CSEF Category Awards: 2018
Mathematical Sciences

Senior Division

Awards Ceremony photo to come

S1516 — First Place

Grant Sheen, Grade 11
Wireless Brainwave Classification for Alzheimer's Patients via Efficient Neural Network Computation
Advisor: Dr. Knut Solna
School: Sage Hill High School, Newport Coast, Orange County

S1510 — Second Place

Rachana Madhukara, Grade 10
Asymptotics of Character Sums
Advisor: Dr. Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo
School: Canyon Crest Academy, San Diego, San Diego County

S1508 — Third Place

John Kim, Grade 11
Emotion Recognition from Human Speech Using Temporal Information and Deep Learning
Advisor: Dr. Rif Saurous
School: Menlo School, Atherton, San Mateo County

S1504 — Fourth Place

Guadalupe Bernal, Grade 11
Deep Learning Based Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Mobile Robots in Pedestrian Environments
Advisor: Mr. Eric Wright
School: Folsom High School, Folsom, Sacramento County

S1502 — Honorable Mention

Ramya Ayyagari, Grade 10
A Deep Learning Approach for Analyzing Tumor Histopathological Image Slides to Predict Breast Cancer
Advisor: Mr. Richard Hanson
School: Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, Alameda County

S1515 — Honorable Mention

Alejandro Rodriguez, Grade 11
BACON: Deep-Learning Powered AI for Poetry Generation with Author Linguistic Style Transfer
Advisor: Ms. Anu Kuefner
School: Campolindo High School, Moraga, Contra Costa County

S1519 — Honorable Mention

Mokshith Voodarla, Grade 11
TionAI: Understanding Human Emotion through an Ensemble of Convolutional Neural Networks for better AI-Human Interaction
Advisor: Mr. Eric Ferrante
School: Cupertino High School, Cupertino, Santa Clara County

S1520 — Honorable Mention

James L. Wang, Grade 12
Improving Mitosis Detection and Localization in Breast Cancer Histology Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Advisor: Mrs. Janet Kaehms
School: Dublin High School, Dublin, Alameda County