Congratulations to the 2025 Regeneron STS Scholars!

vlog proudly announces the top 300 scholars in the Regeneron vlog Talent Search 2025, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. The Regeneron vlog Talent Search provides students a national stage to present original research and celebrates the hard work and novel discoveries of young scientists who are bringing a fresh perspective to significant global challenges. The 300 scholars and their schools will be awarded $2,000 each.

Scholars were chosen based on their outstanding research, leadership skills, community involvement, commitment to academics, creativity in asking scientific questions and exceptional promise as STEM leaders demonstrated through the submission of their original, independent research projects, essays and recommendations. The 300 scholars hail from 200 American and international high schools and homeschools in 33 states, Washington D.C., Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Switzerland.

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2025 Scholars

Maya Abdelaal, Age: 18
Marine Academy of Technology & Environmental vlog, NJ
Project Title: Assessing Airborne Bacteria Abundance in Sea Foam Aerosols

Laasya Acharya, Age: 17
William Mason High School, OH
Project Title: Implementing a Novel Multimodal Neural Network Approach Using Dynamic Hyperparameter Selection Within an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the Early Detection of Crop Diseases

Esat Acikgoz, Age: 17
Bergen County Academies, NJ
Project Title: Cyanobacteria: Limiting the Bad and Exploiting the Good To Conserve the Environment and Revolutionize Energy

Johnathan Ahdout, Age: 17
John L. Miller Great Neck North High School, NY
Project Title: Contextualizing Data-Sparse QSPR Property Prediction With Categorical Representations Built from Variational Autoencoders

Aafia Ahmed, Age: 17
Elmont Memorial High School, NY
Project Title: JAK2/STAT3 Signaling Pathway Mediates Methylmercury Toxicity in Mouse Astrocyte Neuronal C8-D1A Cell Line

Neel Ahuja, Age: 17
Millburn High School, NJ
Project Title: Reducing Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Water Contamination With Mycorrhizal Hydroponics Plants

Vimala Ruth Anne Albert, Age: 17
Bronx High School of vlog, NY
Project Title: Would a Rose by Any Other Name Really Smell Just as Sweet?: The Effect of First and Last Name Fluencies on Candidate Perception

Vidya Ambati, Age: 17
Albemarle High School, VA
Project Title: Haloperidol Inhibits Inflammasome Activation via the Novel Receptor LAMTOR1 and Reduces the Risk of Rheumatoid and Gouty Arthritides

Liam Aranda-Michel, Age: 18
Lake Oswego High School, OR
Project Title: HemoLens: An Open-Source Pressure Myograph and Cardiac Flow Simulator for Analysis of Native and FRESH 3D Bioprinted Vasculature

Dev Arora, Age: 17
Plano West Senior High School, TX
Project Title: A Novel Reinforcement-Learning Approach to Closed-Loop Blood Glucose Control Using Deep-Q Learning

Asa Ashley, Age: 17
The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and vlog in Kentucky Bowling, KY
Project Title: Derived Magnetite on Nickel Foam as an Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution

Chloe C. Au, Age: 17
Paul Duke STEM High School, GA
Project Title: The Role of Myc in Tunicate Central Nervous System Development

Naima Aubry-Romero, Age: 17
Richard Montgomery High School, MD
Project Title: Modeling, Analysis and Prediction of COVID-19 Dynamics With Interacting Subpopulations and Implicit Behavior Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Fatimah Badoolah, Age: 17
Garden City Park School, NY
Project Title: The Efficacy of Different Dosages of M. charantia and A. indica on Glucose Levels in D. melanogaster

Sanchali Banerjee, Age: 18
Thomas Jefferson High School for vlog and Technology, VA
Project Title: LUSO-GenAI: A Novel Framework Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) To Synthesize Spatial Land Use Strategy Through Economic-Environmental Payoff Optimization

Will Bao, Age: 17
Auburn High School, AL
Project Title: Machine Learning-Driven Discovery of Novel Acoustic Metamaterials for Highly Effective Noise Pollution Mitigation

Suchit Basineni, Age: 18
High Technology High School, NJ
Project Title: El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation Impact on Hurricanes in the North Atlantic Basin

Daanish Bassi, Age: 17
Smithtown High School East, NY
Project Title: Assessing Novel RIPK2-MKK7 Interaction Inhibitors in Prostate Cancer Cell Lines

Prisha Prakash Bhat, Age: 17
Plano East Senior High School, TX
Project Title: Genetic Augmentation of Oryza sativa To Increase Drought and Arsenic Tolerance Through Overexpression of Aquaporin Genes

Joseph Reuben Birnbaum, Age: 18
New Paltz Central High School, NY
Project Title: The Effects of Wildfire Intensity on the Regeneration of Pinus rigida Mill on the Shawangunk Ridge

Anik Bora, Age: 18
American Heritage School, FL
Project Title: Creating a Novel Drought Prediction Model Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Sean Chingiz Borneman, Age: 16
Bloomington High School South, IN
Project Title: Machine Learning-Based Identification of Cognitive Engagement States in EEG Data Driven by Visual Stimulation

Logan Mars Brown, Age: 18
High Tech High North County, CA
Project Title: Closed-Loop Electrochemical CNC Machining for the Democratization of Metal Fabrication

Brandon Cai, Age: 17
Parkland High School, PA
Project Title: Wearable Digital Eyes for Visually Impaired Using Sensor Fusion and Rule-Based Stereo Vision

Sebastian Caillault, Age: 18
Cedar Shoals High School, GA
Project Title: Ropelength Provides New Lower Bounds for the Pearl Number of a Knot

Jolene Cao, Age: 17
Smithtown High School East, NY
Project Title: Synthesis of Stable and Magnetically Responsive Magnetite/Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots for Programmable Light Polarization

Emma Amalia Carotenuto, Age: 17
Sacred Heart Academy, NY
Project Title: The “Sunset Effect” Among Nursing Home and At-Home Patients in a Latinx Community

Ishana Chadha, Age: 17
Commack High School, NY
Project Title: Understanding Neuronal Migration in Brain Development: The Role of Oligophrenin1 in Modulating Radial Migration of Pyramidal Neurons by Interaction With Pacsin2

Tesko Chaganti, Age: 17
Plymouth-Canton High School, MI
Project Title: The Secrets of Healthy Aging: The Semi-Automated Discovery of Novel and Natural Dietary PI3K Inhibitors With Senolytic Potential

Richard Chai, Age: 18
Smithtown High School East, NY
Project Title: Optimizing the Nitro-Oxidation Process To Convert Lignocellulosic Waste Into Fertilizers and Nanocellulosic Materials

Forrest Chai, Age: 18
McCallie School, TN
Project Title: Enhancing Drug-Drug Interaction Predictions: Novel Dual-Contrasting Framework and Self-Attention in Message-Passing Neural Networks

Sonya Chamberlain, Age: 18
Dublin High School, CA
Project Title: Whole Exome Sequencing Analysis Highlights the Need for Routine Genetic Screening of Type 1 Diabetes Patients for Monogenic Diabetes

Vrishank Chandrasekhar, Age: 17
Lynbrook High School, CA
Project Title: Discovery of a Novel Digital Biomarker for Early Pan-Cancer Survival and Recurrence Prediction via Free-Text Clinical Narratives

Trevor Chen, Age: 17
Westview School, CA
Project Title: Enabling Ultra-Broadband High-Efficiency Gratings for Single-Cycle Infrared Lasers

