Ravi Jagadeesan, 18Naperville, IL Mathematics: “A New Galois Invariant of Dessins d'Enfants”
Sara Kornfeld Simpson, 17San Diego, CAScience: “Neuronal Nonlinear Dynamics: From an Optical Illusion to Parkinson's Disease”
Ray Ushikubo, 13Riverside, CAMusic: “Circle of Life in Music”
Alice Zhai, 16LaCanada, CAScience: “Dependency of U.S. Hurricane Loss on Maximum Wind Speed and Storm Size”
Eric Chen, 18San Diego, CA Science: “Computer-Aided Discovery of Novel Anti-Flu Drug Candidates to Fight Pandemics”
Valerie Ding, 17Portland, OREngineering: “Novel Next-Generation Multijunction Quantum Dot Solar Panel Designs Using Monte Carlo-Based Modeling”
Ritesh Ragavender, 17Kendall Park, NJMathematics: “Odd Dunkl Operators and nilHecke Algebras”
Elana Simon, 18New York, NYScience: “New Diagnostics and Therapeutics for a Pediatric Liver Cancer: Transcriptome and Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals Oncogenes and Novel Chimeric Protein Kinase in Ten out of Ten Patients”
Neil Davey, 18Gaithersburg, MDScience: “Early Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment through the Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells using Drop-based Microfluidics”
Alexandra LaGrassa, 17Douglastown, NY Science: “Using Ligands to Control the Growth of Cadmium Selenide Clusters”
Kenneth Shinozuka, 15New York, NYTechnology: “Wearable Sensors: A Novel Healthcare Solution for the Aging Society”
Emily Wang, 18Palo Alto, CAScience: “Illuminating Disease Pathways: Developing Bright Fluorescent Proteins to Improve FRET Biosensing”
Sofia Bramante, 17Fairfield, CTEngineering: “Fabrication of a Flexible, Tunable Color Changing Skin using Magnetically Responsive Fe3O4 Photonic Crystal Structures”
Smriti Kanangat, 17Hinsdale, ILScience: “Detection of Soluble Human Histocompatibility Antigens (HLA) in Circulation-Potential Biomarkers for Early Detection of Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (NSCLC)”
Kevin Lee, 17Irvine, CA Mathematics: “Strongly Coupled Electromechanical Modeling of the Heart in Moving Domains Using the Phase-Field Method”
Josh Wolf, 18Elk River, MNScience: “Shocking Lipid Production: Oil Extraction by Novel Electrical Stimulation of Botryococcus braunii”
Isabel DeBre, 17 Los Angeles, CAOutside the Box: “The Problem of Representation: Refugee Trauma in Postcolonial African Fiction”
Tuong-Phi Le, 18Houston, TXLiterature: “Shadow and Song: Revitalizing the Expatriate Vietnamese Identity Through Mythological Media”
Michael Parsons, 18Long Hill, NJMusic: “Composition as Architecture”
Romi Yount, 16San Francisco, CAMusic: “Music without Borders: Transcending Cultural and Temporal Boundaries Through Guzheng Performance”
Miss Shiloh CurtisSunnyvale, CAEngineering: Enabling Situational Awareness: A Hat-Based Hands-Free Haptic Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired
Miss Maya VarmaCupertino, CAEngineering: Arduino-Based Foot Neuropathy Analyzer
Miss Jennifer FrantzHudson, OHLiterature: Anachronism
Miss Dominque NikolaidisWest Bloomfield, MILiterature: Human Identity in a Postmodern World
Mr. Jeffrey CaiBasking Ridge, NJMathematics: Orbits Of A Fixed-Point Subgroup Of The Symplectic Group On Partial Flag Varieties Of Type A
Miss Sahana VasudevanPalo Alto, CAMathematics: Minimizing the Number of Carries in the Set of Coset Representatives of a Normal Subgroup
Mr. Elijah ArmstrongFairfax, CA Outside the Box: The Rule-Dependence Model of the Flynn Effect
Miss Gabrielle DonnellySt. James, NYScience: Vulnerability of Desmodus rotundus (vampire bats) Populations to Individual Removals: Demography Consequences of Sampling Bat Populations
Mr. Andrew JinSan Jose, CAScience: Breast Cancer Prognosis Through Gene Expression Profiling and Tumor Morphology
Mr. Suproteem SarkarWayne, PAScience: Feedback-Mediated Cancer Therapy: A Nanoreporter Approach
Mr. Ryan ChungTerre Haute, INTechnology: MobileSoundDiscoveryApp: Mobile Audio Medical Devices and Quantitative-Qualitative Audio Analysis Applications and Designs Using an Autonomous Audio Knowledge Engine
Mr. Owen KellyPort Orange, FLTechnology: Procedural Generation of Earth-Like Planets
Mr. Ivan PaskovScarsdale, NYTechnology: Predicting Cancer Drug Response Using Nuclear Norm Multi-Task Learning
Miss Gili RusackLoundonville, NYTechnology: Come Code with Codester: An Educational App that Teaches Computer Science
Mr. Ewin TangArlington, TXTechnology: Optical Imaging Probe For Real-Time Detection Of Infection
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