Fremont Union High School District
Project Awards 2023
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cupertino High School | Precious | Bagamaspad | Akshay | Anand | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Detecting Speech Disorders and Determining their Severity for Treatment Using CRNNs and Unsupervised Learning Methods (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Vibhor | Narang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Detecting Speech Disorders and Determining their Severity for Treatment Using CRNNs and Unsupervised Learning Methods (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kenji | Mitchell | Anika | Mukherjee | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Utilizing Machine Learning Models to Predict the Malignancy of Mammographic Masses based on BI-RADS Attributes and Age (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Reva | Ukkadam | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Utilizing Machine Learning Models to Predict the Malignancy of Mammographic Masses based on BI-RADS Attributes and Age (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Amanda | Slowikowski | Adhip | Raghunathan | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Leveraging Textural Information from Structured Light Scanning for Automated Classification of Skin Conditions (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Rohan | Shah | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify Triggering Videos that Can Be Detrimental to One's Mental Health (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Fremont High School | Andree | Heyneman | Ritik | Jalisatgi | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Theia: Assistive Environmental Communication via Audio Patterns for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Honorable Mention certificate, Access Braille Awards | |||||||
| Alexander | Mehta | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Theia: Assistive Environmental Communication via Audio Patterns for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention certificate, Access Braille Awards | |||||||
| Homestead High School | Sam | Fung | Youngwoo | Tahk | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | A New Environmentally Conscious Tennis Ball (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Daniel | Nunez | Diya | Bengani | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Wearable Plantar Pressure Sensor for GPS-Based Alert System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| High School Student - Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, Medallion and Award Verification Form (to be filled Online to claim $50 gift card), Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Julian Cloud | Ng-Thow-Hing | Outstanding Project, Certificate (any field and all grades) $200, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | A machine learning algorithm to predict muscle activations during motions performed in real time (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Roshni | Parulekar-Martins | 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 | RandomRibo: A Novel Tool for Transcript-Level Translation Elongation Velocity Determinant Identification at Single Codon (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kathleen | Shreve | Armaan Christopher | Gomes | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Leveraging Genetic Algorithms and Mathematical Wildfire Propagation Models to Determine Optimal Firebreak Placement (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| $100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award | |||||||
| Samuel | Yuan | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Leveraging Genetic Algorithms and Mathematical Wildfire Propagation Models to Determine Optimal Firebreak Placement (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| $100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award | |||||||
| Lynbrook High School | Nicole | DellaSantina | Vaishnavi | Kunapuli | $100 High School Plant Science, California Botanical Society | Examining the Phytotoxic Effects of the Fungal Secondary Metabolite Helvolic Acid on the Growth of Oryza Sativa (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Bradley | Fulk | Radhika | Goyal | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Maxflow-based Algorithm to Determine a Cost-Minimizing Schedule for Emergency Supply Management (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Aadittya | Tiwari | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Where does Quantum Machine Learning have an advantage over Classical Machine Learning on various machine learning models (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Calvin | Zhou | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | BISET: A Blockchain and IoT Sensor-based Emissions Trading System with Integrated Monitoring (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kenneth | Iams | Anish | Lakkapragada | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Novel Methods for Mitigation of Negative Transfer in Multi-Task Learning Models for Emotion Understanding (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Lester | Leung | Anish Sriram | Bhethanabotla | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | RetiVision: An Advanced and Economical Method for Precise Fundus Disease Detection via Retinal Imaging and Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| High School Student - Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, Medallion and Award Verification Form (to be filled Online to claim $50 gift card), Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| Antone | Jung | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Acclimating Lactuca sativa and Cucumis sativus to Assimilate Acetate: a necessary step toward artificial photosynthesis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Natasha | Thombre | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of a Machine Learning Model that Uses Stellar Spectra to Predict Stellar Features (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Anne | Xu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using Machine Learning Models to Predict Onset of Alzheimer's Disease Based on MRI Images (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Henry | Yao | 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 | From Food Waste to Food Guard: Creating A Novel Chitosan Bioplastic with NP Coating & Its Effect on Food Preservation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Thanh | Nguyen | Franklin | Yang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A study of the composition of dust grains in the Crab nebula by analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Isaac | Pallone | Youngjun | An | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of a Wearable to Prevent Students from Falling Asleep in Class (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Haoyuan | Deng | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a semi-automatic shuttlecock collector (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Sammy Mansour | Elzein | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a semi-automatic shuttlecock collector (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Rebecca YiKun | Han | 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards HS | The design and construction of a household water conservation system (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 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 | |||||||
