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2024


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The Sponsored Awards are created, sponsored and judged by their dedicated sponsoring institutions, teams, foundations and organizations.


We appreciate all of our sponsors and Sponsored Award judges.




Thr CSEF Foundation would like to publicly express our special gratitude and appreciation to Bob Anderson, who for many years has been personally responsible for developing, securing and coordinating the sponsorship and judging of all our Sponsored Awards. Bob has tirelessly supported the fair as a Judge, Sponsor, Sponsored Award Coordinator, Member of the Board of Directors and founding Vice President of the new CSEF Foundation.
Thank you, Bob, for your years of dedication and service to the Fair.















Junior Division Environmental Engineering Award

Adhiban Arulselvan

GridPatrol: AI-Powered Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Wildfire Prevention

A&WMA

$250

J-13-36





Junior Division Environmental Engineering Award

Vishwanathan Vinayagam

GridPatrol: AI-Powered Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Wildfire Prevention

A&WMA

$250

J-13-36





Senior Division Environmental Science Award

Remi Morgan

Evaluating the Impact of Glycerin Concentrations on the Mechanical Resilience and Tensile Strength of Sustainable Biofabrics

A&WMA

$500

S-11-16









Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Award, Junior Division

Delainey Guenther

SKIN

ADLM

$200

J-05-05





Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Award, Senior Division

Snow Cameron

Investigating the Effects of Lutein on Retinal Cytoarchitecture in Age-related Macular Degeneration

ADLM

$200

S-05-15





Chemistry Award, Junior Division

Alyssa Mastroianni

The Fuel Force

ADLM

$200

J-06-11





Chemistry Award, Senior Division

Serina Cao

Synthesis of Small Molecule Triazine and Pyrimidine Derivatives as Potential PD-1/PD-L1 Binding Inhibitors as Antiproliferative Agents

ADLM

$200

S-06-10





Toxicology Award, Junior Division

Sarina Haque

Nutrient Overload

ADLM

$200

J-10-29





Toxicology Award, Senior Division

Annika Chatterjee

Modelling California Heat wave exposure and links to dementia like neurodegeneration in elderly

ADLM

$200

S-23-01









UCLA Brain Research Institute Award, Senior Division - 1st Place

David Backer Peral

Hot Button: A Non-Invasive Approach for Studying Emotion States in Mice

BRIUCLA

$250

S-14-04





UCLA Brain Research Institute Award, Senior Division - 2nd Place

Andrew Liang

GaitNet: Developing a Novel Video-Based System for Assessing Parkinsonian Gait Impairment Severity using a 2-Stream Spatial-Temporal Neural Network

BRIUCLA

$150

S-04-18





UCLA Brain Research Institute Award, Senior Division - 3rd Place

Cloris Shi

Decision Bias in Recognition Memory: Using Single-Neuron Recording to Study How Memory-Selective Neurons Encode Criterion Shifts

BRIUCLA

$100

S-14-10









Broadcom Coding with Commmitment Award

Omar Abdulaziz

Early Detection of Bradykinesia and Tremors in Parkinson’s Disease Using a Wearable Inertial Measurement Unit

BROADCOM

$125

J-14-09





Broadcom Coding with Commmitment Award

Anabia Ehsan

Early Detection of Bradykinesia and Tremors in Parkinson’s Disease Using a Wearable Inertial Measurement Unit

BROADCOM

$125

J-14-09









Cadence Junior Award

Lavernie Chen

Constructing A Concussion Detecting Headband that Alerts a Concussion Based On Force of Impact

CADENCE

$167

J-03-15





Cadence Junior Award

Ruhi Kelkar

Constructing A Concussion Detecting Headband that Alerts a Concussion Based On Force of Impact

CADENCE

$167

J-03-15





Cadence Junior Award

Adwita Ram

Constructing A Concussion Detecting Headband that Alerts a Concussion Based On Force of Impact

CADENCE

$166

J-03-15









Cadence Senior Award

Gauri Todur

Dim Asteroids Discovered! Rapidly Finding and Tracking Faint Near-Earth Asteroids Using an Accurate Deep Learning Based Process

CADENCE

$500

S-19-10









CSBPA Junior Division Award

Jackson Rutner

Tidal Troubles

CSBPA

$250

J-10-05





CSBPA Senior Division Award

Angelina Kim

An Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) System for Ocean Hazard Recognition and Rescue: Scout and Rescue UAV Prototypes

CSBPA

$500

S-03-21









Most Innovative Alternative Energy Project

Audrey Kim

Waste2Volt+: Enhancing a Piezoelectric Soccer Field with a Bio-Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Generator from Food Waste for an Innovative Wearable Fall/Drop Monitoring and SMS Alerts (TumbleAlert)

