Harker School-Upper Campus
Project Awards 2021
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Miriam | Allersma | Tiffany | Chang | Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | Optimizing the Detection of Signals From Very High Energy Gamma Ray Bursts (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Martin | Baynes | Dawson | Chen | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Intelligent Robotic Irrigation System -- I.R.I.S. -- for Urban Grass Environments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Mark | Brada | Sasvath M. | Ramachandran | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Spectral and Efficiency Analysis of Solar Cells through Polluted Air (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Male), $300 and Certificate (GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Nicole | Tian | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Globular Clusters of Virgo Cluster Dwarf Galaxies (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Anita | Chetty | Stephen | Xia | 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 | First-Principles Simulation of 2D Nanomaterial Boron Carbide as a Biosensor for COVID-19 Testing (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement from ASM Materials Education Foundation and Ribbon, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Anu | Datar | Sathvik | Chundru | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Signum: A real-time two-way communication application between sign language users and non-users using CNNs (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 | |||||||
| Amrita | Pasupathy | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Analysis of miRNA in Ovarian Cancer to Identify Potential Biomarkers and Predict Platinum Resistance (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ashley | Ruan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Analysis of miRNA in Ovarian Cancer to Identify Potential Biomarkers and Predict Platinum Resistance (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ella Lindsey | Yee | 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 | Novel Stage Optimized Image Processing to Improve Deep Learning Driven Diagnosis of Early Stage Diabetic Retinopathy (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate and $100 check, and Compete for $1000 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS) | |||||||
| Andrew | Irvine | Gordon | Chen | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Performing Directed Evolution in silico to Develop a Novel Inhibitor for SARS-CoV-2 (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Hari | Kosaraju (PSP) | Reshma | Kosaraju | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Determining Role of Ecotropic Viral Integration Site 1 in Anti-Leukemic Drug Resistance Using Gene Expression Analysis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Wayne | Liu (PSP) | Nathan Tsai | Liu | Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | A Scientific Method to Demystify the Lightning Caused 2020 August Complex Fire & EVT Theorem to Predict the Extreme Event (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Qing | Lu (PSP) | Heidi | Lu | Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | New Methodology To Accelerate Reinforcement Learning For Autonomous Driving Through Imitation Learning & Human Driving (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Olivia | Xu | Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | New Methodology To Accelerate Reinforcement Learning For Autonomous Driving Through Imitation Learning & Human Driving (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Eric | Nelson | Harsh | Deep | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Deciphering Transcriptome-wide Off-targets from CRISPR-guided Base-editors Using Convolutional Neural Networks (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Alex | Hu | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Discovery of Earth Size Exoplanets in Kepler Data Using a Novel GPU Fast Folding Method and a Deep Learning Model (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | |||||||
| Ella Selina | Lan | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | A Novel Deep ML Architecture by Integrating Visual SLAM into Mask R-CNN for Realtime Surgery Video Analysis Utilizing AR (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 for Individual projects, IBM Award | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Krish | Maniar | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | MeniSight: A Machine Learning Progressive Web App for Individualized Prognosis and Early-Detection for Meningioma Tumors (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological 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 | |||||||
| Johnathan Y | Mo | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Machine Learning Approach to Diagnosing Skin Condition in Diverse Skin Types (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Rishab Xinrui | Parthasarathy | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Prediction of Oncogenic Mutation Progression for Targeted Therapy using a Novel Combination of RNNs and Pathway Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Grant Sheridan | Sims | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Machine Learning Approach to Diagnosing Skin Condition in Diverse Skin Types (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kevin | Wang | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Discovery of Earth Size Exoplanets in Kepler Data Using a Novel GPU Fast Folding Method and a Deep Learning Model (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | |||||||
| Alina | Yuan | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Discovery of Earth Size Exoplanets in Kepler Data Using a Novel GPU Fast Folding Method and a Deep Learning Model (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | |||||||
| Robert Yida | Zhang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Machine Learning Approach to Diagnosing Skin Condition in Diverse Skin Types (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Sabrina | Zhu | Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Hybrid Model: A Highly Accurate Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease Severity by Combining MRI Brain Scans and Assessment Scores (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Mike | Pistacchi | Manasa Hari | Bhimaraju | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Atmosome: A Comprehensive Approach to Understanding the Personal Atmospheric Exposome (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $300 and Certificate (GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Shounak | Ghosh | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Robust EKG Classifier Resistant to Adversarial Attacks (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Vienna | Parnell | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Design and Implementation of Origami-Inspired Biomedical Microrobots Through Computer Visualization and 3D Modeling (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kate | Schafer | Sriram Venugopal | Bhimaraju | 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 | SAAGARA: A 2-pronged solution to protect coral reefs with a sunscreen analysis app & ocean-safe chemical-adsorbing beads (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Chris | Spenner | Rohan Tan | Bhowmik | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Spatio-Temporal Artificial Intelligence Network for Respiratory Disease Exacerbation Prediction and Telelehealth (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and business card to complete award ($50 gift card) and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Brian | Chen | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Unearthing Deep Earthquakes: A Novel Visualization Method to Detect Mantle Earthquakes Using the Sn/Lg Theory (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | |||||||
| Alisa | Grebin | $50 High School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society | Can Mulch be Effective Against Stopping the Spread of Wildfires and Prevent the Growth of Additional Flammable Material? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Prakrit | Jain | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Automated, Algorithmic Approach to Wildlife Range Mapping (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Alexa | Lowe | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | An MFCC Spectrogram-based Convolutional Neural Network for Urban Environmental Sound Classification (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Ishaan | Mantripragada | GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Energy Efficient Robotic Motion Planning on Deep Learning Hardware (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sunjum Singh | Sanghari | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Which wavelength of light in a turbidimeter is the most effective at accurately determining the turbidity of a solution? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Saloni | Shah | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Identifying Resilience Mutations in an Alzheimer's Disease Whole-Genome Sequencing Cohort (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Betsy | Tian | First Place: Paperweight, Patch, Certificate and Office Tour, SETI Institute | The Total Energy and Evolution of Jupiter-like Planets (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Nicholas | Wei | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Uncovering the Black Box: Can Mouse Transcriptomic Data Predict Human Cardiomyocyte Types in hiPSC Differentiation? (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Sidra Yang | Xu | 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 Novel Transformation of Genetic Information into Images for Improved Primary Cancer Classification (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||