B.R.E.E.S.E. (Battery Recharge via Environmental Energy from Secondary Exhaust)

Adne Burruss

🏅 Honorable Mention

Comparing Appearance-Based and Health-Based Messaging to Increase Sunscreen Use Among High School Students

Elyas Alanis

🏅 Honorable Mention

Cost-Optimized, Long-Life AA Rechargeable Battery with an Electroplated-Zinc Anode and PVA-Calcium Chloride Hydrogel Electrolyte

Nolan Soo

🏅 First Place

Evolutionary Conservation and Structural Mapping of the Coronavirus Membrane (M) Protein Across SARS-CoV-2 and Sarbecovirus Lineages

Pritha Sankar

🏅 Second Place

R Shiny App to Track Acute Chronic Workload Ratio

Erika Mead

🏅 Second Place

Simulating Improved Photonic Quantum Fidelity from Hardware Through Loss-Aware Ancilla Decoding

Anish Kumar & Neel Mehta

🏅 First Place

Smart Detection, Perfect Protection: Optimizing Natural Coagulants for Cost-Effective Microplastic Treatment

Abhijith Sivaprakash & Shrey Mehta

🏅 First Place, Irvine Ranch Water District Award

Uneven spine, uneven bone mineral density, what’s the correlation?

Iman Rizvi

🏅 Honorable Mention

A Comparative Analysis of Image Steganography Techniques in Digital Images

Lakshmi Chakka

🏅 First Place

A Robotic Curb-Assist Mechanism to Improve Children Pediatric Rollator Mobility and Independence

Nancy Sun

🏅 First Place

Alzheimer's: A look into the Brain

Adrian Birjandi, Ronit Kumar and & Veeresh Kale

🏅 Honorable Mention

Balynce: Fall Prevention Solution

Tyler Chen

🏅 Honorable Mention

Bioelectrochemical Power Production in Living Plant Systems

Hana Fahim

🏅 Second Place

Clues in the Clumps

Arya Dhar

🏅 Honorable Mention

Designing CRISPR Edits for a Parkinson’s Related Mutation in the SNCA Gene

Simran Uppal & Snithi Saravanan

🏅 Honorable Mention

Detecting Bias: A structured approach to identifying hidden bias in text

Amish Singh

🏅 Honorable Mention

Detection of Liquid Concentration using Tyndall Effect by Machine Learning and Image Analysis

Vincent Li, Hanfei Liu and & Zihan Xu

🏅 Honorable Mention, Irvine Ranch Water District Award

Developing a Biocompatible Hydrogel Model to Evaluate Hyaluronidase as a Therapeutic for Myxomatous Valve Degeneration

Parsa Jokar

🏅 Second Place

DRILLING ON THE RED PLANET

Apurva Ubale, Benjamin Ghogale and & Arnav Shanmugam

🏅 Honorable Mention

Evaluating the Structural and Degradative Properties of Polylactic Acid (PLA), Starch-Based, and Fiber-Reinforced Bioplastics for Medical Use

Haiyun (Jenni) Rui & Chen (Jessica) Zhou

🏅 Second Place

Glaciers galore

Neha Ramesh

🏅 Second Place

Helmholtz Resonator Chains for Acoustic Bandgaps and Noise Mitigation

William Hong

🏅 Second Place

IoT-Based Smart Parking Space Detection and Management System with AI Computer Vision

Carson Lv & Aadhi Suresh

🏅 First Place

LifeSavr: A Deep Learning Framework for Predicting and Optimizing Critical EMS Response

Anish Madishetty

🏅 First Place

Modeling the Impact of Lifestyle and Health factors on Sleep Disorder Using Advanced Machine Learning

Keshav Subramanian

🏅 Honorable Mention

Multimodal Music: Sending Emotional Information through Other Channels

Joonseo Chung & Minseo Chung

🏅 First Place

Plants Can Learn Patterns

Lily Yagi

🏅 Honorable Mention

Quantitative Analysis of the Effect of a Remineralization Filter on Reverse Osmosis (RO) Filtered Water

