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ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences
Due to population growth, demand for crop yields is rising, leading to greater use of environmentally harmful chemical fertilizers. Stressors (e.g., water, salinity stress) complicate this i…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The development of next-generation autonomous devices capable of self-powering through ambient energy harvesting has increasingly focused on piezoelectric nanoparticle-based nanogenerators,…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Understanding complex brain aneurysm geometry through detailed modeling for aneurysm behavior comprehension facilitates the prevention of focal dilation rupture in cerebral vasculature linke…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Modern web vulnerability scanners often generate high noise, miss Application Programming Interface (API) and dynamic application paths, or fail under defensive controls. We developed V-8 Sc…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Rare flavour-changing neutral current decays such as a B->Kmu+mu- are a sensitive probe of beyond Standard Model (SM) Physics. The angular observable P5' has exhibited a persistent deviation…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
A planet is a celestial body that orbits a star. Thousands of exoplanets (planets outside of our solar system) have been discovered to date, with many additional candidates identified by mis…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Approximately 2.7 billion tons of red mud waste from the aluminum industry are stockpiled worldwide, and nearly 1.5 million tons of glass-fiber waste are generated annually. In alignment wit…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
When transit exoplanets pass in front of their parent stars, they produce periodic but faint dips in the star's light curve. To schedule follow-up observations with ground-based telescopes a…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
With approximately 4.4 billion people worldwide lacking access to safe water, sustainable purification technologies that operate efficiently under natural sunlight are necessary. Industrial…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
The tennis serve is the only stroke that the athlete has full control over and is strongly associated with competitive performance. At the highest level, serve quality directly shapes point…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Living alone should not mean dying alone, yet loneliness and unattended deaths continue to rise as global isolation increases; research shows a 32% increase in mortality among solitary indiv…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Central vision loss affects over 200 million worldwide, arising from macular diseases that result in central scotomas while peripheral vision remains largely intact. Current compensatory app…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the fastest-growing neurological disorders worldwide, yet objective tools for monitoring speech and gait decline outside specialist clinics remain limited,…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
Human-pathogenic Vibrio, particularly Vibrio vulnificus, in Gulf oysters pose increasing public health risks as coastal waters warm. Although temperature–Vibrio relationships are known, stra…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
In Iraq, reliance on fossil fuels and improper waste disposal methods led to Iraq having an AQI of between 65-90, and studies in local universities stated that if nothing changes in the futu…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
The rapid increase in agricultural production produces waste that is subject to discarding, burning, and burying, causing severe environmental harm. However, a variety of eco-friendly method…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences
This study investigated the water absorption capacity of grapevines in the Bündner Herrschaft, a viticultural region in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland. It examined how soil types influen…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Understanding disease models and precision medicine require untangling the complexities of spatial-temporal gene and cell interactions. However, inferring causal relationships from spatial t…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Aquatic hypoxic “dead zones,” where dissolved oxygen levels drop to critical levels, are becoming more frequent due to pollution and climate change. These conditions threaten aquatic life, r…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts
This project uses polling datasets to create micro-projections on how voters will behave during the 2026 United States Midterm Election and the 2028 United States General Election. These pro…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor symptoms such as tremor, rigidity, and bradykinesia, as well as widespread cognitive and behaviora…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Warp drives are hypothetical solutions to Einstein's equations that might allow superluminal travel by expanding space behind a spaceship and contracting it in front. This project investigat…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
Bees are essential to global food production, pollinating roughly one-third of the foods consumed worldwide (USDA, 2023) with an economic value of $200 billion annually in the U.S. from poll…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
Understanding interactions between the spread of multiple pathogens during an epidemic is crucial to assessing the severity of infections in living communities. I created two novel Multiplex…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Metabolic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s and fatty liver disease is characterized by a paradoxical progression from mitochondrial hyperfission to pathological elongation. While lipid remodeling…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
Despite modern agriculture boasting a profound amount of environmental data, there is a lack of tools that provide direct insights into a plant's physiological state. Traditional plant monit…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
The purpose of this study was to examine whether the production of genotoxic colibactin by the probiotic Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917 (EcN) is influenced by external factors, such as…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Sensing of the Tropopause and Marine Boundary Layer (MBL) is limited by cost and operational constraints of conventional fixed monitoring systems. WindDrift is a dual-modality Lagrangian sen…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The growing need for an efficient small-scale wind energy system led to the investigation of a biomimetic combination of hammerhead shark-inspired tubercles and golf ball dimple surface roug…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis posits that highly sparse, trainable subnetworks ('winning tickets') exist within all randomly initialized neural networks. However, state-of-the-art ticket-dra…