L.A. County Students Win Major Awards and Scholarships at the 2025 Regeneron ISEF
Wed May 28 15:48:00 PDT 2025
Students from Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District and Temple City Unified School District won Grand and Special awards at the 2025 ISEF.
Seven students from this year's Los Angeles County Science and Engineering Fair won Grand Awards, Special Awards and scholarships at the 2025 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). The ISEF, held in Columbus, Ohio, from May 11-16, is the largest pre-collegiate STEM research competition, with 1700 participants from 48 states and 69 countries. Grand Awards are given to 1st - 4th place in each of the 22 categories.
Notable scholarship winners include Anish Anand, who won the Chief of Naval Research Scholarship Award for $15,000, and Leila Veronica Gheysar, who won the Long Island Presidential Scholarship for $41,000 per year for 4 years.
Congratulations to our award-winning students who proudly represented L.A. County at this year’s ISEF. See list of winners below:
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Anish Anand
Project Title: A Novel Wireless Charging System for IMDs Using 2.4GHz EM
School: Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
Awards:
- Office of Naval Research on behalf of the United States Navy and Marine Corps - The Chief of Naval Research Scholarship Award ($15,000)
- Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design - 2nd Award ($2,400)
- Patent and Trademark Office Society - 2nd Award ($500)
Neil Hu
Project Title: Pioneering Ultrafine Particle Prevention Technology in Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles – Investigating the Pressure Release Valve
School: Temple City High School
Award:
- Environmental Engineering - 2nd Award ($2,400)
Aiden Kwon
Project Title: A Novel Low-Cost Zero Mean-Flow Chamber Design and Physics-Informed Neural Network for Astrophysical and Environmental Turbulence Applications
School: Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
Award:
- Physics and Astronomy - 1st Award ($6,000)
Braden Yian
Project Title: SplitSafe: A Novel Adversarial Attack Detection and Mitigation Technique for Artificial Intelligence Image Recognition Systems
School: Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
Award:
- Systems Software - 4th Award ($500)
Henry Zhipeng Huang
Project Title: Navigating Parameter Space: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning
School: Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
Award:
- Association for Computing Machinery - 4th Award ($500)
Kaili Yiqian Tseng
Leila Veronica Gheysar
Project Title: Bombyx mori Antimicrobial Peptides: A Novel and Sustainable Catalyst for Cancer Cell Growth Inhibition and Death
School: Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
Award:
- Long Island University - Presidential Scholarship ($41,000 for 4 years) awarded to Leila
- Mary Kay, Inc. - ($750) awarded to Kaili and Leila