Yejoon Choi

🏅 First Place, Irvine Ranch Water District Award

Quantitative Modeling of Glioblastoma Cell Density Beyond MRI Visible Margins

Nishvith Sudhakar

🏅 Second Place

Reducing Single-Use Plastic Pollution

Avril Eich

🏅 Second Place

Smart Helmet Device

Yasseen Bahei-eldin

🏅 Second Place

SparkNet: Transparent Prediction of Wildfire Potential in Southern California

Yash Kher & Atharva Soni

🏅 First Place

The Chlorine Routine: Using Daphnia Magna to Understand the Effects of Chlorine Exposure on Aquatic Athletes

Darren Bui

🏅 Second Place

The Dr. Heart Application: Using Electrocardiography to Predict Heart Diseases

Prithvinath Oduru, Ashray Gowda Mahadeva and & Hayden Jian

🏅 Second Place

The Effect of TAT Protein Inhibitors on T-cell Cytokine Production

Ella Yu & Hannah Bae

🏅 First Place

The Inhibitory Mechanism of Synthetic Sweeteners on Metabolism

Anika Kurup

🏅 Second Place

Using a UAV & ML to create a low-cost HLB detecting system

Andrew Lee & Joshua Qiu

🏅 Honorable Mention

Using Siamese Networks Trained on Similarity Scores to Classify Rocks and Minerals

Ryan Jo

🏅 First Place

Vision Based Safety Monitoring of Collaborative Robotic Arms

Benjamin Oh

🏅 Honorable Mention

A Contrastive Multi-View Self-Supervised Framework for Network Intrusion Detection with Finite-Difference Temporal Modeling (CMVS-FTM)

Bowen Wu

🏅 First Place

Accelerating Transmission Spectroscopy of Exoplanets for Biosignature Detection Using Machine Learning

Sandhya Shanmuga-Nathan

🏅 First Place

Armadillobot: The Green Project

Yeeun Ryu

🏅 Honorable Mention

Assessing Symbolic Regression Model Benchmarks’ Effectiveness: Impact of Using Synthetic Data for Benchmarks

Chanoo Yoon

🏅 Honorable Mention

Autism Alliance: Detecting Autism Risk Factors in Children

Smriti Mishra

🏅 First Place

BioGlow

Sharon Shen & Enaya Qadir

🏅 First Place

Breaking the Bacterial Barrier: Enhanced Targeted Therapy on the Lipopolysaccharide of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Using a Phage-Antibiotic Cocktail

Driti Rajkumar

🏅 First Place

Calcium Carbonate and Coralite

Sydney Satitpunwaycha & Dhriti Bhima Reddy

🏅 First Place

CRISPR design targeting CYP79D1 and CYP79D2 in cassava plants to lower cyanogenic glucoside toxicity

Rachel Kim

🏅 Honorable Mention

Examining the Effect of Saline Water and Vibrio vulnificus on Gut Tight Junction Protein Expression and Inflammation Markers

Mahima Wuppalapati

🏅 Second Place

From Diet to Dysbiosis: The Effects of Gluten on Inflammation Through Bacterial Growth and Biofilm Formation

Nimishii Sharma

🏅 Honorable Mention

Impact of moderately elevated indoor CO2 on Cognitive Performance

Jaewoo Ryu

🏅 Second Place

Lumisafe: Privacy-Focused Fall Detection System using Time-of-Flight Cameras and Machine Learning