DIRECTOR

$200

J-02-04









Kindeva Innovative Award

Avni Agarwal

Magnetically Powered Microbots for Treatment of Calcified Arterial Plaque

KINDEVA

$200

S-12-03





Kindeva Innovative Award

Shripriya Kalbhavi

A Novel Method of Active Medication Delivery via Microneedle Arrays Using a Belousov-Zhabotinsky Oscillating Hydrogel

KINDEVA

$200

S-03-28









Lemelson Early Inventor Prize

Tina Jin

Enhancing Accessibility Through Innovative Utilization of Cow Bones: A Novel Approach for Water Filtration

LEMELSON

$100

J-10-23









Regeneron Biomedical Science Award

Julianne Wu

Sex-Related Signaling of the Angiotensin II Pathway in Primary Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells

REGEN

$375

S-05-11









Saban Family Foundation Scholar Prize, Junior Division - 1st Place

Tina Jin

Enhancing Accessibility Through Innovative Utilization of Cow Bones: A Novel Approach for Water Filtration

SABAN

$1500

J-10-23





Saban Family Foundation Scholar Prize, Junior Division - 2nd Place

Ishani Bhola

Eye-wear: An assistive navigational wearable device for Visually Impaired

SABAN

$1250

J-12-28





Saban Family Foundation Scholar Prize, Senior Division - 1st Place

Ariana Motaghiannezam

Multi-Omic Profiling IDs p63 As a Novel Genetic Determinant Driving Lung Fibrosis and Cancer, Targetable for Treatment

SABAN

$2000

S-05-20





Saban Family Foundation Scholar Prize, Senior Division - 2nd Place

Zirui (Julie) Zhu

High-Flexibility Ankle Exoskeleton for Hemiplegic Patients Integrating Assistive and Walking Rehabilitation Functionality

SABAN

$1500

S-03-10









Air Quality Award, Junior Division

Ione McLain

How Does Air Quality, Measured in AQI, PM 2.5, PM 10, HCHOs, and TVOCs, Sampled at Parks and Freeways, Relate to Home Values, Family Income, Demographics, School Rating and Performance, and Pollution Burden?

SCAQMD

$1500

J-10-10





Air Quality Award, Senior Division

Benjamin Schwartz

Forest Fire Detection: Developing a System to Accurately Identify Forest Fires Before They Spread

SCAQMD

$1500

S-13-07









Drs S & CC Kar Award

Aanya Amin

Investigating the Effects of Alcohol on Embryonic Development

SKHF

$334

S-23-04





Drs S & CC Kar Award

Cassandra Mapanao

Investigating the Effects of Alcohol on Embryonic Development

SKHF

$333

S-23-04





Drs S & CC Kar Award

Yuki Matsumura

Investigating the Effects of Alcohol on Embryonic Development

SKHF

$333

S-23-04









Southern California National BioGENEius Award 1st Place

Julianne Wu

Sex-Related Signaling of the Angiotensin II Pathway in Primary Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells

SOCALBIO

$1000

S-05-11





Southern California National BioGENEius Award 2nd Place

Katelyn Gan

A Novel Computer Vision Approach To Radial Velocity Extraction For Exoplanet Detection

SOCALBIO

$300

S-19-02





Southern California National BioGENEius Award 3rd Place

Zhehao Zhang

Effort Towards the Total Synthesis of Crotocascarin K: A Fragment Coupling Approach

SOCALBIO

$200

S-06-08





Southern California National BioGENEius Award Honorable Mention

Ruhi Samudra

Selectivity Optimization of Antimicrobial Peptides to Enhance Pathogenic Targeting

SOCALBIO

S-17-13





Southern California National BioGENEius Award Honorable Mention

Yash Malani

CANEVision: Computer Assisted Navigation Engine for the Visually Impaired

SOCALBIO

S-26-02





Southern California National BioGENEius Award Honorable Mention

Nirmit Shah

CANEVision: Computer Assisted Navigation Engine for the Visually Impaired

SOCALBIO

S-26-02





Southern California National BioGENEius Award Honorable Mention

Alan Piao

Chloro-Alumious Reagent to Recycle Lithium Iron Phosphate from Used Lithium-Ion Batteries

SOCALBIO

S-06-14









Math Teachers Award for Achievement in Mathematical Sciences, Junior Division

Sophie Tong

Investigating the Visual Information Degradation in Adverse Weather

TEACHER

$1000

J-16-17





Math Teachers Award for Achievement in Mathematical Sciences, Senior Division

Riya Mehrotra

How Square is a Square?

TEACHER

$1000

S-16-04





Math Teachers Award for Achievement in Computational Systems and Analysis, Senior Division

Carter Capetz

Tensorized Physics-Informed Neural Network for Solving Nonlinear PDEs

TEACHER

$1000

S-08-34













Congratulations to all our winners and participants!












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