2021 YHSSA USA Regional Finalists
Congratulations to the following students who will enter the global final!
Biology
| Name | School name | Paper title | |
| Gold | Neil Chowdhury | Phillips Exeter Academy | Interplay Between Loop Extrusion and Compartmentalization During Mitosis |
| Silver | Anish Mudide | Phillips Exeter Academy | SARS-CoV-2 Drug Discovery based on Intrinsically Disordered Regions |
Chemistry
| Name | School name | Paper title | |
| Gold | Helen Zheng | Watchung Hills Regional High School | 3D Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 RDRP Mutant Proteins in Drug Resistance and Viral Evolution |
| Silver | Hubert Chen | West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School | A Computational Approach to Identify Small Molecules Interact with the Crystal Structure of Programmed Cell Death Protein 1 as Potential Therapeutics for Cancer Immunotherapy |
| Silver | Jingchen Wang | Phillips Exeter Academy | Molecular Dynamics Study of The Structural and Mechanical Properties of Polymer Insertion In Calcium Silicate Hydrate |
Computer Science
| Name | School name | Paper title | |
| Gold | Yihao Huang | Phillips Academy | Efficient Algorithm for Parallel Bi-core Decomposition |
| Claire Wang | |||
| Silver | Remington Kim | Bergen County Academies | OrphaDRGL: A Novel Graph Deep Learning-based Drug Repositioning Approach for Orphan Diseases |
Mathematics
| Name | School name | Paper title | |
| Gold | Yi Liang | Phillips Exeter Academy | Some Computations on Instanton Knot Homology |
| Gold | William Yue | MIT PRIMES | Patterns in the Lattice Homology of Seifert Homology Spheres |
| Isaac Zhu | |||
| Karthik Seetharaman |
Physics
| Name | School name | Paper title | |
| Gold | Alex Hu | The Harker School | Improved Graph Formalism for Quantum Circuit Simulation |