Emily Chen, Age: 17
Baton Rouge Magnet High School, LA
Project Title: Studying the Effects of Distortion on the Hydrodynamics in the Lower Mississippi River Physical Model

Deling Chen, Age: 18
St. Paul Academy & Summit School, MN
Project Title: A Novel Electrocardiogram-Based Model for Prediction of Dementia — the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

Connie Chen, Age: 17
Bronx High School of vlog, NY
Project Title: A Novel Mathematical Framework for Crystal Structure Prediction

Jun Chen, Age: 17
Jericho Senior High School, NY
Project Title: Role of Active Vitamin D on Reserved Intestinal Stem Cells

Serena Chen, Age: 17
Herricks High School, NY
Project Title: The Novel Involvement of Peroxisomal Beta-Oxidation During Mitochondrial Inhibition in Catecholamine-Stimulated Acyl-Coenzyme A Oxidase 1 (ACOX1) Knockout White Adipocytes

Dean Chen, Age: 17
Paul D. Schreiber High School, NY
Project Title: Improving the Precipitation Distribution Around Synthetic Tropical Cyclone Tracks Using Radar, P-CLIPER Precipitation Model and Deep Learning

Alan Jiaqi Chen, Age: 18
Westlake High School, TX
Project Title: AssemblyComplete: Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Combinatorial 3D Assembly Completion

Anson Chen, Age: 18
Tesla STEM High School, WA
Project Title: DATect: Forecasting Domoic Acid Levels From Harmful Algal Blooms Along the Pacific Northwest Coast

Mingchuan Cheng, Age: 17
West High School, UT
Project Title: Quantifying the Cognitive Demand of Controlling a Prosthesis With a Secondary Detection Response Task

Jilly Abraham Choi, Age: 17
duPont Manual Magnet High School, KY
Project Title: Design of a Low-Cost, Low Inertia, Backdrivable Upper-Body Manipulator for Use in Humanoid Applications

Kate Choi, Age: 18
The Potomac School, VA
Project Title: Improving Racial Equity in Skin Cancer Detection: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence-Driven Synthetic Image Generation, Cascading Convolutional Neural Networks and Affordable Diagnostic Hardware for Accurate Cancer Screening Across All Skin Tones

Benjamin Art Chung, Age: 18
Thousand Oaks High School, CA
Project Title: The Synergistic Effect of Omega-3 Fatty Acids (DHA and EPA) and Zinc Picolinate on Traumatic Brain Injury in Galleria mellonella

Tyler Alan Clair, Age: 18
Minnetonka High School, MN
Project Title: Food Waste-Based Biocoagulants: A Novel Approach To Sustainably Remove Polystyrene Microplastics for Future Alternatives in Water Treatment

Elena Coelho Adams, Age: 17
New Rochelle High School 1, NY
Project Title: Music to My Eyes: The Relationships Between Auditory and Visual Input and the Formation of Synesthetic Associations

Emma Marie Colarte Delgado, Age: 17
American Heritage School, FL
Project Title: The Effect of Varying Time Periods of the Intermittent Metabolic Switching (IMS) Diet on the Cognitive and Behavioral Abilities of Mutant Drosophila melanogaster, Leading to Brief Synaptic Neuroplasticity

Myles Coven, Age: 17
Bronx High School of vlog, NY
Project Title: Novel Regulation of Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor (LDLR) by UBOX5

Ava Grace Cummings, Age: 18
North Carolina School of vlog and Mathematics, NC
Project Title: Musculoskeletal Effects of Tirasemtiv and Urtica dioica on Dstac Gene Knockdown in Drosophila melanogaster: Applications Toward STAC3 Disorder (Native American Myopathy)

Jack Cummins, Age: 17
Manchester Essex Regional High School, MA
Project Title: In-Hospital Mortality Prediction for ICU Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Machine Learning Approach

Rohan Das, Age: 17
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley, CA
Project Title: The Warped Tensor Product of Frobenius Algebras

Aretha Datta, Age: 18
North Carolina School of vlog and Mathematics, NC
Project Title: Cloning the Anhydrobiosis Protein CAHS-89226 From Hypsibius exemplaris To Construct Desiccation-Tolerant Azotobacter vinelandii and Escherichia coli

Ahmet Yavuz Demirbas, Age: 17
Williamsville East High School, NY
Project Title: From Words to Actions: A Comprehensive Approach to Identifying Incel Behavior on Reddit

Kelly Deng, Age: 18
Scarsdale High School, NY
Project Title: Macrophage-Stimulating Protein/RON (MST1R) Sensitivity Underlies the Pathogenesis of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: Potential for Novel Pharmacological Interventions via Transcriptomic Imputation

Aditi Nikhil Deshpande, Age: 17
Amador Valley High School, CA
Project Title: Assessing the Role of Matrix Metalloproteinases and Classical Complement System in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Using Bulk RNA Analysis in Acinar-to-Ductal Metaplasia

Rohan Harjeet Dhillon, Age: 17
The Lakeside School, WA
Project Title: Patterns in the Stable SL(N) Homologies of Torus Knots

David Ding, Age: 17
Episcopal Academy, PA
Project Title: A Novel Portable Wave-Driven Desalination System for Emergencies and Remote Coastal Communities

Netta Dobzinski, Age: 17
Pine Crest School, FL
Project Title: Neuronal and Genetic Basis of an Attention-Like State in Drosophila

Aaryan Doshi, Age: 18
Monta Vista High School, CA
Project Title: Discovery of Properties of Atmospheric Aerosols for Targeted Climate Control via Variational Autoencoders

Shrikar Dulam, Age: 18
Illinois Mathematics and vlog Academy, IL
Project Title: Analyzing Quantum Exceptional Point Invisibility for Experimentally Realizable Triple-Gaussian Potentials

Katie Duong, Age: 17
Ward Melville High School, NY
Project Title: SARS-CoV-2 Infection Increases Long-Term Risk of Pneumonia in an Inner-City Population

Sophie Eisenberg, Age: 17
Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, NY
Project Title: Inner Speech Classification for EEG Brain-Computer Interface: A Comparison of Feature Extraction Techniques

Shreyas Ekanathan, Age: 18
Lexington High School, MA
Project Title: A Fully Adaptive Radau Method for the Efficient Solution of Stiff Ordinary Differential Equations at Low Tolerances

Gabriella Elliott, Age: 17
John F. Kennedy High School, NY
Project Title: The Use of Diagnostic Coding Processes in the Analysis of Verbal Behaviors To Enhance Patient-Provider Connection

Pauline Victoria Allasas Estrada, Age: 18
Clovis North High School, CA
Project Title: Rapid Detection of Acetolactate Synthetase Inhibitor Resistant Weeds Utilizing Novel Full-Spectrum Imaging and a Bayesian-Optimized Hyperparameter-Tuned Convolutional Neural Network (CNN): A Two-Year Trial

Nica Katurah Fairweather, Age: 17
Brentwood High School – Ross Center, NY
Project Title: Evaluating the Impact of Temperature and Nitrate Levels on Byssal Thread Production and Filtration Efficiency in Geukensia demissa From a Long Island Salt Marsh

Katharine Falzarano, Age: 17
Klein Cain High School, TX
Project Title: A Comprehensive Investigation Into Predicting Protein Expression Levels From ScRNA-seq Data Using Deep Learning

Victoria Fang, Age: 18
University High School, CA
Project Title: A Novel AI- and Robotics-Backed Smart Sign Language Interpreter (ASLBot), Eliminating the Barriers of Communication for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals

