2024 USA Regional Semi-Finalists (All Subjects)
Mathematics
Name | School name | Paper title |
Sargam Mondal | Edison Academy Magnet School | Exact Factorizations of G-Crossed Braided Fusion Categories |
Eric Yee | Henry M. Jackson High School | Describing Hilbert series of quasi-invariants in characteristics $p\leq n$ |
Susie Lu | Stanford Online High School | Network Topology Design via Minimizing Laplacian Energy |
Jiwu Jang | Lexington High School | Vertex functions of type D Nakajima quiver varieties |
Neil Krishnan | Harker Upper School | On the connectivity of friends-and-strangers graphs |
Isaac Chen | Princeton Day School | On the Crossing Profile of Rectilinear Drawings of Complete Graph |
Sidarth Erat | La Jolla High School | Mixed Tensor Products, Capelli Berezinians, and Newton's Formula for gl(m|n) |
Shihan Kanungo | Henry M. Gunn High School |
Biology
Name | School name | Paper title |
Junrui Jonathan Hai | Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science | Rutin attenuates distraction spinal cord injury through inhibiting inflammation by downregulating P38 MAPK/NF-κB/STAT3 pathway |
Andrew Liang | The Harker School | An Intelligent Bee Health Assessment System with Cross-Attention Multimodal Integration of Visual and Audio Data |
Yifan Evan Ding | Boston Latin School | Engineering of a compact gene switch for temporal control of CRISPR gene editing |
Xinran Ma | The Spence School | Beyond Conventional Therapy: Synthesis of Multi-functional Nanoparticles for Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapy |
Ethan Liu | Phillips Exeter Academy | Examining Differentially Expressed Genes Associated with the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease |
Jamie Cheng | Green Level High School | AllerGel: Inhalable Bioadhesive Microspheres to Prevent Particulate Matter-Induced CRDs and CRS |
Sindhu Vemulapalli | Vista del Lago High School | Discovery of Small Molecule TLR4 Inhibitors as Potential Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease |
Chemistry
Name | School name | Paper title |
Aiden Chen | Old Scona Academic | Computational Screening and Design of Metal-Organic Frameworks for CO2 Separation from Flue Gas |
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Christopher Jonee Li | St George's School (BC) | Enhancing Li-Mg selectivity via MOFs based membrane |
Victor Li | University High School | Allo-DiffHopping: A Pocket-Ligand Interactions Conditional E(3) Equivariant Diffusion Model for Scaffold Hopping |
Qiuen Yu | The Lawrenceville School | How Soil pH Shapes PFAS Uptake in Plants: Exploring Microbial Interactions and the Hidden Link to the Phosphorus Cycle |
ZIYI FENG | The Bullis School | Preparation of Chitosan-Based Nanocomposite Films and Their Effectiveness on Egg Coating for Preservation and Sterilization |
Cindy Cheng | Laurel Heights Secondary School | Creating Soft Microrobotic Carriers for Stem Cell Delivery: Materials Chemistry and Fabrication Method |
Computer Science
Name | School name | Paper title |
Xiangzhou Sun | The Webb Schools | GazeLink: A Multi-language Low-cost Mobile Eye-gesture Communication System with Large Language Models for People with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis |
Jiarui Dong | Ecole Jeannine Manuel | SignifAI: French Sign Language Translation based on Deep Learning and Large Language Models |
Haorun Li | Horace Mann School | Drug-Target Interaction Prediction via Deep Multimodal Graph and Structural Learning |
Zijian Yu | Blair Academy | Decision Focused Modeling-Based Predictive Control |
Adrita Samanta | Greater Commonwealth Virtual School | Inference of Cell-Cell Communication to Understand the Molecular Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease |
William Zhao | Dougherty Valley High School | Stack-sorting with stacks avoiding vincular patterns |
Alejandro Mayorga | Danbury Math Academy | CTRQNets & LQNets: Continuous Time Recurrent and Liquid Quantum Neural Networks |
Alexander Yuan |
Economic and Financial Modeling
Name | School name | Paper title |
Elisa Chen | Cranbrook Upper School | Modeling Homophily on Information Diffusion Between Groups |
Karen Yang | Palo Alto High School | How Students Fare Mentally: Single- vs. Multi-routes College Admissions |
Ziwen Yin | Kingswood Oxford High School | Modeling Optimal Control of Carbon Mission Reduction with Shandong, Hubei, Shaanxi as Cases |
Yuexin Jiang | Eastside Preparatory School | The Impact of a Unified Green Badge Policy on the Ecommerce Platform |
Meichun Yan | The Study | Dynamic Two-Sided Market Competition: Bottleneck and Solution |
Physics
Name | School name | Paper title |
Zhi Huang | Kent School | Visualization of particulate matters in air using lensless microscopy |
Maximilian Kopp | Germantown Academy | Analysis of the Polarized Photo Response of GeSe and Its Application in Non-invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring |
Qianxun Zhao | Phillips Academy Andover | Deformation Analysis and Functional Designs of Kresling Origami Structures |
Zitong Zhou | Culver Academies | Self-Shape Sensing Soft Pneumatic Grasper Based on Piecewise Liquid Metal Sensor and Piecewise Variational Curvature Model |
Boyu Liu | Homeschool, affiliated to Bayard Rustin High School, West Chester Area School District | Novel Source Localization Method for Hazardous Gas Leaks in Chemical Plants: Integrating Computational Fluid Dynamics, Sensor Placement Optimization, and Deep Learning |
Valencia Zhang | Phillips Academy Andover | Investigating physical conditions and critical factors across the center of the galaxy M82 |