Monta Vista High School

Project Awards 2022

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
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