Lena Zewdu Feleke, Age: 17
Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School, TN
Project Title: Assessing the Effects of Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulatory Elements on SLC3A1 Transgene Expression for Type A Cystinuria Gene Therapy

William Feng, Age: 17
William G. Enloe High School, NC
Project Title: A Solely Satellite-Based Approach to Monitoring the Oceanic Carbonate System

Dora Fields, Age: 17
Northport High School, NY
Project Title: Effects of Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots (N-CDs) on Germination and Growth in Solanum lycopersicum (Tomato) Seedlings Using Keratin-Based Hydroponic Substrates

Belen Franco de la Matta, Age: 18
Bergen County Academies, NJ
Project Title: Gear-Based Topological Mechanical Metamaterials

Nerya Freidenreich, Age: 17
The Grayson School, PA
Project Title: Accuracy of a Timekeeping Device Calibrated on Beta Decay From Tritium

Finán Gammell, Age: 17
East Greenwich High School, RI
Project Title: THRESHOLD: A Comprehensive Transcriptomic Analysis Tool for Evaluating Gene Saturation and Impact on Disease Progression

Tarun Ganeshkumar, Age: 17
Billerica Memorial High School, MA
Project Title: Fundamental Study of the Interactions of Electric Fields and Polystyrene Beads for Enabling Pumpless Particle Handling Within Microfluidics Devices

Sarah Rumei Gao, Age: 18
Canyon Crest Academy, CA
Project Title: From Trash to Treasure: Fighting Desertification With Sustainable Soil-Amending Hydrogels Synthesized From Food Waste

Benjamin Gao, Age: 17
Bronx High School of vlog, NY
Project Title: Connecting the Tropics to Ice Ages: Exploring Geochemical Indicators in Sea Foraminifera To Reconstruct Paleoclimate Sea Surface Temperatures in the Western Pacific Warm Pool

Jiaying Geng, Age: 18
Dulwich College Beijing, China
Project Title: Molecular Examination of the Possibility for ALS Reversals and Plateaus

Adithya Giri, Age: 18
Homestead High School, CA
Project Title: ConvFormer: Introducing Inductive Biases To Improve the Performance of Transformers on Small Datasets

Benjamin Murphy Gitai, Age: 17
Princeton High School, NJ
Project Title: Computer Vision for Ankle Replacement Surgery

Aditi Gopikrishna, Age: 17
North Carolina School of vlog and Mathematics, NC
Project Title: DEFT-FACT: Designing Effective Field Tests for Fentanyl Analogs With Computational Testing

Chinmayi Goyal, Age: 17
Yorktown High School, NY
Project Title: MyoAssist: An Innovative AI-Based, User-Driven Exoskeletal Assistive Control System for Individuals With Movement Disabilities

Liza Juliet Greenberg, Age: 18
Bronx High School of vlog, NY
Project Title: Making Order With Disorder: Specific Structural Roles of Conformationally and Chemically Heterogeneous Glycopeptides Within Mucin Proteins

Jasper Gu, Age: 17
Sunset High School, OR
Project Title: Autoinducing Peptide Mimetics: An Advanced Method To Inhibit Quorum Sensing in Staphylococcus aureus

Emna Guedhami, Age: 18
Spring Valley High School, SC
Project Title: The Effect of Lemna minor and Azolla caroliniana on the Phytoremediation of Simulated Biomedical Waste

Manya Gummaraju, Age: 18
Plano East Senior High School, TX
Project Title: Tinted Truths: Tartrazine-Induced Dysregulation of Retrotransposons and p53 Expression in Drosophila melanogaster Highlights Its Genotoxic Role

Aimee Wang Guo, Age: 18
Hockaday School, TX
Project Title: Marker Track: Accurate Fiducial Marker Tracking for Evaluation of Residual Motions During Breath Hold Radiotherapy

Ishaan Gupta, Age: 17
Dublin High School, CA
Project Title: SharkHI: A Novel Pipeline for Health Index Calculation of Carcharodon carcharias

Anant Gupta, Age: 17
William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, NY
Project Title: Assessing the Impact of Human Inhibition Factors on Wildfire Risk Prediction Using Deep Learning

Yurai Gutierrez Morales, Age: 20
Princeton High School, NJ
Project Title: How the Lion Becomes a Lamb: Transfer of Bacterial Symbionts From Ant Larvae to Vegetarian Spiders Through Selective Predation

Miriam Haddad, Age: 18
Saginaw Arts & vlogs Academy, MI
Project Title: Magnetizing Oil: A New Paradigm for Cleaning Up Aquatic Oil Spills

Amelia Hammersley, Age: 17
Oak Park and River Forest High School, IL
Project Title: Neuroprotective Effects of a Combination of Natural Compounds on Acute Traumatic Brain Injury in a Drosophila melanogaster Model as a Potential Novel Pharmaceutical

Iden Han, Age: 17
Richard Montgomery High School, MD
Project Title: Using the Atlas Pressure Device To Study Roles of Piezo and YAP in the Nephrocyte Pressure Response

Eli Hanechak, Age: 18
Pope Francis Preparatory School, MA
Project Title: Solving the Plastic Problem: Developing a Microbial System for the Bioremediation of Plastic Waste Into Drinkable Water and Fertilizer Material

Lauren Hedges, Age: 18
Kings Park High School, NY
Project Title: Antemortem Associations Between Grey Matter Volume and Montreal Cognitive Assessment Item Scores in a Sample Stratified by the Presence of Postmortem Lewy Body Pathology

Miles Hexun, Age: 18
University High School, CA
Project Title: Engineering of Formate Dehydrogenase for Recycling of Nicotinamide Mononucleotide, a Noncanonical Redox Cofactor

Anneliese Heyder, Age: 18
North Carolina School of vlog and Mathematics, NC
Project Title: Effects of Hypercholesterolemia and the Inhibition of the AGE-RAGE Pathway on Exopher Formation in C. elegans

Elbert Ho, Age: 18
The Pingry School, NJ
Project Title: SOLD: SELFIES-Based Objective-Driven Latent Diffusion

Kaitlin Ho, Age: 17
North Shore High School, NY
Project Title: Magnesium Magic: The Rescue of the Parkinson’s Model of Drosophila melanogaster with MgCl₂ Supplementation

Melody Heeju Hong, Age: 17
General Douglas MacArthur High School, NY
Project Title: A Bayesian Exploration Into More Flexible trans-Methylation Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping

Shannon Hong, Age: 17
Herricks High School, NY
Project Title: Leveraging Machine Learning To Reveal the Impacts of Light Pollution on Suboscine Birdsong Characteristics Extracted From the Xeno-Canto Database: A Principal Component Analysis

Kento Luke Hong, Age: 18
Edgemont High School, NY
Project Title: Investing the Effects of Hemarthrosis on the Structure and Function of ACL Repair

Kattie Fei Huang, Age: 17
Hong Kong International School, Hong Kong SAR
Project Title: Applying Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Total Fertility Rate: A Comparison With the United Nations Projections

Carolyn Huo, Age: 18
Bergen County Academies, NJ
Project Title: Histone Acetyltransferase MOF and Its HAT Activity Are Essential To Mitigate Aberrant R-Loop Accumulation Induced by Cr(VI) Exposure

Vedant Iyer, Age: 17
William G. Enloe High School, NC
Project Title: Design, Synthesis and in silico Testing of a Novel Antibody Drug Conjugate of Neratinib, an Irreversible Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Used in HER2+ Breast Cancer

