    
      Andrew  Yuan Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Using Deep Learning for the Analysis and Prediction of Pneumonia from X-Ray Chest Scan Images (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
      Michael Lichao Yuan Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair AR and VR Haptic Glove (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
            1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
  Yu Liu (mentor) Angela  Hu 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Using Machine Learning and Single Cell RNA-sequencing to Elucidate Genetic Determinants of Heart Failure (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
  Kathleen Loia Cindy  Chou Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Using Machine Learning AI Classification Models to Predict the Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
      Evelyn Mae Hsu Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Using bioinformatics to identify SCCmecA and SCCnonmec mutations in Staphylococcus aureus. (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      Vijay  Krishnamoorthy 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Predicting the Limits of Human Athletic Performance using Novel Mathematical Models (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      Vaishnavi Sai Durga Kunapuli Honorable Mention- $100 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS Indoor Carbon Dioxide Pollution Reduction Through Organic and Economical Paint Using Mine Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
      Akshar  Miriyala Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute Identifying possible long term medical ramifications of space travel due to the severe environment (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      Sumedh  Ranabhor Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute The Effects of Pulsars on Planet Formation (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
      Justin  Tseng Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Fabric densities impact on absorbency a factor in droplet count, an indicator of airborne contamination for COVID-19 (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
      Anne  Xu Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Evaluation of the Effects of Neurological Conditions on Beta-Amyloid Plaque Accumulation in Alzheimers Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
  Thanh Nguyen Anirudh  Bharadwaj 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category A Novel Algorithm for Exoplanet Detection and Verification from Light Curve and Spectral Line Data (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
      Flora  Huang Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Loss of BMPR2-CES1 Signaling is Associated with Oxidative Stress in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 12
            1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category    
  Anoop Singh (PSP) Arnav  Saharan ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award CVI Assist Technology: A device that aids the visually impaired social distance during COVID-19 (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
  David Taylor Ishan  Goyal $100 for Individual projects, IBM Award App-based personalization of guided breathing patterns for affect regulation (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
  Scott VanderVeen Ryan  Liu Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Developing a New Autism Diagnosis Process Based on a Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture Through Analyzing Home Videos (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
            Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
            1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category    
            $500 and Certificate, Regeneron Biomedical Science Award    
Monta Vista High School Colin Anderson Manasi  Ganti Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Using Machine Learning to Measure and Improve Engagement in Online Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
  Sushma Bana Amy  Zheng Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Analyzing the effects of spatiotemporal variability of vegetation on the intensity of wildfires using satellite imagery (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
  Pamela Chow Vivian  Ong Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Automated Plant Growth Chamber for Locations with Low Quantities of Water (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
            1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
      Ananya  Rupanagunta Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category ALS patient risk stratification using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
  John Conlin Ansh  Chaurasia $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award Early Skin Cancer Diagnosis using Convolutional Neural Networks (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
      Samhita  Srivatsan Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category An Efficient Approach to Storage Using Machine Learning, Image Detection and Radio-Frequency Identification (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
  Scott DeRuiter Arya Shriya Srivastava Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award Using Machine Learning Technology to Predict the Growth of Glioblastomas (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
  Renee Fallon Srushti  Batni Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair The effect of decreased pH levels on Haliclona Caerulea as a model of Ocean Acidification on the Porifera species (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
            1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category    
      Gaia  Buller Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Effect of Octocrylene and Changes of Temperature on Zooxanthellae Cells to Model the Harm of Common Sunscreen Ingredient (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
            1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category    
      Ishanvi Naina Kommula IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Mitigating ocean microplastics: Motorized device to extricate microfibers from laundry filters for safe disposal (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
      Christopher  Lee Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Fibrillin-2 Attenuation During Tissue Regeneration (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
      Ashika  Mittal Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair The Effect of Fenugreek on the Size of Hyperglycemic Bombyx Mori Silkworms as a Model for Hyperglycemia (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
            2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category    
      Ojas Atul Sathaye High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) Effects of caffeine consumption on food preference and intake in a Drosophila Melanogaster model (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
      Mridula  Srinivasan 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Investigating the Effects of Withania Somnifera on Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1 (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      Shridhula  Srinivasan 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Investigating the Effects of Withania Somnifera on Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1 (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      Jonah  Tien Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair The Shark: An Ultra-Breathable Mask utilizing Airflow based on a Culmination of Structure-Function Biomimicry Design (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
            1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category    
      Divya  Venkataraman 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Application of Light Therapy on Alzheimer's Disease by Measuring Locomotive Ability in a Drosophila Melanogaster Model (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
            1st Place $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch    
  Debbie Frazier Anusha  Chittari 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Changing eating habits and mitigating climate change: a carbon footprint calculator and tracker for varying foods. (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
      Myung Suh  Choi Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Modeling ADHD in Drosophila: Investigating the effects of glucose on dopamine production demonstrated by locomotion (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
  David Greenstein Arjun  Kashyap Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Using Natural Language Processing and User Feedback to Make a Chatbot That Gives Accurate Answers to Queries (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
            1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
  Akira Hasegawa (PSP) Dylan Chen Ong 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category Predicting Covid-19 From X-Rays With Machine Learning (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 10
  Kyle Jones Anika Kiran Nagavara Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effect of Different Amounts of Potassium Iodide on Asthma in Drosophila Melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
      Chaitra  Raghupathi Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Designing a Hydraulic Turbine to Filter Micro Plastic Produced During PETase Degradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
      Sonia  Swamy Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair BioShield: Eco-friendly Super-Accumulator-Biopolymer based heavy metal filter as plant protector and growth stimulator (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
            1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
  Joe Kim Gavin  Hung Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Lightweight Rice plant disease management mobile application using CNN and leaf color based nitrogen detection (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
      Siddhartha  Mishra Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Lightweight Rice plant disease management mobile application using CNN and leaf color based nitrogen detection (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
      Arnav  Reddy Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Lightweight Rice plant disease management mobile application using CNN and leaf color based nitrogen detection (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
      Yashnil  Saha 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Developing a Novel, Accurate Machine Learning based Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification Model for Toddlers (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
  Atul Singh (PSP) Kaushal  Amancherla 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category Machine Learning Model To Detect Diabetic Retinopathy In Eye Images (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
  Alan Wong Milind  Maiti 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis using Deep Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
      Jai  Sharma 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis using Deep Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
      Christopher T Sun 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis using Deep Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) 10