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Miss Mythri AmbatipudiSan Jose, CA Engineering: Combating Neurovirulence of Zika and Flavivirus Epidemics using In Silico Phylogenetic Analysis and RNAi Gene Silencing
Miss Alexandra BrocatoArmonk, NY Engineering: Illuminating non-neuromuscular phenotypes and their temporal trajectory in Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) using electronic health records
Mr. Mateo MasseyJackson Heights, NYEngineering: Autonomous Navigation to Dynamic Oceanographic Features: Localizing the Oceanic Mixed Layer with an In Situ Method and a Three Term Control System
Mr. Joseph Felkers Caledonia, MILiterature: BOXELDER: A study on family, heritage, sexuality, and toothlessness; set in the Midwest.
Miss Eileen Huang Holmdel, NJLiterature: American Girlhood: Giving Voice to the Experiences of Marginalized Americans
Mr. Brian HuangFresh Meadows, NY Mathematics: On Sufficient Conditions for Trapped Surfaces in Spherically Symmetric Spacetimes
Mr. Michael Ma Plano, TXMathematics: New Results on Pattern-Replacement Equivalences: Generalizing a Classical Theorem and Revising a Modern Conjecture
Mr. Daniel Cho Wyncote, PAMusic: For the Audience: Building Emotional Narratives in Relatable, Human Music
Miss Lan JiangIrvine, CA Science: Defining New Diagnostic Paradigm in Primary Central Nervous System Hypersomnias through Statistical Machine Learning
Mr. Rohan MehrotraSaratoga, CA Science: On-demand electrically controlled drug release from resorbable nanocomposite films
Mr. Vishnu Akash PolkampallyOssining, NYScience: Evaluating a mechanism for N2O3 production from hemoglobin, utilizing glassy matrices to trap the reaction between NO and nitrite derivative of methemoglobin
Mr. Nalin RanjanVirginia Beach, VA Science: A High-Efficiency Approach to Simulation of Inverse Compton Scattering and its Implications on the Scattered Linewidth
Mr. Shuvom SadhukaCambridge, MA Science: Searching for Topological Bubbles for Phononic Honeycomb Lattice
Miss Zoe Weiss Atlanta, GAScience: New Cell Type Detection via a Universal Single-Cell Gene Expression Algorithm
Mr. Ayush Agarwal San Ramon, CATechnology: A Novel Paradigm in Computational Precision Medicine: Transitioning to Synthetic Training Data after Unsupervised Adversarial Image Refinement
Miss Anika Cheerla Cupertino, CATechnology: Deep, Multimodal Representation Learning for Pan-Cancer Prognosis Prediction
Mr. Louis GolowichLexington, MA Technology: New Efficient Deterministic Parallel Random Number Generators with Improved Theoretical Properties
Mr. Syamantak Payra Friendswood, TXTechnology: A Smart Bionic Leg Orthosis: The Design, Development and Evaluation of an Orthotic Device for Comprehensive Restoration of Gait Characteristics across Everyday Mobility Scenarios
Miss Eshika SaxenaBellevue, WA Technology: A Mobile Phone Microscopy System for Automated Screening of Hematological Diseases Using Computer Vision Techniques and Convolutional Neural Networks
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