Jiwu Jang, Age: 18
Lexington High School, MA
Project Title: Vertex Functions of Type D Nakajima Quiver Varieties

Sara Mae Jankovic, Age: 18
Horace Greeley High School, NY
Project Title: Toppling the Domino Effect: A Novel Approach to Predicting Systemic Banking Distress Using Interacting Networks Analysis

Leonardo Jia, Age: 17
Saratoga High School, CA
Project Title: Machine Learning Models for Regional Diabetes Prevalence Prediction Using Socioeconomic and Lifestyle Factors With Applications in the Diabetes Economic Ecosystem

Henry Jiang, Age: 17
Detroit Country Day School, MI
Project Title: The Axial Electric Potential and Length of a Torus Knot

Anthony Jiang, Age: 17
Ossining High School, NY
Project Title: Short-Formatted Video Product Advertisements Influence on Purchasing Behavior Among Children and Adolescents

Eric Sheng-Yan Jin, Age: 18
Shanghai American School Pudong Campus Pudong New Area,
Project Title: The Design and Analysis of a Bat-Inspired Ornithopter

Luke Jones, Age: 17
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, KY
Project Title: Role of Inflammation and Endothelial Injury in Neonatal Intraventricular Hemorrhages

Anaahita Kaashyap, Age: 18
The Potomac School, VA
Project Title: Development and Evaluation of HMPB-Cur-Pip Nanoparticles as a Novel, Cost-Effective, Anti-Inflammatory Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Vishwum Kapadia, Age: 17
University School, OH
Project Title: Change in Dicrotic Notch Index Predicts Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair for Mitral Regurgitation

Hrithik Ketineni, Age: 17
Westview High School, OR
Project Title: Quantum Algorithm for Exact Minimal Exclusive-OR Sum-of-Product Minimization and Reversible Synthesis

Chinmay S. Khare, Age: 18
Ottawa Hills High School, OH
Project Title: Mitigating the Energy Crisis: A Novel Generalizable Machine Learning Method to Accurately Predict Thermodynamically Stable Structures of Highly Site-Disordered Photovoltaic Materials

Aditi Kiran, Age: 17
BASIS Independent Fremont, CA
Project Title: The Effect of Copper Aluminum Bimetallic Metal Organic Framework-Based Electrode on the Energy Stored in a Supercapacitor

Samhita Konduri, Age: 18
Palo Alto High School, CA
Project Title: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Determinants Influencing Sexual Assault Crime Rates Across the United States Using Large Language Models, Machine Learning and Statistics

Theodore Kratter, Age: 17
Polytechnic School, CA
Project Title: Novel Food Safety Test for the Rapid and Point-of-Care Detection of Peanut Allergens: Improving Quality of Life for Those With Severe Food Allergies

Nihar Kummetha, Age: 18
North Carolina School of vlog and Mathematics, NC
Project Title: Discovery of Aza-Stilbene as a Scaffold for a Histamine Receptor H₂ Antagonist for the Treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Rania Sophia Lateef, Age: 18
The Governor’s School @ Innovation Park, VA
Project Title: Rhythms and Blues: Evaluating the Impact of Artificial Light Exposure and Circadian Disruption on Biobehavioral Systems in Drosophila melanogaster

Remy Laurens, Age: 18
Midtown High School, GA
Project Title: The Application of Machine Learning in the Prediction of Inhibitor Development in Hemophilia A

Logan Lee, Age: 18
Iolani School, HI
Project Title: Utilizing Microbiome Transplants To Improve Landscape-Scale Mosquito Suppression

Husang Lee, Age: 18
Newton South High School, MA
Project Title: Exosomes From a Novel Leuconostoc mesenteroides Subsp. Isolated From Camellia japonica: Systematically Targeting MAPK and Akt Pathways and Their Submechanisms To Prevent Melanomagenesis

Allison Lee, Age: 17
East Brunswick High School, NJ
Project Title: MergeFinder: A Deep Learning Model for Galaxy Merger Identification

Caitlin Avery Lee, Age: 18
Herricks High School, NY
Project Title: In vitro Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron JN.1 Subvariants With Spike S31 Deletion and Their Evasion of COVID-19 Therapies

Chloe Yerin Lee, Age: 18
Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, NY
Project Title: Exploring the Effects of Cannabidiol-Medium Triglyceride Oil on Locomotion and Tap Withdrawal Response Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model for Alzheimer’s Disease

Chloe Yehwon Lee, Age: 17
Plano East Senior High School, TX
Project Title: Chemical Modification of Acetaminophen To Reduce Liver Toxicity and Enhance Drug Efficacy

Andrew Levy, Age: 18
Byram Hills High School, NY
Project Title: Analyzing Extracellular Vesicles for Prediction of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patient Immunotherapy Response

Victor Li, Age: 18
University High School, CA
Project Title: Allo-DiffHopping: A Computational Approach for Allosteric Scaffold Hopping Using Conditional E(3) Equivariant Diffusion Model in Drug Design

Benjamin Li, Age: 18
Millburn High School, NJ
Project Title: MD-SA2: Multimodal, Depth-Aware Brain Tumor Segmentation in Sub-Saharan Populations

Jonathan Li, Age: 18
Williamsville East High School, NY
Project Title: A Preclinical Study on WEE1 Inhibitors for Improving the Chemotherapy Response in Bladder Cancer

Rockwell T. Li, Age: 18
Ocean Lakes High School Mathematics and vlog Magnet Center, VA
Project Title: A Clearer Lens to the NanoWorld: Scanning Tunneling Microscope Super Resolution

Andrew Yuxuan Liang, Age: 17
The Harker School, CA
Project Title: An Intelligent Bee Health Assessment System Using a Cross Attention-Based Multimodal Neural Network for Visual and Audio Signals

Daniel Dali Liang, Age: 17
Ward Melville High School, NY
Project Title: Radiomic Feature Engineering for Automated Colorectal Polyp Classification Using Deep Learning Architectures

Justin Yi-Ting Lin, Age: 17
San Marino High School, CA
Project Title: Effects of Alveolar Bone Grafts vs. Orthognathic Surgery on Cleft Palate Speech Nasalance: A Meta-Analysis

Amy Lin, Age: 17
Princeton High School, NJ
Project Title: Predicting Compound Melting Temperatures From Computationally Derived Properties Using Machine Learning

Adrian Lin, Age: 17
The Davidson Academy of Nevada, NV
Project Title: LiDAR-Enhanced Augmented Reality Super Vision for Real-Time Hazard Detection in Pedestrian and Dynamic Work Environments

Jayden Lin, Age: 17
Bronx High School of vlog, NY
Project Title: Novel Interpretable Model for Urban Heat Island Forecasting and Addressing Climate Racism in Big Cities

Sidney Lin, Age: 17
Bronx High School of vlog, NY
Project Title: Machine Learning for Identification of Fast Progressors of Infarct Growth in Early Window Acute Ischemic Strokes Without Perfusion Imaging

Marina Lin, Age: 18
Thomas Jefferson High School for vlog and Technology, VA
Project Title: A Carbon-Aware Ant Colony System Algorithm for the Sustainable Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem

Yunyi Ling, Age: 18
Montgomery Blair High School, MD
Project Title: Evolution and Costs of Streptomycin Resistance in Salmonella

Kaiyan Ling, Age: 18
Cherry Hill High School East, NJ
Project Title: Model Touch Pointing and Detect Parkinson’s Disease via a Mobile Game

