Fremont Union High School District
Project Awards 2026
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cupertino High School | Lester | Leung | Uday | Srivastava | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning-Enabled Protein-Docking Target Deconvolution of Small Molecules (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Ted | McLeod | Arjun | Surendar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | ChytridSense: A Stacked Surveillance System for Chytridiomycosis Outbreaks and Spread with Adaptive Sampling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Amanda | Slowikowski | Anirudh | Iyengar | Certificate of Achievement and letter - medallion and cert will be received in mail after student fills out the online link, Yale Science and Engineering Association | A Customized Multi-Modal Neuroimaging Feedback System for Cognitive Restructuring in Adolescents with Anxiety and Stress (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Paarth | Nawani | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | A Multistage Deep Learning Pipeline for Staging and Progression Prediction of Glaucoma (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement + Letter from Sponsor (regarding $25 gift card redeemable online + internship opportunity with ASEI Industry Partner + free 1 year membership to ASEI), ASEI Award | |||||||
| Aayushya Ajaykumar | Patel | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Development of a Multimodal Geometry-Aware 6-DoF Robotic Arm for Safe Closed-Loop Cold Plasma Wound Dosimetry (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Daniel | Stavis | Ziya | Ahmad | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | PulsePath: A Transformer-GRU Hybrid Model for Monitoring SV Arrhythmias Using Wearable Arduino ECG for WPW's Patients (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Ayana | Kadkol | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using SSML to Develop an Application & Acoustic Health Index of Dolphins & Whales to Aid Research (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Kovid | Kaushik | GR 9-12: First place, $100 and trophy, Richardson Environmental Awards | STARS Initiative: Strategic Tree-planting for Accelerated Resilience and Sustainability (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Rohan | Keshari | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Sleep Disorder Classification Model based on EEG, Accelolometry, and Heart Rate Measurements (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Netra | Khot | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | PulsePath: A Transformer-GRU Hybrid Model for Monitoring SV Arrhythmias Using Wearable Arduino ECG for WPW's Patients (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kai | Nagashima | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Peripheral Vision Testing and Anomaly Detection Using the Apple Vision Pro (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Rohan | Vellamcheti | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | AI-Powered Analysis to Identify Potential Patient-Specific Therapy for Crohns Disease Using Single-Cell RNA Sequencing (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Fremont High School | Alison | Gee | Raghav | Joshi | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Interpretable Multi-Plane Fusion Transformer for Accurate MRI-Based Knee Injury Detection and Severity Assessment (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Andree | Heyneman | Jia | Rathi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | PhishShield for consumers " N-gram Spam Filter with Explainable Link/QR Screening (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Homestead High School | Dara | Alleyne-Levy | Arhan | Chakravarthy | 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 | Protease-Informed Functional Modeling of the Gut Microbiome Reveals Systemic Disease-Associated Signatures (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Debbie | Curley | Shreya | Sujit | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Assessing The Impact of Extreme Weather on Soil Microbiome (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Natalie | Della Santina | Arjun | Surendra | $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | Bottle of AI: How much water are you drinking? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Daniel | Nunez | Aaron | Huang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Real-Time Perspective-Correct OLED Panel for Vehicle Blind Spot Visualization (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Anjay | Parthasarathy | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | TEI: Novel Satellite Framework Reveals Thermodynamic Threshold That Enables Hurricane RI Before Operational RI Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| John | Shelby | Aditi | Gokul | Exceptional Project- Betterment of Humanity, $150 Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research | MyFlow: Adaptive Pacing using Personalized Statistical Load Modeling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Niloo | Vakili | Adrian Matthew | Ivanov | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A New Formula for Approximating the Sine Function as an Infinite Product (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Lynbrook High School | Anshul | Agarwal | Arnav | Kodavati | 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 | Cost-Effective Fabrication of Biodegradable Paper Towels from Food-Waste Derived Cellulose and Pectin, crosslinked Ca2+ (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nicole | DellaSantina | Diya | Narayanan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Rhizosphere-Activated Fertilization: Dual-Trigger pH & Enzyme-Sensitive Fertilizer Pellets to Prevent Aquatic Dead Zones (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Sathvika | Siva | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Rhizosphere-Activated Fertilization: Dual-Trigger pH & Enzyme-Sensitive Fertilizer Pellets to Prevent Aquatic Dead Zones (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Jeremy | Dybdahl | Benjamin Zhiming | Zhang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fuzzing the Proofs: Designing a Coverage-guided Software to Reveal Vulnerabilities in Zero-Knowledge Proofs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Bradley | Fulk | Ryan | Bansal | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Combinatorial Game and Graph Decisions for Faster and More Accurate Solvers in Discretized Domains (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Andy | Chen | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Structured Context Folding: A Novel Framework for Efficient