Cupertino High School

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