Harker School-Upper Campus
Project Awards 2023
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Anita | Chetty | Melody | Yin | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating Sequence Determinants and Their Role in Drosophila Gene Expression using Deep Learning (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Anuradha | Datar | Krish | Arora | $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | FindMySpace: A Cost Effective Carbon Reduction Solution for Parking Using Deep Learning and Edge Devices. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Andrew | Liang | 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 | BeeWell: Developing an AI-based Bee Health Assessment System Utilizing Computer Vision and Acoustic Signal Processing (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Yuqin | Ma | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Building a CNN model to efficiently diagnose COVID-19 from other viral infections using cough MFCCs (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Lily | Shi | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Novel Diagnostic System of Glaucoma Using a Multi-Task Deep Learning Architecture (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Linda | Zeng | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Generative-Adversarial Approach to Translating Low-Resource Languages with Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jian | Ge (mentor) | Kaitlyn | Wang | 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 | Discovery of rare small ultra-short-period exoplanets orbiting F and G dwarfs in Kepler Survey (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, United States Air Force | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Eric | Johnson | Reshma | Kosaraju | 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 | Quantification and Optimization of Circular RNA Stability for Improved RNA Therapeutics (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $375 Cash Prize Voucher from Society for Science and Certificate, Regeneron Biomedical Science Award | |||||||
| Elaina | Khoo | Daniel | Lin | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | First experimentally proven theory that accurately predicts thin film alloy refraction index (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Eric | Nelson | Chiling | Han | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | SSGeoLocator- Finding Geographic Coordinates from a non-GPS Approach/Geopositioning Using Street Name Plates (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Alexander Y | Lan | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Twin Convolutional Neural Network to Decipher the Functional Effect of Genetic Variants in Alzheimer's Disease (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Ella Selina | Lan | 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 | HDformer: A Higher Dimensional Transformer for Diabetes Detection Utilizing Long Range Vascular Signals (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Marina | Peregrino | Aishani | Singh | $500 Grand Prize, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | LiveConv: AI Enabled Live Conversation Across Language Barriers on Augmented Reality Glasses (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Excellence in Engineering Science (all grades) $250, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Ryan Ruien | Zhang | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | PEDS-AI: A Novel UAV Based AI Powered Visual-Acoustic Field Deployed Pest Early Detection and Identification System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Mike | Pistacchi | Ramit Rajan | Goyal | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Developing a model to predict whether single nucleotide variants are likely benign or pathogenic (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Chris | Spenner | Rohan Tan | Bhowmik | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Multi-Modal Wildfire Prediction and Early-Warning System Based on a Novel Machine Learning Framework (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Tiffany | Chang | 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 | Crucial Pathogenic Role of Elevated Mast Cells in Pulmonary Fibrosis Revealed by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Arjun | Gurjar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Clemastine Fumarate on C. elegans in a Hyperglycemic Model of PAD related Oxidative Stress (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Michelle | Wei | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Cycle Spaces of Friends-and-strangers Graphs (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ella Lindsey | Yee | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Novel Hybrid Approach to Extract Circadian Gene Signatures and Uncover Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Jeff | Sutton | Cyrus | Ghane | 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards HS | A Novel Utilization of Ocimum basilicum Mucilage to Reduce Nitrate Runoff (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Isha | Kotalwar | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using 1D CNNs to Classify Heart Arrhythmia from Electrocardiogram Signals (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kairui | Sun | 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards HS | A Novel Utilization of Ocimum basilicum Mucilage to Reduce Nitrate Runoff (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||