Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District
Project Awards 2026
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Gatos High School | Lalitha | Maruvada | Akio Rylen | Takase | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Interactive Multi-Scale Analysis of Population Density and Canopy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Alexander | Tsykora | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Interactive Multi-Scale Analysis of Population Density and Canopy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Jack | Zhang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Interactive Multi-Scale Analysis of Population Density and Canopy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Cathy | Messenger | Naitik | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | ALCAS: An Allosteric Language-Based Computational Architecture for De Novo Synthetic Enzyme Design (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Julian | Juan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | PathoGraph-DL: Multi-Modal GNNs for Predicting Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Global Agricultural Pathogen Networks (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Max | Kovalenko | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Early Detection of Alzheimer's Through Neural Network Analysis of Acoustic and Linguistic Speech Features (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Arnav | Mana | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | PhysioGraph: Decoding Latent Spatiotemporal Topologies of Prodromal Cardiogenic Shock in STEMI via Recurrent Gated GATv2 (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kaitlyn Lan Anh | Phan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Mechanistic and Kinetic Analysis of Thermal Plastic Degradation Pathways and Biodegradable Coating Efficacy in Fragmenta (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Brandon | Wong | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Early Detection of Alzheimer's Through Neural Network Analysis of Acoustic and Linguistic Speech Features (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Wesley Cheuk-Wing | Wong | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A GPT Controlled Simulation-Based Reinforcement Learning Pipeline for Real World Embodied AI (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Saratoga High School | Jennifer | Lee | Elaine Youyuan | Che | Exceptional Project- Betterment of Humanity, $150 Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research | Designing a New Algorithm to Reduce Social-Media Overuse and Improve Teen Well-Being (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Mason | Cheng | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Computationally Discovering the Effect of Natural Product Structure on Inhibiting EptA-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Alicia Tianyun | Huang | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Rabies Virus Screening Using RT-LAMP Technique: Optimizing a Rapid Low-Cost Portable Kit (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Fiona | Liu | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Modeling the Economic and Emissions Impact of Solar Photovoltaics Adoption in Santa Clara County (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Shreya | Nabar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Methyl Donor Induced Stress Tolerance and Potential Epigenetic Effects in Rapid Cycling Plants (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Mikul | Rana | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Computer Vision Integrated Hand Exoskeleton to Enhance Grip and Mobility in Individuals with Dexterity Impairments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Alvin | Shen | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Electrophysiology-Based Pacemaker System Integrating Deep Reinforcement Learning For Cardiac Arrhythmia Management (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
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| Christine | Tran | Alan | Rong | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | End-to-End Scalable Autoencoders for Robust Wireless Communications (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||