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2022 ISEF Winners

In 2022, ISEF awarded $31,000 to nineteen projects led by 21 students who qualified for ISEF at TXSEF. Congratulations to all the award winners!

First Award Winners ($5,000)

  • Microbiology – Computational Analysis of the Cystic Fibrosis Lung Microbiome and Development of a Non-Toxic Quorum Quenching Cocktail Therapy To Inhibit Multispecies Biofilm Proliferation
  • Behavioral and Social Sciences – iPonder: A Multimodal and Anonymous Approach to Remote Teen Mental Health Diagnosis and Peer-Based Conversational Therapy via Deep Transfer Learning and Computer Vision

  • Materials Science – Programmable Matter: A Microscale, Self-Reconfigurable, Modular Robotic Metamaterial

Second Award Winners ($2,000)

  • Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design – Redesigning Surface Conduction Manifolds To Improve the Efficiency and Reliability of Solar Cells

  • Computational Biology and Bioinformatics – Experimental Characterization of Inhibitors of the MSUT-2 Protein for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases (Year 2)

  • Cellular and Molecular Biology – The Mechanism of Methylmercury Permeation Through the Blood-Brain Barrier Using C. elegans

  • Behavioral and Social Sciences – SuiSensor: A Novel, Low-Cost Machine Learning System for Real-Time Suicide Risk Identification and Treatment Optimization via Computational Linguistics

  • Systems Software – A Home Automation System for Neuromuscular Disorder Patients Using Brain-Computer Interface

Third Award Winners ($1,000)

  • Biochemistry – An Integrative Approach of Utilizing Antipsychotic Supplements Designated for Schizophrenia and Endogenous Firing Rate Differential Equation Models To Induce Neuronal Synaptic Activity in PINK-1 Gene Mutated C. elegans With Parkinson’s Disease

  • Biomedical and Health Sciences – Reusable Screening Method for Malaria Infections From Thin Blood Smear Images Using Convolutional Neural Network

  • Embedded Systems – Intelligent Vision System for the Visually Impaired

  • Environmental Engineering – Low-Cost Electrochemical Arsenic Detection (LEAD): A Novel Quantitative, Portable and Ultra-Sensitive Arsenic Sensor Using Pencil Lead

  • Embedded Systems – Finding Perfect Watermelons: Non-Destructive Ripeness Detection via Photoacoustics – A Pilot Study

Fourth Award Winners ($500)

  • Plant Sciences – Computational Analysis of the Rhizosphere Metagenome and a Wet Lab Approach To Derive an Optimal Strategy for Heavy Metal Remediation in situ

  • Microbiology – Determining If Bacterial Genera Found in Natural Bat Roosts Are Known Fungal Inhibitors of Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) (Y7)

  • Computational Biology and Bioinformatics – Decoding Genetics of Aging: A Neural Network Interpretation on Age-Associated Biomarker Data and Diseases

  • Biomedical Engineering – Wearable Electrochemical Sweat Sensor for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD): Year III

  • Embedded Systems – Optimizing Micro-Computer Architecture in the Arithmetic Logic Unit

  • Materials Science – Three-Dimensional Hierarchical Porous Electrode Structure for Improved Performance in Battery Applications

Special Awards

  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Award Winners
    Chemistry – Engineering an Inexpensive and Sustainable Cellulose Battery Cell

    Systems Software – A Home Automation System for Neuromuscular Disorder Patients Using Brain-Computer Interface

  • Certificate of Honorable Mention, a 1-year free student membership to the INCOSE, and free virtual admission to the 2022 International Symposium of the INCOSE Award Winner
    Biomedical Engineering – Smart Leukemia Labs: A Low-Cost Microscope and Diagnostic Tool That Use Semantic Segmentation, Image Processing and Object Detection To Detect Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

  • Drexel University – Full Tuition Scholarship Award Winners
    Earth and Environmental Sciences – A Novel Method for Automated Identification and Prediction of Invasive Species Growth Using Deep Learning

    Biomedical Engineering – Smart Leukemia Labs: A Low-Cost Microscope and Diagnostic Tool That Use Semantic Segmentation, Image Processing and Object Detection To Detect Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

  • Full Scholarship from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) Award Winner
    Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design – Redesigning Surface Conduction Manifolds To Improve the Efficiency and Reliability of Solar Cells

  • Honorable Mention
    Earth and Environmental Sciences – A Novel Method for Automated Identification and Prediction of Invasive Species Growth Using Deep Learning

    Earth and Environmental Sciences – Replicability of Light Pollution Effects on Timing of Butterfly Metamorphosis

  • IEEE Foundation – 2nd Place Award Winner
    Systems Software – A Home Automation System for Neuromuscular Disorder Patients Using Brain-Computer Interface

  • IEEE Foundation – 3rd Place Award Winner
    Biomedical Engineering – Smart Leukemia Labs: A Low-Cost Microscope and Diagnostic Tool That Use Semantic Segmentation, Image Processing and Object Detection To Detect Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

  • Mu Alpha Theta, National High School, and Two-Year College Mathematics Honor Society 2nd Place Award Winner
    Mathematics -Random Forest To Predict Dengue Cases and Outbreaks

  • National Security Agency Research Directorate -1st Place Award Winner (Principles of Security and Privacy)
    Robotics and Intelligent Machines – Adaptive Learning: Evolving Explainable Predictions

  • National Security Agency Research Directorate -3rd Place Award Winner (Principles of Security and Privacy)
    Mathematics – Fast and Furious: Designing an Ultra-Efficient Hybrid Matrix Multiplication Algorithm

  • Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society – 3rd Place Physical Science Award Winners
    Environmental Engineering – Termite Biomimicry for Affordable, Eco-Friendly Homes

  • Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society 3rd Place Life Science Award Winners
    Biomedical Engineering – Using AI To Detect Morphological Abnormalities of Leukocytes To Diagnose Leukemia

  • The Chief of Naval Research Scholarship Award Winner
    Computational Biology and Bioinformatics – Novel-DTI: A Machine Learning Pipeline To Predict Drug-Target Interactions for Large-Scale Drug Repurposing and Drug Discovery Using Multiplex, Heterogeneous Networks

  • USAID Science for Development First place Award Winner – (Agriculture and Food Security)
    Earth and Environmental Sciences – A Novel Method for Automated Identification and Prediction of Invasive Species Growth Using Deep Learning

  • YM American Academy – 3rd place Award Winner
    Chemistry – Breaking Chemical Bonds by Force: A Computational Investigation of Metal-C-H Interaction Under High Pressure