Fremont Union High School District
Project Awards 2022
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cupertino High School | Eric | Ferrante | Prarthan | Ghosh | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Computer Vision for Harvesting Potatoes, Onions, and Radishes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Stacey | Morse | Aditya | Rao | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | EyeWalk: A Computer Vision Based Wearable Device to Aid the Navigation of the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $50 gift check and certificate, Access Braille Awards | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Kent | Paris | Ishani | Das | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Decision Support Tool to assist doctors with patient diagnosis and treatment (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Hugo | Steemers | Akshay | Attaluri | $500 and Certificate, Regeneron Biomedical Science Award | Utilizing Optimal Survival Trees and Recursive Partitioning to Classify Low Grade Glioma Patients into Risk Categories (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Anagha | Badriprasad | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | NeutralNet:Renal Cancer Recall Compensation via a Fine-grained Lagrangian DNN Loop with Universal Anti-bias Applications (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Sneha | Muppalla | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | Detecting Deepfakes Using Machine Learning on Audio to Prevent Misinformation that has a Harmful Impact on Humanity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Siddharth | Navale | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Determining Food Spoilage Using a Regression Model of Byproducts from Enzymatic Breakdown of Fats and Proteins (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Gaurwik | Paul | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Profiling ACE2 receptor diversity to uncover novel SARS-CoV-2 animal reservoirs (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Adhip | Raghunathan | 3rd Place $75, Valley Water Awards HS | Utilizing Light Diffraction to Cheaply and Autonomously Detect Microplastics in Our Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Fremont High School | Jeske | Glenn | Ranjana | Rajagopalan | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | DeepLIFT Analysis of Transcription Factor Expression in Cancer (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Micaela | Kaye | Diya | Kadadi | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Developing Biowaste-Derived Solutions for Prophylactic Forest Fire Response (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Homestead High School | Dara | Alleyne-Levy | Hemal | Kurani | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | A novel AI-based algorithm for accurately reporting patient clinical results using physiological and environmental data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and business card to complete award ($50 gift card) and letter of congratulations, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| Sam | Fung | Anirudh | Venkatraman | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | De Novo Nanobody Design with Neural Networks, AlphaFold, and Docking Algorithms (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Daniel | Nunez | Roshni | Parulekar-Martins | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Adding Therapeutic Pro-Angiogenic Exosomes for Enhancing Natural Ischemic Stroke Recovery Using Human Fibroblast Cells (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Lynbrook High School | Anshul | Agarwal | Anish Krishna | Lakkapragada | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Accelerating the Pace of Autism Diagnoses with Machine Learning Models (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Andrew | Yuan | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Age Determination of Open Clusters using Isochrone-Fitting through a Novel Machine Learning Model (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Nicole | DellaSantina | Ojas | Gupta | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Humanin and Alzheimer's: a novel approach to delay onset of, prevent, and potentially cure AD in C. Elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Bradley | Fulk | Keshav High | Soni | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Speech Emotion Recognition - enhancing communication for autistic patients (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | |||||||
| Mark | Kwong | Riya Anjali | Abiram | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the Causes of Structural Alterations in Human Cancer (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Lester | Leung | Anish Sriram | Bhethanabotla | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM-Upper Division | Heart Scope: A Novel way of predicting heart disease using Machine Learning and Arduino (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Russell | Chen | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Low-Cost AI-Based Fall Detection System For Elderly Safety Application (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Tanvi | Chukka | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Utilizing Quantum Predictive Analysis and Support Vector Machines for Efficient Detection of Coronary Artery Disease (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Antone | Jung | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Effect of Various Concentrations of GA3 on Lignification and Growth of Bambusa multiplex (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Snehil | Kakani | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | STEAM Force - Accessible and Interactive Learning App for Underprivileged kids (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Radha | Paravastu | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Utilizing Quantum Predictive Analysis and Support Vector Machines for Efficient Detection of Coronary Artery Disease (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jessica | Lu | Alan | Tian | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Integrating Transformer Model of Proteins with Linear Neural Networks to Predict the Pathogenicity of Missense Mutations (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Thanh | Nguyen | Sanchitha | Dinesh | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM-Upper Division | A deep reinforcement learning model to approximate large eddy simulations for turbulence closure problems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Isaac | Pallone | Avani | Khanvilkar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Measuring the Effects of Different Halophytes on the Salinity of Soil (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Certificate, Association Of Women Geoscientists (Regional) | |||||||
| Rhea | Kumar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Measuring the Effects of Different Halophytes on the Salinity of Soil (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Certificate, Association Of Women Geoscientists (Regional) | |||||||
| Edwin Yicheng | Li | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | Design and construction of a dry food dispenser for disabled people to eat easily. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Aditya | Mehrotra | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | Design and construction of a dry food dispenser for disabled people to eat easily. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Sriman | Ratnapu | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | Design and construction of a dry food dispenser for disabled people to eat easily. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Ethan | Shih | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Measuring the Effects of Different Halophytes on the Salinity of Soil (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Certificate, Association Of Women Geoscientists (Regional) | |||||||
| Luke Yuchen | Zhao | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Single-cell transcriptomic analysis reveals genetic drivers of fast/slow motor neuron identity (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Monta Vista High School | Sushma | Bana | Yashnil | Saha | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Automating Human Sleep Staging Analysis from Polysomnographic Recordings with a Discrete Hidden Markov Predictive Model (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Amy | Zheng | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A machine learning approach to exoplanet prediction through pattern analysis using the transit method (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| John | Conlin | Samhita | Srivatsan | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | Projecting the Urban Heat Island Effect Using Historical Climate Trends and Land Use-Land Cover (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Iona Zhuoran | Xia | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determining The Role of Wnt Pathways in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Associated Right Heart Failure (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Scott | DeRuiter | Milind | Maiti | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Geocentric Pose Analysis of Satellite Imagery Using Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Jai | Sharma | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Geocentric Pose Analysis of Satellite Imagery Using Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Christopher T | Sun | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Geocentric Pose Analysis of Satellite Imagery Using Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Renee | Fallon | Ethan | Liu | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Effect of Iron in Drinking Water as a Potential Inducer of Cataracts (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Mridula | Srinivasan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using Drosophila Melanogaster to Model the Effects of Helianthus Annuus on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Shridhula | Srinivasan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using Drosophila Melanogaster to Model the Effects of Helianthus Annuus on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kyle | Jones | Iniyaa | Suresh | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of Lactobacillus Acidophilus on glucose intolerance induced by artificial sweeteners in Drosophila Melanogast (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Joe | Kim | Aaryan | Doshi | 4th place Valley Water Items, Valley Water Awards HS | A Deep Learning Pipeline for Drought Assessment using Spatial Satellite Images and Dense Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Aakash | Kumar | $100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award | Applying adversarial networks to create perturbation resistant image recognition for Self Driving cars (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Praneel | Shah | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Bio W.H.E.B: A Low-Cost Device For On-Site Resource Production On Future Lunar Habitats (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Kathleen | Koch | Amanjyoti | Mridha | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The usage of deep neural networks for generating large artificial image datasets from limited data. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Lora | Lerner | Rishab Reddy | Perati | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Predictive Modelling using Urinary Biomarkers for Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Ted | Shinta | Krishiv | Bhatia | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Voice-interactive kitchen helper robot for the visually impaired and handicapped (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Anusha | Chittari | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | Health Coach: a chatbot catering dietary and exercise recommendations to those with pre-diabetic and diabetic conditions (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||