Junxin Yu

🏅 First Place

Measuring Infinity: Estimating the Area of the Mandelbrot Set

Yufan Kuang, Bingzhen Han and & Haoxuan Li

🏅 Second Place

Microplastic Transport in Soil: A Dynamic Model of Earthworm Bioturbation

Ethan Van

🏅 First Place

Noise and Neurons: How the Colors of Noise Affect Brain Function

Aanya Paymaster

🏅 Second Place

Oasys

Avnit Kaur

🏅 Honorable Mention, Irvine Ranch Water District Award

ReFlex: Applying Surface EMG for Real Time Communication

Andrew Tsai

🏅 First Place

Species Specific Microbiome Sequence Analysis of Gulf War Illness

Meghana Wuppalapati

🏅 Second Place

Stopping safely: A study of the best forward collision alerts

Sumin Kim

🏅 First Place

Sweeteners and Salivary Amylase: Effects on Starch Digestion and Potential Blood Glucose Response

Tanav Gopalakrishna

🏅 Honorable Mention

Telescope Simulator

Yitian Zhao

🏅 Honorable Mention

The Shark Fin Tradar: An Illegal Shark Fin Trade Risk Finder

Aahana Bhise

🏅 Honorable Mention

Investigating Sunscreen Stability Under Prolonged Sunlight

Sylvia Liang

🏅 Honorable Mention

AI Based Elderly Fall Prediction Using Gait Features from Commercial Wearable Devices

Eshaan Pal

🏅 First Place

AI Classifier to Evaluate the Diagnostic Utility of a Deep Learning Pathology Image Restoration Model

Virat Varada

🏅 First Place

Brain Age Estimation via In-context Learning of Foundation Models

Kaylee Shi

🏅 Honorable Mention

Classification of Cells in Bone Marrow Histopathology Slides of Acute Myeloid Leukemia with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Through Transfer Learning

Sophia Liu

🏅 Second Place

Conditional Controls on Kelvin-Wave-Driven Initiation of Historical El Nino Events

Avery Hexun

🏅 First Place

Decoding Human Depression Through Genomics

Gordon Xu

🏅 First Place

Design and Validation of an AI-Based Adaptive Music System for Personalized Sound Therapy

Adonis Jaison

🏅 Second Place

Designing Low Off Target CRISPR sgRNAs for Sickle Cell Disease Using Computational Analysis

Tan Wang

🏅 Honorable Mention

DiaBreath: A Multimodal AI approach for Noninvasively Diagnosing Diabetes Mellitus using Exhaled Breath and Surveyed Data

Woosung Choi

🏅 First Place

Dirt Dilemmas: Does Scraping Burned Soil Help or Hurt?

Maddy Price

🏅 Second Place

Dust Gobbler

Muhammed Kashif Kamal

🏅 Second Place

Effect of Fluid Viscosity on Pattern Formation and Interface Instability in Viscous Fluid Systems

Ellie Twardos

🏅

Effects of Beta Cell Specific Smc3 Loss on Islet Cell Identity and Inflammation

Daniel Nam

🏅 First Place

Engineered Endogenous Exosome-Packed Phenyl Boronate, a biochemical redox scavenger as an effective sensitizer for immunotherapy in Cervical Carcinogenesis

Annika Chatterjee

🏅 First Place

Ensemble Machine Learning Models Enhance Classification of BRCA1/2 Variants Beyond Single In-Silico Predictors

Priyanka Singh

🏅 Honorable Mention

Evaluating AI’s Responses for Suicide Prevention

Aditi Choudhuri

🏅 Second Place

Evolution in swimming behavior: Basal bees show stronger dark preference

Yiheng Cai

🏅 Honorable Mention

Factors That Influence Happiness: A Statistical Analysis of Lifestyle and Well-Being

Christina Wodarz

🏅 Honorable Mention

Green Gradients: A Novel Loss-Landscape-Aware Hypergradient Meta-Optimizer for Eco-Friendly Transformer Training

Ashvik Nacham

🏅 First Place

Melanocortin-Driven Neuroprotection: Transcriptomic Evidence Supporting α-MSH Modulation as a Therapy in Parkinson’s Disease

Bhavana Thirunavukkarasan

🏅 Honorable Mention

Mindsense

Albert Chen

🏅 Honorable Mention

MRI Compressed Sensing Using 2D Cartesian Acquisition

Kyle Tain

🏅 Honorable Mention

Novel Mechanistic Risk Mapping of California Wild-fire Pollutants-induced Endothelial Dysfunction linked Cardiac-Arrhythmia

