Browse 40 real Computational Sciences projects entered in 2026, with abstracts, awards and links to the original entries.
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Identifying safe landing zones accurately for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is very challenging, especially during emergency Search and Rescue (SAR) missions. The commonly used LiDAR-based a…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Calibration is essential for the operation of quantum processors. However, each calibration process requires time and effort. Thus, the goal of this research is to rethink the calibration pr…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Wildfire suppression is increasingly challenging due to the fast, unpredictable spread of fires and the limited availability of aerial resources. Coordinated drone swarms offer a promising s…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Corn pests cause hundreds of millions of dollars in annual crop losses, yet current pest management relies on broad-spectrum chemical pesticides that harm ecosystems, beneficial insects, and…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) facilitate communication among autonomous vehicles (AVs) via V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything), making these AVs susceptible to various cyberattacks, including d…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Traditional 3-axis fused-filament fabrication (FFF) is fundamentally constrained by Euclidean planar slicing, which introduces discrete staircase artifacts and fixed-bead orientations that c…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
This project presents a novel computational tongue-based interaction system designed to expand digital access for individuals with motor disabilities. The framework defines tongue interactio…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Though AI is embedded in critical infrastructure worldwide, the underlying components remain vulnerable and easily manipulated. Public repositories like Hugging Face host millions of model c…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
The goal of this project was to determine if it is possible to create a security system that uses changes in WiFi Channel State Information, collected from ESP32 sensors, to distinguish hous…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
In January 2025, severe drought conditions and strong Santa Ana winds powered a series of 14 wildfires that proved to be the most destructive in California history. These fires caused 16,000…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Adversarial attacks introduce image perturbations by manipulating input data, triggering AI image recognition models to misclassify images. These malicious attacks compromise real-world oper…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
The most common lethal forms of cancers like colorectal, lung, and breast cancers will need early detection through precise molecular characterization, forsensitivity or specificity needed f…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects over 55 million individuals globally, yet fewer than 5% of cases are diagnosed at the mild cognitive impairment stage when therapeutic intervention is most e…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
The rapid growth of generative AI music is causing unprecedented content overload and a flood of spam on streaming platforms, posing significant reputational and income risks to human artist…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Neonatal eye care faces significant challenges due to diseases like Retinopathy of Prematurity(ROP). Accurate and punctual detection of ROP is crucial for the preservation of infant eyesight…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Modern Quantum computers are highly susceptible to errors and noise, and quantum error correction is necessary for scalable and reliable computation. Current classical decoders, such as Mini…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Data is easily the most important aspect of training machine learning and deep learning models, as large amounts of high-quality data are required for these models to understand the intricac…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
From time-consuming diagnostics to inaccessible appointments, understanding personal cardiovascular health is a challenging process that has become a practical tedium for many. Because limit…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Falls are a leading cause of injury and loss of independence for mobility-impaired individuals, and many occur during routine object retrieval. Although modern assistive robots can navigate,…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
The analysis of molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories remains fragmented, requiring researchers to integrate multiple computational methods in bespoke scripts. This creates a significant barr…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
This project introduces a contrastive multi-view self-supervised framework for network intrusion detection (NID) that integrates finite-difference temporal modeling with Fourier Kolmogorov–A…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Financial markets are fast changing with time-series data, but large language models (LLMs) are trained only with a point-in-time data. The purpose of this project is to create a self-learni…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Globally, systemic diseases like cirrhosis, ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and hypertension affect over a billion people, yet their detection depends on invasive procedures or late-stage imagi…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
DNA origami design automation has advanced rapidly, but scaffold sequence is typically treated as fixed, despite emerging methods enabling custom scaffold synthesis. This project presents a…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Cybercrime threatens critical infrastructure, economic assets, and privacy, with financial loss from cybercrime continuing to increase each year. The proliferation of increasingly complex, c…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Breast cancer’s molecular complexity presents significant challenges in identifying robust and reproducible prognostic biomarkers. This study applies an integrative, pathway-level survival m…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Standard causal language model pretraining uses a single-label cross-entropy objective that ignores the existence of multiple valid next-token continuations resulting in sample inefficiency.…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Non-verbal individuals often experience difficulty communicating basic needs and emotional states. This project investigates whether physiological signals from wearable sensors could be used…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Because ransomware can disrupt life‑critical bedside telemetry and threaten pediatric patient safety, I developed and validated a lightweight, real‑time entropy‑based ransomware detection en…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Physical activity guidelines don’t have clear thresholds for people at higher cardiac risk, including patients with spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD). Patients are told to exerci…