Privately Sponsored Project
Project Awards 2021
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privately Sponsored Project | Geetika | Bansal | Ryan | Bansal | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | The research and development of an AI solution to reduce crashes at stop-signs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Daniel Qi | Sun | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | The research and development of an AI solution to reduce crashes at stop-signs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Rik | Derynck (mentor) | Kingshuk | Daschowdhury | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Simulating the Effects of DNA Glycosylase Repair on Benzo[a]pyrene Induced TP53 Mutations Using a Computer-based Model (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Tevin | Wang | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Simulating the Effects of DNA Glycosylase Repair on Benzo[a]pyrene Induced TP53 Mutations Using a Computer-based Model (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Raymond | Yap | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Simulating the Effects of DNA Glycosylase Repair on Benzo[a]pyrene Induced TP53 Mutations Using a Computer-based Model (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Fang | Fang (PSP) | Claire | Xu | 2nd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Emotion Detector During COVID-19 Pandemic (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Tanu | Garg (PSP) | Disha | Gupta | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | An Algorithm Designed to Determine Eligibility for Genetic Screening of Breast Cancer Leading to Early Identification (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Tanvi | Sivakumar | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | An Algorithm Designed to Determine Eligibility for Genetic Screening of Breast Cancer Leading to Early Identification (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Jian | Ge (mentor) | Cindy Jingru | Wang | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Studying the fundamental stellar mass-radius relation in low mass binaries identified in Kepler-MARVELS survey data (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Akira | Hasegawa (PSP) | Dylan Chen | Ong | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predicting Covid-19 From X-Rays With Machine Learning (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Padjama | Khulbe (PSP) | Aarav | Karasi | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Odd Jobs: The design and construction of an app that allows you to find work and hire workers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Dhananjay | Khulbe | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Odd Jobs: The design and construction of an app that allows you to find work and hire workers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Hari | Kosaraju (PSP) | Reshma | Kosaraju | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Determining Role of Ecotropic Viral Integration Site 1 in Anti-Leukemic Drug Resistance Using Gene Expression Analysis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Varinder | Kumar (PSP) | Aaditya Ryan | Mahajan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | FireBrigade (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Akshay Ethan | Mahajan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | FireBrigade (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Zaiyi | Liao (mentor) | Tse Kai | Chan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Computational Platform to Optimize Irrigation for Maximum Farming Yield using Deep Learning and Dynamic Modeling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Yu | Liu (mentor) | Angela | Hu | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using Machine Learning and Single Cell RNA-sequencing to Elucidate Genetic Determinants of Heart Failure (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Wayne | Liu (PSP) | Nathan Tsai | Liu | Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | A Scientific Method to Demystify the Lightning Caused 2020 August Complex Fire & EVT Theorem to Predict the Extreme Event (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Qing | Lu (PSP) | Heidi | Lu | Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | New Methodology To Accelerate Reinforcement Learning For Autonomous Driving Through Imitation Learning & Human Driving (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Olivia | Xu | Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | New Methodology To Accelerate Reinforcement Learning For Autonomous Driving Through Imitation Learning & Human Driving (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Saitanuja | Madhavapeddi (PSP) | Anish Sriram | Bhethanabotla | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Advent - A comprehensive low cost automatic ventilator and vital signs monitor (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jeru | Manuel (mentor) | Sareena | Garg | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Role of hMLH1 gene in colorectal carcinoma (CRC). (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Lei | Ming (PSP) | Nathan Xuyan | Ming | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Effect of Different Commercially Viable Sources of Sugar on the CO2 Production of Yeast Fermentation in the Production o (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Rachna | Pandey (PSP) | Viraj | Pandey | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Investigating the Photoluminescence Signature of Graphene Quantum Dots in the Conservation of Endangered Species (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| First place (tie)- $125 and framed cert, Dave Parker | |||||||
| Anoop | Singh (PSP) | Arnav | Saharan | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | CVI Assist Technology: A device that aids the visually impaired social distance during COVID-19 (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Atul | Singh (PSP) | Kaushal | Amancherla | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning Model To Detect Diabetic Retinopathy In Eye Images (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Nisha | Talagala (PSP) | Danika Anne | Gupta | Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Early Detection of Alzheimers Via Machine Learning with Multi-Modal Data (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Shida | Tan (PSP) | Ava Tan | Bhowmik | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Developing a Home-Built Metrology to Analyze Oral Fluid Droplets and Aerosol and Evaluate the Efficacy of Mask Materials (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $50 to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | |||||||
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $250 and Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Jinlin | Wang (PSP) | Brenna | Ren | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Identifying Different Types of Lesions in CT Scan Images Using Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Kallie | Wang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Identifying Different Types of Lesions in CT Scan Images Using Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Hong | Wei (PSP) | Sofia | Shah | 3rd Place $75 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | Predicting and Modeling a Dog's Behavior Based on Data from the Perspective of the Dog (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Tiffany | Zhu | 3rd Place $75 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | Predicting and Modeling a Dog's Behavior Based on Data from the Perspective of the Dog (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Brandon | Wilson (mentor) | Ishani | Das | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | A Novel Examination of the Influence of Genes Linked to Comorbidities on the Development of Diabetic Retinopathy (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||