Meet this year’s individual and team finalists of the 2016 Siemens Competition!
These talented students will gather in Washington, DC on December 5-6, where they will be competing for scholarship prizes of up to $100,000 at the George Washington University. Find out more about these brilliant young individuals and their projects by checking out their project abstracts and bios below.
And be sure to tune in to the announcement of the 2016 national winners at 11:00 am, on Tuesday, December 6, 2016.
INDIVIDUALS
Vineet Edupuganti -- Senior from Oregon Episcopal School in Portland, OR, resides in Portland.
- Project: "Development of a High-Performance Biodegradable Battery for Transient Electronics."
Blake Hord -- Senior from Dobbs Ferry High School in Dobbs Ferry, NY, resides in Dobbs Ferry.
- Project: “High Mass Planet Spiral Shocks as a Source of Infrared Emission in Protoplanetary Disks.â€
Prateek Kalakuntla -- Senior from Texas Academy of Math and Science in Denton, TX, resides in Plano.
- Project: "Luminescent Heavy Metal Sensors.â€
Alexander Kirov -- Senior from Greenbrier High School in Evans, GA, resides in Evans.
- Project: Exosomes in Amyloid Aggregates Promote Neuronal Damage: A Mechanism of Alzheimer’s Pathology."
Manan Shah -- Senior from Harker Upper School in San Jose, CA, resides in Los Altos.
- Project: "Deep Learning Assessment of Tumor Proliferation in Histopathological Images for Categorical and Molecular Breast Cancer Severity and Diagnosis."
Pranav Sivakumar -- Senior from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, IL, resides in Tower Lakes.
- Project: "Searches for Almost Dark Galaxies in Blank Sky Fields with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.â€
TEAMS
Adhya Beesam – Senior at Plano East Senior High School in Plano, TX residing in Richardson and Shriya Beesam – Junior at Plano East Senior High School in Plano, TX residing in Richardson.
- Project: "Linked Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System: A Novel Approach to Schizophrenia Diagnosisâ€
Katherine Cao -- Senior at Homestead High School in Mequon, of Mequon, WI residing in Mequon, William Hu– Senior at Saratoga High School in Saratoga, CA residing in Saratoga and Alice Wu – Senior at Half Hollow Hills High School West in Dix Hills, NY; residing in Dix Hills.
- Project: "Characterizing Novel, Spun-Cast PLA/Polystyrene Substrates of Differential Nanoscale Surface Topographies and Optimizing Cell-Plating Density to Promote Dental Pulp Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation in vitro.â€
Nikhil Cheerla -- Senior at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, CA and Anika Cheerla -- Sophomore at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, CA, both residing in Cupertino.
- Project: "Mitosis Detection and Tumor Grading Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks."
Jasmin Gao -- Senior at Northview High School in Johns Creek, GA., residing in Suwanee, GA and Rose Hong -- Junior at Del Norte High School in San Diego, CA residing in San Diego.
- Project: “Effects of Fibrin Gel Scaffolds and Dexamethasone on the Differentiation of Human Dental Pulp Stem Cells for Applications in Regenerative Endodontics.â€
Louis Golowich – Junior at Lexington High School in Lexington, MA residing in Lexington and Richard Zhou –Junior at Lexington High School residing in Lexington.
- Project: “Maximum Size of a Family of Pairwise Graph-Different Permutations.â€
Yoshihiro Saito -- Sophomore at Marriotts Ridge High School in Marriottsville, MD residing in Ellicott City, MD and Lauryn Wu – Sophomore at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, VA residing in McLean, VA.
- Project: "New Discovery of Large Bulk Band Gap Topological Insulators in Chemically Functionalized Two-Dimensional Compounds."
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