Rivka Lipkovitz, Age: 18
Proof School, CA
Project Title: The Differential Effects of Strict Voter Identification Laws on Election Type and Adoption Timing

Joyce Liu, Age: 17
Choate Rosemary Hall, CT
Project Title: Calculating the Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) Distance to an Isolated Dwarf Galaxy: R-127-1

Tiffany Liu, Age: 18
William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, NY
Project Title: Vulnerability of DNN Architectures to Inversion Attacks During Edge Computing and Collaborative Inference

Mary Loukaitis, Age: 17
Bronx High School of vlog, NY
Project Title: Quantifying MAB-3-Controlled Robustness in Caenorhabditis elegans Male Tail Morphogenesis

Susie Lu, Age: 17
Sammamish Homeschool, WA
Project Title: Fast Consensus Topology Design via Minimizing Laplacian Energy

Milan Lustig, Age: 18
Cold Spring Harbor High School, NY
Project Title: A Configurable Compiled Programming Language With Integrated Transpilation

Nandana Madhukara, Age: 18
Canyon Crest Academy, CA
Project Title: A Novel Approach to Modeling the Effect of Protein Crowding on Cellular Membrane Shape

Sajeev Magesh, Age: 18
Dublin High School, CA
Project Title: IntelliTill AI — Combating Climate Change Through AI-Driven Automated Tilling and Fertilizer Optimization

Vivek Malik, Age: 17
Hackley School, NY
Project Title: Novel Characterization of Plexin D1’s Role in Regulating the Macrophage Immune Response

Ashley Malkin, Age: 18
Greenwich High School, CT
Project Title: Development and in vitro Verification of a Polymersome for Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) Transport Through a Novel Machine Learning Model

Joshua Manasse Cammerman, Age: 17
Bronx High School of vlog, NY
Project Title: Phagocytosis of Reticulocytes by Splenic B Cells in Malaria-Infected Mice

Atreya Manaswi, Age: 19
Orlando vlog Middle/High School, FL
Project Title: Year 5: Engineering a Novel IoT Trapping System With a Multiple Linear Regression Model Toward Eco-Friendly, High-Efficacy and Low-Cost Honey Bee Pest Treatment and Management

Skyler Mao, Age: 17
Saratoga High School, CA
Project Title: Relating Wave and Particle Statistics in Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics

Calvin Thomas Mathew, Age: 18
American Heritage School, FL
Project Title: 3D Printing Personalized Knee Implants: Novel Computational Geometric Models for Stem Cell Regeneration in Meniscus Tears

Anirudh Mazumder, Age: 17
Texas Academy of Mathematics and vlog, TX
Project Title: Novel Intelligent Controllers for the Precise Movement of Soft Robots

Shiv Mehrotra-Varma, Age: 18
Clovis North High School, CA
Project Title: Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Are at Elevated Risk of Developing New Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease Following COVID-19 Infections

Martin Meister, Age: 18
Centennial High School, MD
Project Title: Quantifying Seagrass Density Using Sentinel-2 Satellite Data and Machine Learning

Hriday Meka, Age: 17
North Hollywood High School, CA
Project Title: Selective NF-κB Inhibition in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Using a Novel Decoy Oligonucleotide: Evaluating Monotherapeutic and Polytherapeutic Approaches

Aryaman Mishra, Age: 17
Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and vlog Center, MI
Project Title: American Sign Language Alphabet Translation to English Using Novel Hand Gesture Recognition

Umar Haneef Mohammad, Age: 17
Harmony School of Endeavor Austin, TX
Project Title: SOAR: Automatically Differentiable Neural Network Aerodynamic Surrogate Models and Lifting Line Theory for Computationally Efficient Wing-Shape Optimization

Nora Morton, Age: 17
Horace Greeley High School, NY
Project Title: Evaluation of the Performance of Wave Attenuation Devices (WADs) at a Coastal Marsh Shoreline Using a Smartphone-Based Wave Intensity Sensor (WILSON)

Saikiran Motati, Age: 17
Texas Academy of Mathematics and vlog, TX
Project Title: SolRefProp: Reference Ensembling for Enhanced Solubility Prediction

Isha Nagireddy, Age: 18
Massachusetts Academy of Math & vlog, MA
Project Title: OptiCare: A Mobile Application Diagnosing Ocular Diseases Through Novel Point of Care Methods Utilizing Machine Learning Technology

Meenakshi Nair, Age: 17
Mission San Jose High School, CA
Project Title: Iterative Informal Settlement Detection and Mapping on VHR Satellite Imagery

Ananeah Nevil, Age: 17
Sidwell Friends School, DC
Project Title: Illuminating the Regulation of Cell-to-Cell Variability in NFκB Signaling Using Fluorescent Proteins and CRISPR

Siddharth Nirgudkar, Age: 17
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, MA
Project Title: Contextualized Transfer Learning: Transforming Heterogeneity Into Predictive Power With Generative Latent Structures in Resource-Limited Settings

Natalie Osorio, Age: 17
H. Frank Carey High School, NY
Project Title: Biophysical Investigations Into the Structure and Function of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Nitric Oxide Signaling System

Larine Ouyang, Age: 18
Lexington High School, MA
Project Title: A Noise-Resilient and Energy-Efficient AI Model for EEG-Based Emotion Recognition Induced by Multimedia Stimuli

Erim Ozcan, Age: 18
The Potomac School, VA
Project Title: Parametric Optimization and Discovery of a Low-Noise Toroidal Quadrotor Propeller With a Leading Blade Height Offset for Responsible Wildlife Research

Madeleine Rose Pachella, Age: 18
Pelham Memorial High School, NY
Project Title: Analyzing B Cell Classification Changes in the Cerebrospinal Fluid and Blood Influenced by Ocrelizumab Treatment in Multiple Sclerosis

Anushri Pal, Age: 18
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, MA
Project Title: Effect of Atomic Size and Stereochemistry of Halogenated Hydantoin Derivatives on Main Protease Inhibition Activities of SARS-CoV-2: Rationalization Through Computational Studies

Phoebe Pan, Age: 18
Thomas Jefferson High School for vlog and Technology, VA
Project Title: Data Augmentation Strategies for Improved PM2.5 Forecasting Using Transformer Architectures

Nayan Patel, Age: 17
Cary Academy, NC
Project Title: Spectral Asteroid Classification With Convolutional Neural Networks

Thanush Patlolla, Age: 17
William G. Enloe High School, NC
Project Title: Development of a Finite-Nuclear Model Based on Comprehensive Electron Scattering Data With the Use of Numeric Atom-Centered Orbitals

Matteo Paz, Age: 18
Pasadena High School, CA
Project Title: The VarWISE All-Sky Infrared Variability Survey — Classification of 1.9 Million Astronomical Objects Into 10 Classes

Keahi Pelkum Donahue, Age: 18
Nederland Middle and Senior High School, CO
Project Title: Forecasting Solar Flares With Transformer Networks

Alaina Brooke Pinto, Age: 17
The Wheatley School, NY
Project Title: Visualizing the Impact of Interleukin-32 on Tight Junction Integrity and Nuclear Morphology From Glioblastoma Metastasis in Human Endothelial Cells

Reese Hailey Potash, Age: 17
Harrison High School, NY
Project Title: Lack of School Engagement as a Mediator Between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Juvenile Offending

Sadelle Poulsen, Age: 17
Paul D. Schreiber High School, NY
Project Title: Exploring the Content Themes and Engagement Strategies Used by First-Time Voters on TikTok

