East Side Union High School District

Project Awards 2026

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Evergreen Valley High School	Sudhir	Karandikar	Suraj Reddy	Thalamati	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Local Privacy-Preserving Prompt Staging Layer for Large Language Models (LLMs) (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Thao	Nguyen	Aryan	Kumar	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Hybrid EMG-MMG Based Gesture Recognition System for Low-Cost Prosthetic Control (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
	Sarah	Oshuntola	Srikari Vijaya	Tanikella	1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Identifying Irreversible Commitment to Drug Resistance in Melanoma Using Single?Cell Transcriptomic Dynamics (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
	Susanne	Rubio	Ahana	Santhosh Ram	IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2)	AstraSonic: Detecting Near-Ultrasonic Sounds from Household Printers to Mitigate Pet Stress (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
James Lick High School	Gabriela	Huynh	Jachin	Thilak	Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Quantum Bioenergetic Modeling of Mitochondrial Energy Flow for Early Disease Detection (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
Piedmont Hills High School	Rey	Enriquez	Daniel	Alexandrov	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Real-Time Probabilistic Delineation of Flood Warning Polygons to Reduce Flood Alert Fatigue (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Ethan	Effendi	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Real-Time Probabilistic Delineation of Flood Warning Polygons to Reduce Flood Alert Fatigue (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Rikhil	Tanugula	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Real-Time Probabilistic Delineation of Flood Warning Polygons to Reduce Flood Alert Fatigue (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
Santa Teresa High School	Channy	Cornejo	Sairam	Senthilkumar	Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	MAGNET: A Mutation-Aware SE(3) - Equivariant Graph Framework for 3D Binding in KRAS Variants (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
					Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
	Debra	Dimas	Amogh	Dhekane	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	System Hardware Compatibility Engine (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Arjun	Khedkar	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	System Hardware Compatibility Engine (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Chithruby	Vangal Jambunathan	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Supercapacitor Superpowers: Power Surge Management for Solar (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
Silver Creek High School	Hector	Alarcon	Dhyana	Desai	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	OncoTwin: A Multi-Modal, Treatment-Based Digital Twin for Cancer Recurrence Risk Prediction and Biomarker Discovery (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
	Meredith	Montoya de Roos	Saumit Santosh	Pathak	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	A Synthetic Exomoon Dataset and an AI False-Positive Filter to Accelerate Exomoon Discovery (Physical Science and Engineering)	9