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International Student Research & Innovation Fair (2026)
Life & Health Sciences
| First Prize |
| Using In Vitro Models to Evaluate Bacterial Consortia for Akkermansia muciniphila Suppression |
| Asher Rexing, Aqsa Mohammed, Altai Enkhbayar, Lauren McDaniel, Emma Kuntz, Robert Jenq |
| Second Prize |
| Measuring Parent Understanding of Childhood Myopia: Development of a 12-Point Knowledge-Recognition Score |
| Camden Niknam |
| Synthetic Biology Application of SUMOylation Cascade in E. coli and FRET-based Interactions with Influenza A Virus |
| My Linh Le, Peirong (Joy) Yu, Jacob Chen, Lucas He, Chuchu Liu, and Dr. Jiayu Liao |
| Caffeine Consumption and Self-Reported Work Efficiency Among Secondary-School Educators |
| Hyeonji Yoo |
Engineering, Computer Science & AI and Data related Sciences
| First Prize |
| SkyAware: Measuring the Arithmetic, the Judgement and the Latency of an AI Flight-Weather Assistant |
| Weizhao (Andy) Chen |
| Second Prize |
| SCCS: A Calibrated, Real-Time Simulator for Solar-Electric Vehicle Energy Balance |
| Weiyue Yan |
| Seeing Through the Dark: Image Enhancement for YOLOv8 Nighttime Pothole Detection |
| William Liu, Derek Hu, Rafael Trinidad |
| From Cracks to Craters: A Computer Vision Pipeline for Forecasting Pavement Degradation |
| Derek Hu, William Liu, Rafael Trinidad |
Physical Sciences & Environment
| First Prize |
| Investigating the Impact of Infill Density |
| Ian Ching, Jamie Yuan |
| Second Prize |
| Does ZEV Adoption Improve Regional Air Quality? Evidence from LA County (2010–2025) |
| Yinuo Jiang, Kaixi Chen |
| How Layer Thickness Affects Tensile Strength in 3D-Printed Parts |
| Storm Frey, Qiyuan Gao |