| Andrew Tae Hee | Hong | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Measuring the effects of multiple pharmaceutical and personal care products on the growth rate of three Algae species (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Evelyn Mae | Hsu | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Agrobacterium rhizogenes Versus Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA Transformation in Brachypodium distachyon (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Amanda | Jin | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Measuring the effects of multiple pharmaceutical and personal care products on the growth rate of three Algae species (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Chaaruhaas | Kandregula | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of a Wearable to Prevent Students from Falling Asleep in Class (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Richard | Li | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a semi-automatic shuttlecock collector (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Amrita | Ramabadran | 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards HS | The design and construction of a household water conservation system (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 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 | |||||||
| Ankita Shree | Ramabadran | 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards HS | The design and construction of a household water conservation system (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 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 | |||||||
| Isaiah | Sit | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Measuring the effects of multiple pharmaceutical and personal care products on the growth rate of three Algae species (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Harold | Wang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of a Wearable to Prevent Students from Falling Asleep in Class (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Audrey | Zhu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of a Vertical Surface Cleaner (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Bolang | Zhu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of a Vertical Surface Cleaner (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Kevin | Zhu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of a Vertical Surface Cleaner (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| David | Taylor | Michelle | Zhou | $100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award | Large-scale PageRank on a Single Raspberry Pi (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Monta Vista High School | Julie | Choi | Bhavan Sai | Balusu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Sleep score Diagnosis using a machine learning classification model. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Shiven | Bhatt | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Sleep score Diagnosis using a machine learning classification model. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Jai | Sharma | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Deep Learning Approach to Automated Cell Migration Tracking and Segmentation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Amy Xinyu | Zheng | Certificate of Achievement and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA | A novel machine-learning based model for global flood-forecasting and risk assessment (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| GR 9-12: $40, and Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter certificate, and AWG Banquet invitation, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | |||||||
| John | Conlin | Aakash | Kumar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An end to end system for autonomous 3D model construction to analyze pertinent areas in natural disasters (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Amanjyoti | Mridha | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An end to end system for autonomous 3D model construction to analyze pertinent areas in natural disasters (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Sooraj | Vydyanathan | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An end to end system for autonomous 3D model construction to analyze pertinent areas in natural disasters (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Scott | DeRuiter | Arjun | Shrivastava | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Analyzing the Mislabeling of Quasars in X-ray Catalogs (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Andrew Yurun | Zhou | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Predicting patient outcome and immunotherapy response in bladder cancer using gene expression profiles and deep learning (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Renee | Fallon | Meghana | Somu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using public maternal cell-free DNA and machine learning techniques to predict pregnancies with adverse outcomes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Mridula | Srinivasan | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Robot that Detects Plant Disease Using Convolutional Neural Network (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Shridhula | Srinivasan | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Robot that Detects Plant Disease Using Convolutional Neural Network (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Christopher T | Sun | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating Dementia Onset for Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Through 4D Neuroimaging and Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Joe | Kim | Niranjana | Sankar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Determining Natural Products for Skin Cancer Drugs using Molecular Descriptors and Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Kathleen | Koch | Iona Zhuoran | Xia | 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Discovering Rare Ca II Quasar Absorption Lines with a Neural Network (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Elizabeth | McCracken | Sonia | Swamy | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Curb-AD: Effect of Fenchol-Based Treatments on Reduction of ETS-induced Neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's Disease Pathology (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Jeff | Payne | Sanjay | Chandrasekar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Machine Learning System for Suicide Risk Stratification via Analysis of Linguistic Features in Social Media (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |