Fremont Union High School District

Project Awards 2018

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Cupertino High School  Eric Ferrante  Rehaan  Ahmad 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category An Adiabatic Quantum Computation Based Binary Classifier For Detection of Heap Spraying Attacks (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award    
        Nithya Sri Attaluri $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis Machine Learning Algorithm to Detect Breast and Prostate Cancer Using Novel Anti-Carbohydrate Antibodies as Biomarkers (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
              Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter    
        Utkarsh  Tandon Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Early-onset Schizophrenia Detection via Novel Diffusion Tensor Machine Learning of Cingulate-Orbitofrontal Tractography (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 12
              1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category    
              ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award    
        Mokshith  Voodarla 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category TionAI: Understanding Human Emotion through an Ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks for better AI-Human Interaction (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              5 Students will be awarded a check for $100 each, IBM Award    
        Brian  Yang 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category An Adiabatic Quantum Computation Based Binary Classifier For Detection of Heap Spraying Attacks (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award    
   Scott Keller  Aayush  Bhat 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category SilverTongue (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
        Ojas  Mor 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category SilverTongue (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
   Kenji Mitchell  Ethan  Hsiao Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Molecular Dynamics of Metal Nanoparticles with Caveolae for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Membrane Microdomains (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              Team award - $300 total and Framed Certificates of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS    
        Charles Jialiang Huang Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Molecular Dynamics of Metal Nanoparticles with Caveolae for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Membrane Microdomains (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              Team award - $300 total and Framed Certificates of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS    
   Amy Ripp-Andrzejewski  Sripad  Sureshbabu 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Diagnosis and Multiple Stage Prognosis for Multiple Forms of Dementia in Middle Aged Adults Using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
   Mark St. John  Varun  Shenoy $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis Deepwound: Automated Postoperative Wound Assessment and Surgical Site Surveillance through Convolutional Neural Networks (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              3rd Place Student Award: $240 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter    
   Daniel Stavis  Vardhan Kishore Agrawal 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Autonomous Light Pole Monitoring Platform Using Drones (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Pranav D Atreya 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Portable Ultrasonic Organ Tomography for Early Detection of Tumors and Blockages (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
              HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps    
        Aakash  Karvat Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize How does changing pH levels of chlorinated water impact the yield of disinfection byproducts? (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
        Ashish Prakash Rao Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Reinforcement Learning Methods for Automated Theorem Proving (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
        Rachit  Sharma Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Reinforcement Learning Methods for Automated Theorem Proving (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
        Aastha  Upadhyay Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize How does changing pH levels of chlorinated water impact the yield of disinfection byproducts? (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
   April Williams  Siddharth  Mahesh 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Devising an Artificial Neural Network to Predict Heart Disease Progression (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
Homestead High School  Debbie Curley  Kaushal  Raghu 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effect of Various Sedatives on the Heart Rate of Daphnia Magna (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
   John Shelby  Joshua  Lee 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Inexpensive, Fluid Convection-Based Central Processing Unit Cooler (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
   Sukhraj Sohal  Anisha  Chandra 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Constructing a Paper-Based Microfluidic Device to Monitor and Diagnose Deficiencies in Developing Nations (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
              Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems    
        Aarya  Gupta 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Constructing a Paper-Based Microfluidic Device to Monitor and Diagnose Deficiencies in Developing Nations (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
              Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems    
        Anke  Hao Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course. Completion of Course Awards Additional $50., United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Bullying Perceptions among Deployed Military Personnel--the Impact on Exhaustion/Burnout and Organizational Commitment (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
              Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association    
        Reet  Mishra 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Constructing a Paper-Based Microfluidic Device to Monitor and Diagnose Deficiencies in Developing Nations (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
              Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems    
   Jessica Wakefield  Josh  Sanyal 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Developing and Analyzing Machine Learning Models for the Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer, HPV, and CIN (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
Lynbrook High School  Olga Bronin  Irene  Chu $50 and Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association Different intensities of Light Emitting Diodes on the growth of silkworms (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Caitlin  Leong $50 and Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association Different intensities of Light Emitting Diodes on the growth of silkworms (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Rohan  Mehrotra $1500 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis On-Demand Electrically Controlled Drug Release from Resorbable Nanocomposite Films (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 12
              1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category    
              5 Students will be awarded a check for $100 each, IBM Award    
              IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
   Nicole DellaSantina  Myra  Cheng 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Change Detection Using Multi-Scale Radiomic Features of Magnetic Resonance Images (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 12
        Bryan Hau-Ping Chiang Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Illuminating Gene Dysregulation in Cancer: Deep Learning Identification of Disrupted Transcription Factor Binding Sites (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 12
              High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize    
              1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category    
   Kenneth Iams  Laasya  Chukka Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Low Cost Alternative for Skin Cancer Detection with the Use of Machine Learning App (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
        Michael Lichao Yuan $ 500 to the winning student or team in high school Physical Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize PID Control Ball on Plate System (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize    
              2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
              IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
   Jason Lee  Jasper  Huang Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category A Comparison of Machine Learning Classifiers for Acoustic Gait Analysis (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 12
   Lester Leung  Milan  Ganai Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Achieving Improved Accuracy Model for Jet Energy Measurements in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using Machine Learning. (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Raghav  Ganesh 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Developing a Novel Machine Learning based Algorithm to Help Diagnose Parkinson's Disease by analyzing vocal dysphonia. (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
              Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP)    
        Avinash Kalpit Jain 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category An Intuitive and Functional Braille Screen (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Lakshay  Maharana 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Developing a Novel Machine Learning based Algorithm to Help Diagnose Parkinson's Disease by analyzing vocal dysphonia. (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
              Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP)    
        Vinay  Senthil 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category An Intuitive and Functional Braille Screen (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
   Kathleen Loia  Rohan  Koodli $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis EternaBrain: A Deep Learning Algorithm for RNA Molecule Design Using Move Sets from An Internet-scale RNA Videogame (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 12
   Jessica Lu  Neha  Mannem 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effect of P. fluorescens and R. ruber on the Rate of Low-Density Polyethylene Degradation in Aquatic Environments (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Saniya  Patel 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effect of P. fluorescens and R. ruber on the Rate of Low-Density Polyethylene Degradation in Aquatic Environments (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Charu  Vijay 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effect of P. fluorescens and R. ruber on the Rate of Low-Density Polyethylene Degradation in Aquatic Environments (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
   Isaac Pallone  Iain  Jung Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize The effect of NaOH,NaHCO3,and NH4OH on bleaching Briareum spp. living in seawater with current oceanic levels of H2C03 (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society    
        Neil  Patel 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The effect of the Streptomyces Thermoautotrophicus, Mycorrhizae, Rhizobia on a pea plant's rate of photosynthesis. (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
        Akshanth Bhargav Srivatsa Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize The effect of NaOH,NaHCO3,and NH4OH on bleaching Briareum spp. living in seawater with current oceanic levels of H2C03 (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society    
        Claire  Tang 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Virtual Ear: Hearing Assistant for the Hearing Impaired Using Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Francis  Tang 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Virtual Ear: Hearing Assistant for the Hearing Impaired Using Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Nevin Neil Thombre 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The effect of the Streptomyces Thermoautotrophicus, Mycorrhizae, Rhizobia on a pea plant's rate of photosynthesis. (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
Monta Vista High School  Sushma Bana  Matthew  Cho 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Intelligent Decision-Making for Autonomous Cars with Distributed Reinforcement Learning and Self-Trained Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              5 Students will be awarded a check for $100 each, IBM Award    
              Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award    
              Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award    
        Triya  Roy IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers A portable and cost-effective Non-Mydriatic camera capable of taking a colored and red free image of the Ocular Fundus (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
   Nora Beamon  Aditi  Singh 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Testing Von Restorff Effect In Long-Term Free Memory Recall (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
   Scott DeRuiter  Tae Kyu  Kim 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Context-aware Paraphrase Suggestion System using Recurrent Neural Networks with Autoencoder and Quality Classifier (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              5 Students will be awarded a check for $100 each, IBM Award    
        Raj Sekhar Reddy Palleti Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School What Properties Define the Eulerian Sequence? A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
              Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta    
              Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award    
        Matthew Harrison Park 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Diagnosing Systemic Diseases With Fingernail Image Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              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    
        Suhas  Prasad Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School What Properties Define the Eulerian Sequence? A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
              Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta    
              Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award    
        Jeremy  Tien 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category An Automated Tool to Classify and Categorize "Methods and Materials" Sections Across Biomed Papers using Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
   Renee Fallon  Aadithya R. Anumala 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Insertion of tp73 into mutp53-type cancer E. coli model effect on cisplatin induced cell mortality. (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
              HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps    
        Ramya Ulhas Chamkeri Plaque and letter of invitation to Tour of Stanford Chemistry Department Labs, Stanford University Chemistry Department Neutralizing the Odor of a Cheese Brine with a Thiol-Neutralizing Solution (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Anika  Cheerla Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Deep, Multimodal Representation Learning for Pan-Cancer Prognosis Prediction (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              Second Place: University of Toronto "Swag Bag", University of Toronto Award    
              1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Seung Ah  Choi 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Modeling a Bioluminescent LED that Enhances the Brightness of Photobacterium Phosphoreum with Optimized Dye - Sensitized (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
              Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter    
        Akash  Dasgupta 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Is it Possible to Detect Fake Tungsten-based Gold Bullion with Non-Destructive testing? (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter    
        Athena F. Fung Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Palmitate: Reducing Proliferative Properties of Cancer Cells Through the Dephosphorylation of Sphingosine 1-Phosphate (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
              Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter    
        Ashvin Saikumar Irrinki Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category A Novel Solution to Regrow Nerves & Retain Memory for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Using Sheath Cells on C. Elegans (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Prabhat Kumar Jandhyala Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Epigenetic Effects of Groundwater Pollutant 2,6-Dichlorobenzamide in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Vivek Vijay Kamarshi 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Investigation of Tacrolimus-Induced Changes in Fusogenicity and Pathogenicity of Varicella Zoster Virus (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
              Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology    
        Chetan  Mokkapati 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effect of Light Pollution on the Circadian Rhythm in Drosophila melanogaster. (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Vishnu  Palaniappan Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Subacute Neurotoxic Effects of Atrazine in C. elegans. (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Aditya Sunil Shah ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award Supervised machine learning framework for automatic detection & classification of Glioblastomas using SVM-RFE algorithm (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Amrita Samhita Shankar Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category The effect of probiotics on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease modeling via Atx-2 C.elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
        Manik Keshav Taneja Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association Are stress and anxiety related issues underreported among Asians at competitive high schools? (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Michelle Yue Zhu $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis A Novel, Portable, Brain Cooling Device to Increase Brain Recovery After Cardiac Arrest (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
              IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
   Debbie Frazier  Isha  Chakraborty GR 9-12: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award Forest Fire Detection with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Generative Adversarial Networks using Drone (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
   Pooya Hajjarian  Roya  Ahmadi 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Wildfire Prevention Through a Self Sustained Measurement Reporting and Analysis System (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Riya  Chatterjee 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Genetic Disease Detection in Diverse Populations using Facial Recognition and Deep Learning Methodologies (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
              ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award    
   Kyle Jones  Anokhi Jitesh Shah $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award Adsorption of Copper Ions from Wastewater Using a Low Cost Modified Starch Polymer for Water Purification (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize    
        Ashwatha  Tulsi Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Particulate Organic Matter Production by Sea Sponges Incorporated with Different Concentrations of Crude Oil (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize    
   Joe Kim  Audrey  Cui 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Ovarian Cancer Biomarker Identification from SELDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Datasets Using Machine Learning Methods (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Siddhant  Rao Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category A Deep Learning Approach to Breast Cancer Prognosis via Convolutional Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award    
   Kathleen Koch  Flora  Huang Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Using Big Data Analytics to Correlate Slow Slip Events and Repeating Earthquakes in the Nicoya Peninsula Subduction Zone (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Iris Xinran Xia Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Using Big Data Analytics to Correlate Slow Slip Events and Repeating Earthquakes in the Nicoya Peninsula Subduction Zone (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
   Ted Shinta  Gaurav  Kamath $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance Generating Electricity From The Orbital Ocean Waves (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society    
        Fiona Lin Luo $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award Harvesting body heat from a chair using thermoelectric generators to power a light source (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
   Jenna Smith  Andrew Bakshi Richardson 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Cadence of music to cadence of stride: Effects of listening to varying bpm in music on running speed in the 400 meter (Biological Science and Engineering) 9