8 Indian-American high school students among Intel Science Talent Search competition finalists

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WASHINGTON: Eight Indian-American high school students have been named as finalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition in the US.

In all 40 science students from across the nation have made it to the science competition for this year, which is considered to be one of the toughest and most prestigious in the US.

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The eight who have made it to the list are Anubhav Guha and Preeti Kakani from New York, Rahul Siddharth Mehta from Chicago, Ajay Saini from Massachusetts, Vishnu Sarkar and Sreyas Misra from California, Anand Srinivasan from Georgia, and Parth Thakker from North Carolina.

The students are among the 40 finalists, who would gather in Washington from March 6-12 to compete for USD 630,000 in awards with the first-place winner receiving USD 100,000 from the Intel Foundation.

These 40 finalists were narrowed down from 300 semifinalists and nearly 1,800 entrants.

Guha from Horace Greeley High School in New York made it to the prestigious list for his research on "Discovery of Rare Earth Oxide Nanoparticles as Agents for Prolonging Fluorescence Imaging in Biological and Other Systems: Fluorescence Studies from Single Molecules and Dispersions."

Kakani from Jericho Senior High School in New York was selected for her research on differential Gene Expression Prior to Eye Opening in Mouse Superior Colliculus; while Rahul Siddharth Mehta from the University of Chicago Laboratory High School in Chicago made it to final round for his research on "A New Max-Flow Algorithm for Sparse Networks".

Ajay Saini from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts was selected for his research on "Predictive Modeling of Opinion and Connectivity Dynamics in Social Networks".

Vishnu Shankar from Monta Vista High School in California was selected for his research on the "3D Structure of Human DP Prostaglandin G-protein Coupled Receptor Bound to Selective Antagonists from GEnSeMBLE Predictions".

Anand Srinivasan from Roswell High School in Georgia made it to the final list for his research "RNNScan: Eukaryotic Gene Prediction via Recurrent Neural Networks Utilising Local-Feature Extraction".

Parth Thakker from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham was selected for his research "Design, Assembly, and Optimisation of Novel ZnxSeAgy Biocompatible Quantum Dot Sensitised Solar Cells".

Sreyas Misra from the Harker School in California was given entry to the final for his research on "Design and Characterisation of a Novel Single-headed and Hand-held PET Camera Using 511 keV Photon Collimation via Compton Scatter".

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