Shreyan Chatterjee

🏅 First Place

Optimizing a Model Mass Driver for Efficient and Sustainable Launches

Rishabh Khaparde

🏅 Honorable Mention

OptiPress: Empowering Glaucoma Patients with Accessible At-Home Intraocular Pressure Monitoring

Ian Jia & Derek Tran

🏅 First Place

PreFlight AI

Samriddho Bhowal

🏅 First Place

Quantifying Cognitive Entropy in Multi-Agent LLM Orchestration Layers

Andrei Saramukov

🏅 First Place

Rescuing the Heart: Assessing Antipsychotic Cardiotoxicity and Mitigation Strategies in Zebrafish

Amanda Li

🏅 Honorable Mention

Response of tardigrades to reactive oxidative species (ROS) perturbation in the presence of exogenous antioxidants

Ivana Poon

🏅 First Place

Skin Cancer Detection Using Machine Learning

Kian Wu

🏅 First Place

Testing Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria: How Does a Bacteria's Genetic Material Mutate as it Grows Resistant to an Antibiotic?

Theertha Hariharan Arulmozhi

🏅 Honorable Mention

The Effect of Road Salts on Lake Tahoe’s Aquatic Ecosystem

Natalie Chien

🏅 Honorable Mention

The Effects of Herbicide on Drosophila melanogaster (Fruit Flies) Reproduction

Allison Liang

🏅 Honorable Mention

TrackSight: Online Navigation for Disabilities

Eugene Dai

🏅 Second Place

Uncovering Dynamic Cell States and Gene Expression Changes During Early Stages of Wound Healing Using Single-Cell Analysis

Katherine Xie

🏅 Honorable Mention

Using Machine Learning to analyze environmental factors such as temperature

Ethan Chen

🏅 Honorable Mention

Using Springy Supporting Frame on Posterior Region on Tuna-like Carangiform Robotic Fish

Marcel Guo

🏅 First Place

VoicePD

Kevin Chou & Aaron Kim

🏅 First Place

Why Brain Change Matters: Longitudinal MRI for Early Alzheimer’s Risk

Michael Jian

🏅 Second Place

A Low‑Cost Conductive Hydrogel for Real‑Time Infection Monitoring in Wound Environments

Lakshmi Suresh & Joshua Robertson

🏅 First Place

Airfoil Shape Study on High Performance Glider Flight

Jiexi Rao

🏅 First Place

Chromosomal Distribution Analysis of Wound Healing Genes

Aarin Jambhekar

🏅 Second Place

Electrically Driven Microplastic Aggregation

Ankush Girish

🏅 Honorable Mention, Irvine Ranch Water District Award

ImmunoPredictivity: Predicting patient Immunogenicity to monoclonal antibody drugs using HLA genes and Machine Learning

Pranav Gurukar

🏅 Second Place

Multi-Label LLM Pretraining With A Smaller “Teacher” Model

Nathan Truong

🏅 First Place

Ocean Armor: Nature's Shield Against Rising Tides

Mai Takano & Yun Jen Yeh

🏅 First Place, Irvine Ranch Water District Award

PenTest AI Agent : Affordable LLM Based Automated Penetration Testing Solution for Small Business Owners

Mikhail Buskin

🏅 Honorable Mention

Roof-Rot

Shaurya Sharma

🏅 Honorable Mention

StudySense: Analyzing the Relationship Between Visual Attention and Learning Performance

Shreya Pandey & Ashley Yeo

🏅 Second Place

The Critical Failure- A Health, Economic & Safety Audit of Stroke Prediction Models

Eric Breeze

🏅 Honorable Mention

Universal Quantum Error Mitigation via Random Inverse Depolarizing Approximation

Alexander Miller

🏅 Second Place

Using AI to Help Keep Students on Task

Chris Franklin Michael Raj

🏅 First Place