2022 USA Regional Semi-Finalists (All Subjects)

The oral presentations for the 2022 Yau High School Science Award will take place in the Goldsmith building at Brandeis University on November 19-20, 2022. The campus address is 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453.  


The awards will be announced at the ceremony and banquet at 6:00 PM, November 20 at the Faculty Club of Brandeis University.


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Mathematics


School nameNamePaper title
The Episcopal AcademyEric CuiDimensionality reduction of the freedoms constituting The Index of Economic Freedom
Phillips Exeter AcademyYifei ZhaoA Family of 3-Manifolds Arising from the Plumbing Construction
Skyline High SchoolBailing HouCOVID-19 Vaccines: How Widely Are They being Used and Are They Safe for the General Public?
Lakeside School (MIT PRIMES)Edward YuA Turán-Type Problem in Mixed Graphs
The Bear Creek SchoolJingyi ZhaoOn the Accuracy and Efficiency of Differential Equation Estimators: Numerical Analysis and Modifications to Existing Methods
McLean High School (MIT PRIMES)Ethan ZhouOnline Learning of Smooth Functions
The Harker School (MIT PRIMES)Ethan Y LiuThe Ideal of Vanishing Polynomials and the Ring of Polynomial Functions
Matvey Borodin
Justin Zhang



Biology


School nameNamePaper title
Collège Jean-de-BrébeufNina Qi Han GengIdentification of DDX60 as a Regulator of MHC-I Class Molecules in Colorectal Cancer
St. Paul's SchoolHaoyang ZhouAge-specific activation of microglial genes and crosstalk between glial cells modulate Trem2-dependent immune response in Alzheimer's disease
Concord AcademyIrene Yicheng JiangCGRP-RAMP3-cAMP Signaling Axis in Helper-T Cell Differentiation
Phillips Exeter AcademyBohan LiuComputer System Uses the EPSEIRV and SI3R Model to Produce Epidemic Projections and Aid the Arrangement of Hospitalization Resources During Pandemics
The Taft SchoolVincent ChenExtracellular vesicles derived from oxidatively stressed stromal cells promote cancer progression
Rutgers Preparatory SchoolZihan LiuComputer Designed Small Molecule Acetylcholinerase Inhibitors As Potential Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease
Milton AcademyYi(Anna) YangImproved Ethanol Tolerance and Production in Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Princeton International School of Mathematics and ScienceHanwen MiaoSafe Distance of Virus Quantitative Analysis and Simulation of the Trajectory of Pathogen-Containing Droplets in the Air Respiratory Airways
The Taft SchoolNick ChenPlant diversity along a 3000 km transect across Northern China: associations with environmental factors and productivity
Phillips Exeter Academy (MIT PRIMES)Anish MudideNeural Granger Causality on DAGs Reconstructs Gene Regulatory Networks from Single-cell Transcriptomics
Danbury Math AcademyAdeethyia ShankarWavelet-Based Microbiome Correlations of Host Traits
Stephanie Chang



Chemistry


School nameNamePaper title
Rutgers Preparatory SchoolZhijian MaoDetermination of Global Migration Single Defect Site and Its Electronic Structure with Various Sizes
HoldernessShengchen GuanSynthesis of Hyperbranched Dual anti-counterfeiting Polymers Based on Michael Addition Reaction
Leon Huang
Westlake High SchoolAlan WangThree-Dimensional Hierarchical Porous Electrode Structure for Improved Performance in Battery Applications
Phillips Exeter AcademyAndrew YuanMediation of Chain-end Stereocontrol and Living Radical Polymerization Through Lewis Acid-tethered Radical Deactivator and Application to Cobalt Porphyrin-Catalyzed CO2 Reduction
Kent SchoolHoward HuaPressure Induced Electronic Responses of Vacancy-Ordered Double Perovskites Cs2BX6 (B = Zr, Pd, Sn; X = Cl, Br, I)



Computer Science


School nameNamePaper title
Phillips Academy (MIT PRIMES)Michael HuangTheoretically Efficient Parallel Density-Peaks Clustering
Princeton International School of Mathematics and ScienceYibo ChengMin-Max Optimal Matching
Princeton International School of Mathematics and ScienceBomin WeiDeepLPI: a novel deep learning-based model for protein-ligand interaction prediction for drug repurposing
MIT PRIMESHyojae ParkPrivate Access Control for Function Secret Sharing
Eliyahu Yablon
Simon Beyzerov
The Athenian SchoolRuihan ZhangGCN-TRN: Efficient Transformer based Electric Vehicle Charging Demand Forecasting System
The Harker SchoolRohan T BhowmikA Personalized Respiratory Disease Exacerbation Prediction Technique Based on a Novel Spatio-Temporal Machine Learning Architecture
Menlo School (MIT PRIMES)Andrew TungNew Properties of the Intrinsic Information and Their Relation to Bound Secrecy
Karthik Vedula
Basis San Antonio ShavanoHannah GuanMulti-Dimensional Interpretable Interaction Network (MDiiN) for Modeling Aging Health and Mortality



Economic and Financial Modeling


School nameNamePaper title
MIT PRIMESBenjamin FanDeep Learning for Solving and Estimating Dynamic Macro-Finance Models
Edward Qiao
The Hockaday SchoolXiaoxuan LiThe Signaling Effects of Post-Secondary Education Starting Points: What Community Colleges Mean for Four-Year Universities and Students Pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree
Athenian SchoolYankai FengSponsored-link auction and market segmentation in two-sided markets
Basis Independent Silicon ValleyVishak SrikanthGame Theoretic Approach to Explaining Causality: An Application to study Causal Socioeconomic Factors Affecting the Spread of COVID-19



Physics


School nameNamePaper title
Phillips Exeter AcademyIshaan VohraNuSmear: Fast Simulation of Energy Smearing and Angular Smearing for Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering Events in the GENIE Event Generator
Crescent SchoolKen ChengA Need For Speed: Enhancing F1 Race Cars with a Novel Computational Fluid Dynamics and Machine Learning Method
Pittsford Sutherland High SchoolEdward WuTemperature Dependence of Qubit Decoherence and Applications for Optimizing Quantum Hardware
Institut Le RoseyJiayi ZhouChemical and kinematic analysis of the ancient star J0449?-5656 and its origins in the early universe
Mira Costa High SchoolCindy LinBrownian Thermal Noise of Thin Optical Coatings and Optimizations of Mirror Shapes
Danbury Math AcademyJack LiuIdentifying Thermokarst Lakes in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Using Discrete Wavelet Transform--Based Deep Learning
Olivia Liu
Andrew Li
Portsmouth Abbey SchoolXingchuan MaAerodynamic Analysis of a Car based on Computational Fluid Dynamics and Machine Learning