Long-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kenneth | Iams | Sohil | Rathi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Beyond "Roughly Normal": A Data-Driven Search for Better t-Test Normality Checks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Mark | Kwong | Srinikash | Venkatasalapathi | Second place- $25 Check and Certificate, Access Braille Award | A wearable computer vision system for blind navigation in outdoor environments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Jason | Lee | Jocelyn | Chen | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | pH and Enzyme-Responsive Capsules for Controlled Dye Release in a Simulated Gastrointestinal System (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Ashley Qin | Hein | 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 | Modulation of Neural Stem Cell Fate by Reactive Astrocytes (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| $375 Cash Prize Voucher from Society for Science and Certificate, Regeneron Biomedical Science Award | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Shwetha | Mukkamala | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | pH and Enzyme-Responsive Capsules for Controlled Dye Release in a Simulated Gastrointestinal System (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Lester | Leung | Aarav | Anand | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning-Enabled Protein-Docking Target Deconvolution of Small Molecules (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Avyay | Sadhu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Neuro-Symbolic Adaptive Compression Framework for Efficient and Explainable Edge AI Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Jake | MacMillan | Jennifer | Sahil | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Investigate how the Densities of Protostellar Jets affect the Efficiency of Star Formation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Thanh | Nguyen | Ivy X. | Zan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Design & Development of Origami-Inspired Miniature Soft Robots w/ Programmable Actuation, and Controllable Degradation (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Isaac | Pallone | Carolyn | Altmar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of an Automated Platform that Removes Dirt and Debris from Dirty Dog Paws (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Rohan | Bansal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Design and construction of a vibration-triggered ceiling safety net that protects occupants from falling debris (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Vishwesh | Chinthukumar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Design and construction of a phone holder for classrooms that alerts teachers when a phone has been left on during class (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Pravin | Chokkalingam | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Design and construction of a phone holder for classrooms that alerts teachers when a phone has been left on during class (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Sylvia | Dong | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Ecofriendly Mycelium-Based Insulation Tiles Inspired by Buffalo Skin Optimized for Semi-Temperate Climates (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Shrivaishnavi | Jami | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a device that lets violinists know when their hand is in an ideal position on the string (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Shripriya | Kalbhavi | 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 | Wired for Survival: Modeling Gene Networks to Identify Resilience and Neuron Subtypes in ALS via Graphical Optimization (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Philip | Kohr | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of a Rotary Drone Battery Hot-swapping System to Increase Flight Time for Drone Operators (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Rucha | Kore | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Ecofriendly Mycelium-Based Insulation Tiles Inspired by Buffalo Skin Optimized for Semi-Temperate Climates (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Yuan | Li | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of an Automated Platform that Removes Dirt and Debris from Dirty Dog Paws (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Rishab | Medepalli | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Design and construction of a phone holder for classrooms that alerts teachers when a phone has been left on during class (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Shresth | Mishra | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | PE-QAT: A Parameter-Efficient Quantization-Aware Training Framework for Low-Bit Large Language Models (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Debansh Kumar | Pal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Design and construction of a vibration-triggered ceiling safety net that protects occupants from falling debris (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Ashwin Enjimedu | Rangarajan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Design and Construction of a Sensor-Based Door Lock That Detects and Enforces Knocking (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Aarohi Paresh | Shah | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Design and Construction of a Sensor-Based Door Lock That Detects and Enforces Knocking (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Yasmin | Shaik | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a pad & wearable to give instant feedback on foot position & knee bend angle for surfers (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Samhita | Sriram | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a pad & wearable to give instant feedback on foot position & knee bend angle for surfers (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Wenbo | Xi | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of an Automated Platform that Removes Dirt and Debris from Dirty Dog Paws (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Yunfei (Steven) | Xia | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of a Rotary Drone Battery Hot-swapping System to Increase Flight Time for Drone Operators (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Robert | Yang | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of a Rotary Drone Battery Hot-swapping System to Increase Flight Time for Drone Operators (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Yixuan | Yang | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Ecofriendly Mycelium-Based Insulation Tiles Inspired by Buffalo Skin Optimized for Semi-Temperate Climates (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Joanna | Zhang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a device that lets violinists know when their hand is in an ideal position on the string (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Norman | Tsai | Sohum | Uttamchandani | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Are Hyperspheres the Least Dense Random Packers? -- A Computational Study of Packings in Higher Dimensions. