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www.newsindiatimes.com – that’s all you need to know 81 Exceptional Teen Scientists Of Indian-Origin Among 300 Finalists Of Prestigious National Competition News India Times (January 10, 2025 - January 16, 2025) January 16, 2025 6 Special Report Language Models for Mycoremediation Data Extraction and Modeling Shivam Gupta, Age: 16 Friendswood High School, Texas Project Title: Vision AI: A Novel and Cost- EffectiveWearable Assistive System for the Visually Impaired Leveraging AI and Machine Vision Karthika Hariprasad, Age: 17 Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, Kentucky Project Title: A Novel Skin Cancer Detector Using Machine Learning Anagha Lakshmi Iyer, Age: 17 American Heritage School, Florida Project Title: A Novel Approach to Sus- tainable Concrete Engineering: Mecha- nochemical Activation of Local Waste Materials for CO2 Reduction Vasu Jain, Age: 17 Edgemont High School, NewYork Project Title: Identification of Chromatin Modification Regulators Implicated in Cancers Through CRISPR Screening Varini Kadakia, Age: 17 Archbishop Mitty High School, California Project Title: Autonomous Drone-Based System for Outdoor Air Pollution Mitiga- tion Brij Kapadia, Age: 17 Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, NewYork Project Title: Percived Negative Energy Density Hawking Radiation Near Black Holes: A Tensorial Derivation Saurish Kapoor, Age: 17 Princeton High School, New Jersey Project Title: A Deep Learning Approach for an Early and Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease in Cattle Using Retinal Fundal Images Khushi Karthikeyan, Age: 18 Ardsley High School, NewYork Project Title: The Supermassive Problem: Probing Potential Stellar Formation Path- ways of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Eashan Kosaraju, Age: 17 Solon High School, Ohio Project Title: A Data-Driven Framework for Quantifying County-Level Structural Disadvantage and Disparities in Prema- ture Mortality Mythili Venkata Kota, Age: 17 McNair Academic High School, New Jersey Project Title: Engineering a Novel Electro- chemical Biosensor Using a Self-Healing ZnO Quantum Dot MatrixWith MIP Tech- nology for Lysozyme Detection Soneesh Kothagundla, Age: 17 South Forsyth High School, Georgia Project Title: Hard To Reach or Hardly Reached? Investigating Use of Lung Can- cer Screening Among Eligible U.S. Adults Receiving Other Cancer Screenings Rushil Kukreja, Age: 16 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Virginia Project Title: Preparing for the Next Car- rington: Spatiotemporal Agent-Based Modeling for Safeguarding Satellite Infra- structure Under Extreme SpaceWeather Disturbances Rhea Malhotra, Age: 18 Stuyvesant High School, NewYork Project Title: Identifying Therapeutic Gene Targets for Cataract and Glaucoma Yashnil Mohanty, Age: 17 Westmont High School, California Project Title: Physics-Guided Neural Fore- casts of Nearshore Harmful Algal Blooms in the California Current System Ananya Gulur Nagendra, Age: 18 Plano East Senior High School, Texas Project Title: Utilizing Ants To Mitigate MSW Landfill-Generated Methane Pro- duction Through Novel Aerobic Digester System for Anthropogenic FoodWaste Decomposition Siddharth Nair, Age: 17 Yorktown High School, NewYork Project Title: Large-Scale Plastic Detection Pipeline via Machine Learning-Augment- ed Remote Sensing Nived Nandakumar, Age: 17 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Virginia Project Title: A Closed-Loop Deep Gen- erative Model for the Inverse Design of Radiation-Resistant Polymers Sharanya Sanjay Natarajan, Age: 18 Edgewood Junior/Senior High School, Florida Project Title: An Integrated Detection and Delivery SystemTo Abate Contaminants inWater Bodies Paarth Nawani, Age: 18 Cupertino High School, California Project Title: A Low-Cost Non-Mydratic Retinal Imaging SystemWith a Multistage Deep Learning Pipeline for Automated Screening of Glaucoma Sritej Sai Padmanabhan, Age: 17 North Allegheny Senior High School, Pennsylvania Project Title: Linking Goals to Learning: A Novel Goal-Inclusive Kalman Filter Framework Reveals That Goal Uncertainty Attenuates Sensorimotor Adaptation Suhani Pahuja, Age: 17 Monta Vista High School, California Project Title: Long-Term Cardiovascu- lar and Mortality Risk in PatientsWith Preexisting Arrhythmia Post SARS-CoV-2 Infection Aarthi M. Palaniappan, Age: 17 Herricks High School, NewYork Project Title: Elucidating the Protective Role ofWnt4 Signaling and Gene Suppres- sion in Modulating Fibrotic and Calcific Pathways in Calcific Aortic Valve Disease Medha Pappula, Age: 17 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Virginia Project Title: Identifying Underlying Brain Connections in Pediatric ADHD: A Pathway to Early Diagnosis and Reduced Secondary Effects