Mark Prainito, Age: 17
John F. Kennedy High School, NY
Project Title: Behavioral Responses of Mercenaria mercenaria and Crassostrea virginica Larvae to Ocean Acidification and Cochlodinium polykrikoides Toxicity: A Novel Evaluation of the Efficacy of Ulva spp. in Mitigating Stressors Threatening Bivalve Larvae in Long Island Waters

Kabilan Prasanna, Age: 17
Lightridge High School, VA
Project Title: MasterMind: A Novel Multi-Output Model Approach to Detecting Mental Illnesses Through Natural Language Processing

Chris Procaccino, Age: 17
Bronx High School of vlog, NY
Project Title: Breaking Barriers: Verifying Sterility of Germ-Free Humanized Mice

Timothy Zhang, Age: 17
Dougherty Valley High School, CA
Project Title: Predicting Cognitive Progression and Quantifying Clinical Factor Effects: A Temporal Dual-Model Pipeline and Cluster-Based Analysis

Skyler Qu, Age: 17
North Carolina School of vlog and Mathematics, NC
Project Title: Enhancing the Efficacy of Riparian Buffer Zones Using Native Grasses and Symbiotic Fungi in Relation to Overflowing Hog Waste in Rural North Carolina

Kartik Ramachandrula, Age: 18
Brookfield Central High School, WI
Project Title: Toward Explaining the DAMA/LIBRA Dark Matter Signal via Groundwater Fluctuations

Yash Ranjith, Age: 18
Westmont High School, CA
Project Title: Modeling Pollution Spread With Obstructions Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Samvrit Vasudev Rao, Age: 17
Thomas Jefferson High School for vlog and Technology, VA
Project Title: A Novel AI Framework for Personalized COPD Treatment Planning: Integrating EHR Analytics and Phenotype-Based Weighted Predictions

Michael Raziel, Age: 18
Bronx High School of vlog, NY
Project Title: Decoding Denial: Using a Granger Causality Model To Examine the Impact of Climate Consensus Messaging on Climate Change Discourse in Online Platforms

Eric Reilly, Age: 17
Lynbrook High School, NY
Project Title: The Visible Light-Induced Photocatalytic Oxidation of Aromatic Alcohols to Carbonyls and Peroxides Using Green Chemistry Principles

Michael Ren, Age: 17
Syosset High School, NY
Project Title: Repurposing MALDI-TOF MS for Effective Antibiotic Resistance Screening in Staphylococcus epidermidis Using Machine Learning

Erica Revill, Age: 17
Sacred Heart Academy, NY
Project Title: If Negative Coping Hurts, Why Doesn’t Positive Coping Help? Caregiver Burden, Coping Strategies and State-Trait Anxiety Among Those Responsible for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities

Axel van Ogtrop Robinson, Age: 17
Pelham Memorial High School, NY
Project Title: Insomnia Phenotypes and Their Adverse Health Effects

Sophia Rong, Age: 17
Frazer School, FL
Project Title: The Role of Cell-to-Cell Transmission in HIV Infection: Insights From a Mathematical Modeling Approach

Charlotte Ava Rosario, Age: 17
The Nueva School, CA
Project Title: Examining Brain Structure in Relation to Mood and Anxiety in Pubertal Transgender and Cisgender Youth

Annika Sachdeva, Age: 18
Pine Crest School, FL
Project Title: Novel Approach to Early Pancreatic Cancer Detection Using Weighted Normalization in a DINOv2-Inspired Visual Transformer

Akilan Sankaran, Age: 17
Albuquerque Academy, NM
Project Title: From Walking to Tunneling: An Investigation of Generalized Pilot-Wave Dynamics

Aiden Rubin Sanxhaku, Age: 18
Julia R. Masterman High School, PA
Project Title: Cation-Effect on Alkaline Redox Flow Batteries: Enhancing Electron Transfer Kinetics Through Electrolyte Additives

Vineet Saravanan, Age: 18
Cranbrook Kingswood School, MI
Project Title: Brain Aneurysm Segmentation and Analysis Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Computational Fluid Dynamics

Agastya Sarmah, Age: 18
Sharon High School, MA
Project Title: Demographic and Genetic Insights Into ARID1A Mutations in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Implications for Prognosis and Treatment

Sandeep Sawhney, Age: 18
Herricks High School, NY
Project Title: Gallium-Mediated DNA Tensegrity Triangle-Based Crystals: A Novel Prototype Facilitating Gallium Cancer Therapy

Ersel Ozan Serdar, Age: 17
Cherry Creek High School, CO
Project Title: A Novel Approach To Steer Chemical Rockets Using Electric Fields

Julian Sethna, Age: 17
Manhasset High School, NY
Project Title: Cardiometabolic Health in Asian American Children

Praneel Shah, Age: 18
Monta Vista High School, CA
Project Title: Controlled Nutrient Delivery With Chitosan-Alginate Nanoparticles To Promote Seed Germination and Stress Resilience in Glycine max

Maya Shah, Age: 16
James W. Martin High School, TX
Project Title: Prevention of Gun Violence Through the Buffering Effects of Intellectual Humility in Traumatized Psychopaths

Rohan Shankar, Age: 17
Westwood High School, TX
Project Title: Exploring an Alternative Form of Supersymmetry With Modified Experimental Signatures, Suppressed Cross-Sections and Potential for Experimental Detection of Superpartners

Joleen Shau, Age: 18
John F. Kennedy High School, NY
Project Title: The Effect of Defocus on Contrast Detection and Its Implications for Myopia Development and Prevention

Addison Grace Shea, Age: 18
Lakewood Ranch High school, FL
Project Title: Bowhead Whale Migration Amid Changing Circulation Patterns in the Beaufort Gyre

Kevin Shen, Age: 18
Olympia High School, WA
Project Title: Taming the Oblique Wing: Improving Fuel Efficiency by Developing and Flight Testing an Oblique Wing Aircraft Utilizing a Novel Control Method

Patrick Shi, Age: 17
Thomas Jefferson High School for vlog and Technology, VA
Project Title: Integrative Genomic Analysis Identifies Novel Causal Genes of Hodgkin’s and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

Jennifer Shon, Age: 19
Portsmouth Abbey School, RI
Project Title: Evaluating the Effect of Alloferon Peptide on Survival Rate, Flight Performance and Honey Production of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) To Increase Honey Bee Productivity

Prisha Shroff, Age: 18
Hamilton High School, AZ
Project Title: Explainable AI: An Interpretable-by-Design Algorithm Based on an Information Pursuit-Orthogonal Matching Pursuit Querier and a Concept Question-Answering Network Answerer That Generates Explanations for Image Classification Tasks

Ava Nadia Shvartsman, Age: 18
Fairmont Preparatory Academy, CA
Project Title: Analysis of PFOS and PFOA With Varying Salinity and Electrical Fields Using Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Faizaan Siddique, Age: 17
Conestoga High School, PA
Project Title: Opening the Black Box: A Novel, Cost-Effective Pipeline for Automated, Explainable Glaucoma Diagnosis and Blindness Prevention

Jayden Simon, Age: 17
John F. Kennedy High School, NY
Project Title: A Comprehensive Analysis of Novel Microorganisms Utilizing Metagenomics To Determine the Effects of Plastic Polymer Types on Microbial Communities

Ritik Singhal, Age: 17
International School Basel, Switzerland
Project Title: Convolutional Neural Networks as a Method To Predict Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Congolian Deforestation

