2020 YHSSA USA Regional Finalists
Congratulations to the following students who will enter the global final!
Mathematics
| Name | School | Paper title | |
| Gold | Kenta Suzuki | Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School | Meromorphic functions with the same preimages at several finite sets |
| Silver | Jiaying (Lucy) Cai | Phillips Exeter Academy | A Study of the Carathéodory Conjecture through Non-Rotationally Symmetric Surfaces |
Chemistry
| Name | School | Paper title | |
| Gold | Yuehan Wang | Oaks Christian School | Total Removal of Formaldehyde indoor by Al-based Metal-Organic Framework Decorated with Pt Nanoclusters via Tandem Adsorption and Catalysis |
Physics
| Name | School | Paper title | |
| Gold | Angela Zhou | Magee Secondary School | An Investigation of a Dark Sector Interaction Model to Solve the Hubble Tension |
| Silver | Kenneth Choi | Ridgefield High School | Constructing General Hamiltonian Ground States on a Quantum Computer Using the Projected Cooling Sensor Algorithm |
Biology
| Name | School | Paper title | |
| Gold | Yingshan Wang | Episcopal High School | Single-cell RNA Sequencing Analysis of Human Neural Grafts Revealed Unexpected Cell Type Underlying the Genetic Risk of Parkinson’s Disease |
| Silver | Neil Chowdhury | Phillips Exeter Academy | Modeling the Effect of Histone Methylation on Chromosomal Organization in Colon Cancer Cells |
Computer Science
| Name | School | Paper title | |
| Gold | Hongyi Gao | Phillips Exeter Academy | Heatmap.Live: Crowd Mobility Tracking and Forecasting using IoT Sensors and Transformers |
| Silver | Hyunwoo Lee | Skyline High School (Daniel Hong), Interlake High School (Hyunwoo Lee), Interlake High School (Alex Wei) | Optimal Solutions and Ranks in the Max-Cut SDP |
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| Daniel Hong |
Economics and Financial Modeling
| Name | School | Paper title | |
| Gold | Yunseo Choi | Phillips Exeter Academy | On Two-sided Matching in Infinite Markets |
| Silver | Betty Yuxuan Zhang | Northfield Mount Hermon School | High School Sports Participation and Mental Health Benefits: Do Girls Benefit More? |