Kaya Parikh, Age: 17 Hunter College High School, NewYork Project Title: Ozempic® and Counterfeit Ozempic in Novel Triple-Readout Dro- sophila Model With Type-2 Diabetes and Obesity Siddharth Pasari, Age: 17 Hunter College High School, NewYork Project Title: Development of N-glycan Microarrays as Sensors for Glycan Binders Arnav Pemmaraju, Age: 18 William A. Shine Great Neck South High School, NewYork Project Title: CRE-LogicSim: A Surrogate Modeling Framework for Interpreting Cis-Regulatory Element Function in Deep Sequence Models Aashritha Penumudi, Age: 17 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Virginia Project Title: A Novel Approach to Under- standing the Structural Basis of Ribosome Stalling by AMD1 and Cellular Arresting Peptides Karthik Prasad, Age: 18 Illinois Math and Science Academy, Il- linois Project Title: On Yetter-Drinfeld Modules Over the Pansera Algebras Vallabh Ramesh, Age: 18 duPont Manual Magnet High School, Kentucky Project Title: Next-Gen Smart Materials: Thermo-Responsive and Conductive 3D Printable Polymer Gels for Diverse Ap- plications Akshat Santhana Gopalan, Age: 18 John P. Stevens High School, New Jersey Project Title: TARGen: Novel Target-Aware Deep-Generative Framework for De Novo Therapeutic Antibody Design Develops Antibodies Targeting the Dark Kinome Moitri Santra, Age: 16 Oviedo High School, Florida Project Title: Development of an Industri- ally Viable Neutral pH Oxytetracycline Nanocarrier for Citrus and Stone Fruit Disease Management Samuel Siddhartha Sastry, Age: 18 The College Preparatory School, Califor- nia Project Title: Folding and Reconfiguration of DNA Origami Book Structures Aditya Sengupta, Age: 17 Bellevue High School, Washington Project Title: ForeCAT: Advancing Clear Air Turbulence Prediction for Aviation Safety With Atmospheric Physics-Informed Neu- ral Networks and Spatiotemporal Weather Data Ananya Shah, Age: 17 Edgemont High School, NewYork Project Title: A Comparison of Precinct and District Voting Data Using Persistent Homology To Identify Gerrymandering in North Carolina Ashka Shah, Age: 17 Jericho Senior High School, NewYork Project Title: Selective Dual Inhibition of -Catenin inWnt-Driven Cancers via Gid8- Assisted Translocation and a Precision Peptide-Based Gene Therapy Nikhil Shah, Age: 18 Syosset High School, NewYork Project Title: Examining the Impact of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines on Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing Aditya Shivakumar, Age: 18 The Harker School, California Project Title: Ultra Low-Cost, Field-De- ployable Arsenic(V) Detection and Adap- tive Hotspot MappingWith Methylene Blue-Gold Nanoparticle Colorimetry and Smartphone Spectroscopy Rohan Shivakumar, Age: 17 Viewpoint School, California Project Title: A Novel Early-Warning Signal ofWildfire Spread Using Vegetation Stress at the Edge of Fire Fronts Shawnak Shivakumar, Age: 17 Menlo Atherton High School, California Project Title: Drugging the Undruggable: AI-Enabled Discovery of a Novel Cryptic Pocket and Inhibitors in Oncogenic eIF4E Elizabeth Lilian Singh, Age: 17 Westlake High School, NewYork Project Title: A Novel Epigenetic Pathway to Reversing Pulmonary Arterial Hyper- tension? Investigating the Regulating Role of UHRF1 in Smooth Muscle Cells Ruhaan Singh, Age: 17 Farragut High School, Tennessee Project Title: Utilizing a Temporal Se- quence Transformer To Effectively Fore- cast Streamflow Across Diverse Hydrocli- matic Regions in the United States Indira Rajyalakshmi Sivaraj, Age: 16 Elk River Area Senior High School, Min- nesota Project Title: Uncovering Atomic-Level In- sights in Metabolic Drug-Target Receptors Using Interpretable Machine Learning Dhruvika M. Solanki, Age: 17 Morgantown High School, West Virginia Project Title: Theory-Trained Neural Networks for Robust Arrhythmia Classifi- cation Siddharth Sridharan, Age: 18 Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas Project Title: The Neurobiology of Volun- tary Exercise: A Novel Approach To Allevi- ate Chemobrain by Promoting Hippocam- pal Neurogenesis Kaavya Tatavarty, Age: 17 Henry M. Gunn High School, California Project Title: Personalized Cloud-Based Semg-to-Haptic SystemTo Enable Long Distance Communication for Usher Syndrome Sam Tummala, Age: 17 Chantilly High School, Virginia Project Title: FromWaste toWorth: Trans- forming Resistant Starches FromWaste Rice Into a Single-Use Plastic Alternative and Controlled-Release Organic Fertilizer Atharva Tyagi, Age: 18 Woodbridge Academy Magnet School, New Jersey Project Title: FromMutation to Cure: A Prime Editing Approach to Universal Genetic Rescue in Familial Hypercholes- terolemia Aadhi Umamageswaran, Age: 17 West High School, Utah Project Title: Visualizing Animal Vocaliza- tions for Species Identification. - Continued From Page 5