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Ryan Wang, North Creek High School. Backend Developer of DeepTracer@ DAIS. 2024 summer - present.
National Merit Semifinalist, co-author of a paper in Bioinformatics Advances, 2026
Ruikuan Zhu, System Lead of DeepTracer @ DAIS, 2024 summer – 2026 summer. Enrolled at Stanford in 2025.
Individual presenter at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2025
Bryan Nie, North Creek High School. UI/UX Developer of iCare @ DAIS, 2024 winter - 2025 summer. Enrolled at UW in 2025.
First high schooler to present at the Summer Symposium at UW Bothell (2024 summer)
Kiran Mitra, The Overlake School. Backend Developer of DeepTracer @ DAIS, 2021 summer - 2024 summer. Enrolled at Cornell in 2023.
Awardee of 2023 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing
Isabel Amaya. Inglemoor High School. 2023 Winter. UI/UX Developer of iCare @ DAIS, 2023 winter - 2025 summer. Enrolled at UW in 2023.
Awardee of 2023 NCWIT Aspirations in Computing and UW NASA Space Grant Scholar
Adrian Avram, The Overlake School. Frontend Developer of DeepTracer @ DAIS, 2020 Summer - 2021 Spring. Enrolled at UW in 2021.
First DAIS K-12 Outreach Student
Dr. Dong Si has been honored with the 2022 UW Bothell Outstanding Community-Engaged Scholar Award. The annual award recognizes impactful community-engaged scholarship by UW Bothell faculty who collaborate between institutions of higher education and the larger community.
Please read the news story here. (Article credit: Elisabeth Schnebele)
Dr. Dong Si was interviewed by KIRO 7 about his research team's work of using AI to model the coronavirus. (Photo credit: Maria Lamarca Anderson)
Dr. Dong Si was highlighted by Diversity in Action about his research team's effort of using AI to fight the COVID. (Article credit: Douglas Esser and Lacey Arnold)