Harker School-Upper Campus
Project Awards 2022
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Victor | Adler | Natalie | Gergov | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Game of Life: The Effect of Network Topology on the Lifetime of a Dynamical System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Andrew | Pluzhnikov | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Game of Life: The Effect of Network Topology on the Lifetime of a Dynamical System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Miriam | Allersma | Sonia | Yu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Origami Based Modular Smart Greenhouse Integrated With LED Lighting for Vertical Farming (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Thomas | Artiss | Sasvath M | Ramachandran | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Genomic Reconstruction & Phylogenetic Analyses of Cycloclasticus, a Dominant Microbe at the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Mark | Brada | Nicole | Tian | 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 | The Study of Globular Cluster Systems in Virgo Cluster Dwarf Galaxies (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anita | Chetty | Anika | Pandey | 3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Nanofabrication of a Conductive Hydrogel Smart Bandage for Wireless Localized Wound Healing (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Anuradha | Datar | Ritu Madhura | Belani | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Improved Diagnosis of Language Disorders in Bilingual Children through Computational Modeling of Code-Switching (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| $100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award | |||||||
| Nidhya | Shivakumar | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Real-Time Analysis of Aerial Images Using Deep Learning to Identify Critical Areas in Natural Disasters (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Michelle | Wei | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Reducing Residential Energy Consumption using 2D Spectral Analysis with High-Frequency Non-intrusive Load Monitoring (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $250 and Certificate (GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Jonathan | Xue | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Applying Differential Privacy to Data-Driven Algorithms Using Transfer Learning from Advanced Natural Language Models (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Melody | Yin | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Multi-Module Machine Learning System to Identify Clinically Important Traumatic Brain Injuries in Children (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | |||||||
| Matthew | Harley | Nicholas | Wei | 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 | Investigating Epigenetic Chromosome Modifications in Cardiomyocyte Differentiation for Heart Disease Treatment (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Eric | Johnson | Varun Krishna | Thvar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Project Apollo: Antibodies for Mycobacterium (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Lisa | Michael | Daniel | Lin | 3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | A method to simplify AgZn alloy IR refractive index calculation (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Eric | Nelson | Amruta | Dharmapurikar | 4th place Valley Water Items, Valley Water Awards HS | Predicting Lead Contamination in School Drinking Water Using only Publicly Available Data (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 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 | |||||||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Ashwin | Kuppahally | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | The North American Carbon Flux Model: Predicting Carbon Flux Using Inversely Estimated Data with a Neural Network (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Alexander Yunze | Lan | 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 | Variant Effect Prediction Using Deep Neural Networks for Alzheimer's Disease (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ella Selina | Lan | 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 | Performer: A Novel PPG to ECG Reconstruction Transformer For a Digital Biomarker of Cardiovascular Disease Detection (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Johnathan Y | Mo | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Using an Ensemble of GANs and CNNs to More Accurately Diagnose Skin Conditions in Diverse Skin Types (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Grant | Sims | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Using an Ensemble of GANs and CNNs to More Accurately Diagnose Skin Conditions in Diverse Skin Types (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Robert | Zhang | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Using an Ensemble of GANs and CNNs to More Accurately Diagnose Skin Conditions in Diverse Skin Types (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Marina | Peregrino | Aishani | Singh | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Netra: Utilizing AI on Smart Glasses to Help Visually Challenged People Navigate the World Safely (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Chris | Spenner | Dhruv | Aron | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | Predicting Heart Disease Accurately with Machine Learning and Common Biological Factors (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Rohan Tan | Bhowmik | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Multi-Modal Wildfire Prediction and Personalized Early-Warning System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Tiffany | Chang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Understanding Sex Differences in Major Depressive Disorder through Network Analysis of the Human Connectome (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Brian | Chen | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | First Identification of Cratonic Upper-Mantle Earthquakes in Canada (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Gordon | Chen | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Developing the Next Generation of COVID Vaccines with Enhanced Safety, Precision, and Efficacy (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aeliya Indra | Grover | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | Comparing the Quantity of Micro-plastics in Wild and Farmed Fish (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Emily Isabella | Kwan | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | ReefAtlas: A Novel Machine Learning Model to Predict and Map Coral Reef Bleaching (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Adrian | Liu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Intra-articular (IA) injected agarose beads as a delivery system for Ibuprofen in a simulated arthrofibrotic environment (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Vikram | Mani | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of Alzheimer's disease on microglial gene activation (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Natasha | Matta | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | Evaluating News Outlets' Adherence to Suicide Reporting Guidelines Across Social Media Platforms (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Alina | Yuan | 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 | 27th Compact Hierarchical Trinary System Discovered Using Machine Learning (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sabrina | Zhu | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Novel MiRNA Therapeutic for Drug Addiction: Effects of Oxycodone Self-Administration on Gene Expression in the Rat NAc (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Outstanding Project, Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Sally | Zhu | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM-Upper Division | Using Difference Imaging to Study Photometrically Variable Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||