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Monta Vista High School | Julie | Choi | Kevin | Chen | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Optimizing Sustained Drug Delivery: A Novel Alginate-Based Layered Microparticle System for Burst-Release Suppression (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Chloe | He | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | An Assistive Robotic Arm for Independent Eating Assistance (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| First place, $250 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Derek | Liu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Optimizing Sustained Drug Delivery: A Novel Alginate-Based Layered Microparticle System for Burst-Release Suppression (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Theeran | Sathish Kumar | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | An Assistive Robotic Arm for Independent Eating Assistance (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| First place, $250 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Pamela | Chow | Dhruv | Yadati | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Modular Multispectral ASV for High-Resolution Mapping of Co-Occurring Aquatic Stressors: Microplastics and Algae (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Scott | DeRuiter | Jenine | Jain | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Virtual Lifeguard: Real-Time Drowning Detection Using Mobile Computer Vision (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| David | Greenstein | Harmony | Tse | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | AI for Agriculture: A Sound- and Vision-Based Approach to Fruit Quality Assessment (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Kavita | Gupta | Rohan | Agarwal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | From Water to Wattage: Enabling Sustainable Desalination through Osmotic Power Generation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Yutong | Chen | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Precision Medicine Towards Women's Multiple Sclerosis Progression Using Machine Learning Models (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Suhani | Pahuja | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Long-term cardiovascular and mortality risk in patients with pre-existing arrhythmia post SARS-CoV-2 infection (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Kyle | Jones | Sakthi | Satrawada | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Identifying Blood-Based Biomarkers for Onset of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Josh | Kuo | Rishi Abhijit | Salvi | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Evaluating Synthetic Data versus Augmented and Non-Augmented Data for AI-Based Classification of Medical Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Lora | Lerner | Roshan Dev | Saxena | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Hybrid Spatiotemporal Framework for Marsh Climate Forcing: Biogeochemical Thresholds, Flux Prediction, Site Optimization (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Michael | Lordan | Raymond | Feng | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Stress Analysis of Stirling Cryocooler Flexure Springs for Long Space Mission Lifetime (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Supriya | Moore | Tanya | Bandodkar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Modeling Spatiotemporal Plant Yield Dynamics via Fractal Creation of Fibonacci Phyllotaxis Using CNNs & IoT Sensor Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Katherine Liang | Niu | 1st place HS project - $200 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | IoT-Enabled Microfluidic Speed Sensor for Intelligent Natural Gas Pipeline Monitoring via Fluid Mechanics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Lindsey Liang | Niu | 1st place HS project - $200 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | IoT-Enabled Microfluidic Speed Sensor for Intelligent Natural Gas Pipeline Monitoring via Fluid Mechanics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Spandana | Raghav | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Modeling Spatiotemporal Plant Yield Dynamics via Fractal Creation of Fibonacci Phyllotaxis Using CNNs & IoT Sensor Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Alan | Wong | Emilie | Chan | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Adaptive Multimodal Wearable Device for Real-Time Sensory Overload Mitigation and Personalization (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| AliHassan | Hashim | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | SONIC (Signal Operating for Nodal Identification of Compositions) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Rohit | Ramachandran | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Adaptive Multimodal Wearable Device for Real-Time Sensory Overload Mitigation and Personalization (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Horton | Zhu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | SONIC (Signal Operating for Nodal Identification of Compositions) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Terry | Yu | Ishaan | Garg | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Non-Invasive Classification of Respiratory Diseases Using a Sensor Array for Breath Volatile Organic Compound Analysis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Seongjun | Kang | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Non-Invasive Classification of Respiratory Diseases Using a Sensor Array for Breath Volatile Organic Compound Analysis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sumedha | Kumar | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Revolutionizing Renewable Energy Grids: An AI Model for Real-Time Forecasting and Power Optimization (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Parth | Samdadiya | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Non-Invasive Classification of Respiratory Diseases Using a Sensor Array for Breath Volatile Organic Compound Analysis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||