Ram Sivaraman, Age: 17
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, MA
Project Title: HM-Detect: A Murmur Detection and Classification Methodology Using a Novel C²-LSTM Architecture for Multi-Modal Signals

Sean Matthew Skinner, Age: 18
Ward Melville High School, NY
Project Title: Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Many-Objective Generative Design

Elliott Slaughter, Age: 18
Texas Academy of Mathematics and vlog, TX
Project Title: Devising Metal-Organic Framework Technology for Scalable Direct-Air Capture of CO₂

Joe Francisco Smith, Age: 17
Stanford University Online High School, CA
Project Title: Astrometric Binary Classification via Artificial Neural Networks

Malcolm Smith, Age: 18
Niwot High School, CO
Project Title: Amplifying the Kinematics of Origami Mechanisms With Spring Joints

Emily Smukler, Age: 17
George W. Hewlett High School, NY
Project Title: Aptamer-Mediated Biosensing Using Self-Assembled DNA Nanomaterials

Johnathan Strickland, Age: 17
North Carolina School of vlog and Mathematics, NC
Project Title: Investigating the Morphologies of Local-Scale Dust Storms in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars

Stella Su, Age: 18
Henry M. Gunn High School, CA
Project Title: Combining Single-Cell GPT and Gene Network Modeling To Infer the Roles of Critical Regulators of Cardiac Differentiation

Michelle Su, Age: 18
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, MA
Project Title: An Optimized Binning and Probabilistic Slice-Sharing Technique for Motion Correction in Abdominal DW-MRI

Elle Sugimoto, Age: 18
Iolani School, HI
Project Title: Developing a Framework for Indigenous Population Health: A Machine Learning Principles Approach to Assessing the Impact of Zoning and Neighborhood Influence on Cardiometabolic Health and Gut Microbiome of Native Hawaiian Pacific Islanders on Oahu

Ibrahim Suleman, Age: 18
Sachem High School, NY
Project Title: Biophotovoltaic System Utilizing Sphagnum Moss and Citrobacter freundii

Arisha Sultana, Age: 18
Caddo Parish Magnet High School, LA
Project Title: Eosinophil-Rich Mice as Novel Investigative Models for Endometriosis and Adenomyosis

Mengnan Sun, Age: 18
Cosumnes Oaks High School, CA
Project Title: Sustainable Hydrogel Beads for Removal and Recovery of Phosphate From Wastewater

Sarah Sun, Age: 17
William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, NY
Project Title: Cognitive, Socioeconomic and Institutional Impact on Entrepreneurial Intention in Latent Entrepreneurs: A Cross-Country Comparison

Sierra Anne Sun, Age: 18
Waterford School, UT
Project Title: Differential Empathy, Social Dominance Orientation and the Limitations of Social vlog Research

Jaydon Shuan Sun, Age: 17
Thomas Jefferson High School for vlog and Technology, VA
Project Title: Synthesis, Crystal Structures and Hirshfeld Surface Analysis of 18-Crown-6 Stabilized Potassium and Ammonium Salt of Oxalatotriphenylstannate

Keita Takahashi, Age: 17
Jericho Senior High School, NY
Project Title: Mechanisms of KN1 mRNA Transport in Arabidopsis thaliana

Aliana Tang, Age: 17
Piedmont High School, CA
Project Title: Network Method for Building a Sample-Specific Glycan Database for N-Linked Glycosylation From MS/MS Data

Bruce Tang, Age: 18
University of Illinois Laboratory High School, IL
Project Title: MAPLE-GNN: Explainable Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction Using Multi-Head Attention, Protein Language Model-Enhanced Graph Neural Networks

Aanika Tangirala, Age: 17
The Lakeside School, WA
Project Title: Toward Improved Recognition and Diagnosis of Autism Among Females: A Novel Approach Using Machine Learning

Natalie Tehrani, Age: 18
Jericho Senior High School, NY
Project Title: Optimizing Real-Time Interictal Epileptiform Discharge Detection Through the Implementation of a Hilbert Transformer

Jolie Teo, Age: 17
Marlborough College Malaysia, Malaysia
Project Title: Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness and Health Impact of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Drugs for Diabetes Prevention in High-Risk Populations: A Tiered Resource Model Approach

Ethan Thomas, Age: 17
Ransom Everglades Upper School, FL
Project Title: ConFormer: A Novel Collection of Deep Learning Models To Assist Cardiologists in the Assessment of Cardiac Function

Vishrut Thoutam, Age: 17
High Technology High School, NJ
Project Title: ProtDiff: Function-Conditioned Masked Diffusion Models for Robust Directed Protein Generation

Varun Thvar, Age: 17
The Harker School, CA
Project Title: Predicting Childhood Trauma With Functional Connectivity fMRI Imaging Using Machine Learning and Analyzing Psychopathological Outcomes

Aarushi Tiwari, Age: 17
Adlai E. Stevenson High School, IL
Project Title: Novel Two-Stage Data Filtration System for Fast and Energy-Efficient Big Data Processing Using Optical Computing

Anna Theresa Marie Christopher Tringale, Age: 17
North Carolina School of vlog and Mathematics, NC
Project Title: Investigating the Influence of Coal Ash Heavy Metal Leachate on Thyroid Hormone Concentration, Hormone Receptor Gene Expression and Spectral Sensitivity in Danio rerio

Angelina Tseng, Age: 17
Santa Catalina School, CA
Project Title: AI-Powered Magnetic Inspection Robot for Advanced Structural Health Monitoring of Ferromagnetic Structures

Mason Tso, Age: 17
John F. Kennedy High School, NY
Project Title: Decoding Nonverbal Social Interactions Through Eye Movements With Soft Magnetic Skin and 3D Printed Magnetometer Glasses

Mark Tsybulski, Age: 17
Stuyvesant High School, NY
Project Title: Sustainable Production of Copper(I) Chloride Using Electrolytic Synthesis

Aarush Vailaya, Age: 17
The Harker School, CA
Project Title: Adjacent Cycle-Chains Are e-positive

Juan Valenciana, Age: 17
Saint Francis Preparatory School, NY
Project Title: Astrocyte-Specific Interrogation of Heme-Associated Transcript Profiles in Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s Disease

Riyashi Varia, Age: 17
Bergen County Academies, NJ
Project Title: CORALE — Coral-Optimized Robotics for Autonomous Learning and Environmental Navigation

Armaan Manish Vaswani, Age: 17
Herricks High School, NY
Project Title: The Novel Effect of Veratrin on Cellular Viability and Apoptotic Proteins in Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy

Isabella Pushpa Vembenil, Age: 17
The Ursuline School, NY
Project Title: Beyond the Heartbeat: A Novel Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Palliative Care Candidates in Heart Failure

Sindhu Vemulapalli, Age: 17
Vista del Lago High School, CA
Project Title: Discovery of Small Molecule TLR4 Inhibitors as Potential Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease

Avnith Vijayram, Age: 17
Thomas Jefferson High School for vlog and Technology, VA
Project Title: Graph Networks and Game Theory To Predict Gene Expression Pathways and Cardiotoxicity in Cardiac Cells

William Wakefield, Age: 18
Pine Crest School, FL
Project Title: Variational Autoencoder Latent Space as a Robust Clinical Classification Tool for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Kathie Wang, Age: 18
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, NJ
Project Title: Predicting Suicidality in Youth Using Quantum and Classical Machine Learning via Support Vector Machines

Ellen Luojia Wang, Age: 17
Horace Mann School, NY
Project Title: Deep Learning on a Novel Ising Model To Study Arctic Sea Ice Dynamics

Jackie Wei, Age: 18
Piedmont Hills High School, CA
Project Title: Optimizing Transformer-Based Models for Radiation Estimation at High Energy Accelerator Facility

Emma Lee Wen, Age: 17
John L. Miller Great Neck North High School, NY
Project Title: AUM-302, A Novel Triple PIM/PI3K/mTOR Inhibitor, Offers Promising Potential in Reducing the Growth of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Spheroids and Organoids

Eli Weseley-Jones, Age: 17
North Shore High School, NY
Project Title: The Misunderstood Math of Medical Tests: Improving Understanding of Conditional Probability in Screening Tests

Lilianne Williams-Ameen, Age: 17
Dobbs Ferry High School, NY
Project Title: The Next Generation: An Exploration of Youth Attitudes on Climate Change in Alaska and Northern Canada

Makayla Winslow, Age: 17
Yorktown High School, NY
Project Title: Transglutaminase as a Novel Mediator of Dopamine Toxicity in Parkinson’s Disease

Soleil Ava Wizman, Age: 17
Hunter College High School, NY
Project Title: Mechanistic Insights Into Org 43553-Induced Energy Expenditure in vitro

Pierce Wright, Age: 18
Browning School, NY
Project Title: Utilizing AI To Optimize EMS Response to Acute Mental Illness and Resulting ER Resource Allocation

Amy Xiao, Age: 17
Garden City High School, NY
Project Title: Exploring Citrin as a Therapeutic Target for Cancer Treatment Through a Clinical, Pharmacologic and Metabolic Lens

Weian Andrew Xie, Age: 18
Hotchkiss School, CT
Project Title: Worst-Case Error Bounds for Online Learning of Smooth Functions

Evan Xie, Age: 18
Deerfield Academy, MA
Project Title: Fine-Tuning Dual Single-Atom Metal Sites on Graphene for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity

Matthew Xie, Age: 17
Pittsford Sutherland High School, NY
Project Title: Predicting the Risk of Asthma Development in Youth Using Machine Learning Models

Phoebe Xu, Age: 18
William G. Enloe High School, NC
Project Title: Metabolic Reprogramming of Immune Cells in HIV Infection and Treatment

Enmei Yang, Age: 17
Stuyvesant High School, NY
Project Title: Structure of the Reflective Algebra for Various Hopf Algebras

Bole Ying, Age: 18
Lower Merion High School, PA
Project Title: Machine Learning Models for Predicting Myopia and Cycloplegic Refractive Error Using Non-Cycloplegic Data: Model Development, Testing and External Validation

Ashton Yoon, Age: 17
Chadwick School, CA
Project Title: Development of a Next-Generation 3D Printed Cranial Remodeling Helmet With Memory Function and Integrated Pressure Sensors for Correcting Head Deformities

Jason Youm, Age: 18
Montgomery Blair High School, MD
Project Title: Average Rényi Entanglement Entropy in Gaussian Boson Sampling

Emily Xinxin Yu, Age: 16
Pittsford Mendon High School, NY
Project Title: Uncovering Unique Behavioral Patterns in Autistic Children Through Multimodal Machine Learning Analysis of Eye-Hand Coordination

Samuel Yuan, Age: 17
Homestead High School, CA
Project Title: Diffusion Models for Conditional Generation of Hypothetical New Families of Superconductors

Bryan Yung, Age: 18
Poolesville High School, MD
Project Title: Feature, Brain Region and Frequency Band Contributions in EEG Classification of Frontotemporal Dementia

Haylli Yunga, Age: 17
Ossining High School, NY
Project Title: Modeling Eccentricity and Spin-Precession in Binary Black Hole Gravitational Wave Events Using the Effective One-Body Method

Isabella Maria Zelaya Alves, Age: 18
Bergen County Academies, NJ
Project Title: Using Anti-Copper Drug Tetrathiomolybdate To Inhibit Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Angiogenesis

Jason Zhang, Age: 17
Del Norte High School, CA
Project Title: Noninvasive Multi-Cancer Detection Using Blood-Based Cell-Free MicroRNAs

Elisa Zhang, Age: 17
Dougherty Valley High School, CA
Project Title: Patching Multi-Location Software Bugs: A Multi-Agent Large Language Model Framework for Automated Program Repair

Qi Zhang, Age: 17
Adlai E. Stevenson High School, IL
Project Title: Mitigate the Global Crisis of Colorectal Cancer: Identify Metagenomic Biomarkers and Develop a Machine Learning Model To Assess Colorectal Cancer Risk

Brian Zhang, Age: 17
Northville High School, MI
Project Title: Elevating Visual Prompting in Transfer Learning via Pruned Model Ensembles: No Retrain, No Pain

Davido Zhang, Age: 17
Phillips Exeter Academy, NH
Project Title: Lipschitz Optimal Transport Maps

Meadow Zhang, Age: 17
Horace Greeley High School, NY
Project Title: Leveraging Lipid Nanoparticle Technology for the Targeted Delivery of mRNA to Germinal Center B Cells

Brandon Zhang, Age: 17
Stuyvesant High School, NY
Project Title: Union Certification Elections at Starbucks: Analyzing Voting Patterns and Predictors of Union Support

Alaina Zhang, Age: 17
Portsmouth Abbey School, RI
Project Title: Sugar Kelp as a Sustainable Biofilter for Nutrient Removal: A Case Study in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island

Ray Zhang, Age: 17
Thomas Jefferson High School for vlog and Technology, VA
Project Title: Biofilm Composition in Clinical Isolates of Fungal Fusarium and Development of a Multi-Targeted Antifungal Treatment To Inhibit Proliferation

Owen Jianwen Zhang, Age: 18
Bellevue High School, WA
Project Title: Tetrahedron-Intersecting Families of 3-uniform Hypergraphs

Angeline Zhao, Age: 18
Phillips Academy, MA
Project Title: Finding Belonging in the Big City: Understanding Communities-of-Interest in NYC Redistricting via Monte Carlo Simulations

Miranda Zhao, Age: 17
Bronx High School of vlog, NY
Project Title: Extreme Weather Events Predicted by Novel Active Machine Learning Model With Deep Neural Operator

Emily Zhao, Age: 17
Manhasset High School, NY
Project Title: Piezocatalysis With Optimized Turbulent Flow in Hydro Turbine for Eutrophication Remediation

Zitong Zhou, Age: 18
The Culver Academies, IN
Project Title: Self-Shape Sensing Soft Pneumatic Grasper Based on Piecewise Liquid Metal Sensor and Piecewise Variational Curvature Model

Winston Zhou, Age: 17
Syosset High School, NY
Project Title: Discrete Wavelet Multiview-Based Parallel Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Forecasting El Niño–Southern Oscillation Cycles

Zirui Zhu, Age: 17
Webb School of California, CA
Project Title: Highly Flexible Ankle Joint Lower Limb Exoskeleton for Hemiplegic Patients: Integrating Assistive and Rehabilitation Functions

Ashley Zhu, Age: 17
Hunter College High School, NY
Project Title: On Lobe Disappearance of n-Loop Curves Under Curve Shortening Flow

Minghao Zou, Age: 18
Valley Christian High School, CA
Project Title: A New Particle Pusher With Hadronic Interactions for Modeling Multimessenger Emission From Compact Objects

Ivan Zou, Age: 17
Stuyvesant High School, NY
Project Title: Targeting CDK7: Comparing the Effects of Inhibition, Degradation and Phosphorylation Mutants