23 of the 81 Systems Software and Computer Science projects at ISEF 2026 won a Grand Award. Here's every one, with its abstract.
ISEF · 2026
Software Design First Award
In the U.S., about 1 in 14 children has a communication disorder, and 1 in 4 children with speech disorders also experience social and emotional difficulties, making them twice as likely to…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts First Award
Over 1 Billion people globally live with mental health conditions driving depression & suicide crises. Music therapy is a proven nonpharmacological approach for emotional regulation, yet acc…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design First Award
MANTIS is the first entirely computerized muon-based subsurface imaging system. Its goal is to deliver a fully non-invasive and remote method for underground imaging that eliminates the need…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts Second Award
This experiment aimed to create an Artificial Intelligence (AI) method that rates /s/ pronunciations comparable to a speech therapist, and more accurate than adults untrained in speech thera…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Second Award
Passwords are failing. Stolen credentials are now responsible for over 88% of online attacks, and systems are unable to detect when an attacker bypasses a login screen or accesses an unatten…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Second Award
Gaze keyboards require people with ALS to spell words one letter at a time, a process that is slow, exhausting, and forces users to translate simple thoughts into tedious typing sequences. E…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Second Award
This project addressed a critical gap in adolescent mental health support by expanding TheraBee, an artificial intelligence-powered screening and support-routing application for teenagers. T…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Third Award
Delay Differential Equations (DDEs) are a more realistic and powerful version of regular Differential Equations, and are extremely common in anatomy, chemistry, ecology, and climate research…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Third Award
Middle ear disorders are common but hard to diagnose without structural imaging. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) offers an accessible alternative to CT, yet it produces noisy and partial…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Third Award
Deepfake videos are increasingly convincing, yet current detectors show a frustrating gap between lab performance (over 90% accuracy) and real-world results (50–60% AUC) with latencies too s…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts Third Award
Most smart glasses today are prohibitively expensive and closed source, making them difficult to integrate into custom projects. My vision is to make the beauty of AR more available worldwid…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts Third Award
While technology has revolutionised music education, visually impaired musicians remain marginalised due to the visual-centric design of existing practice platforms. To restore artistic inde…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Third Award
Soil degradation affects over 1.7 billion people globally, yet long-term prediction of soil evolution remains fundamentally challenging because soil emerges from complex interactions among c…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Third Award
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
Software Design Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to create and evaluate a heuristic algorithm for the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP), a fundamental challenge underlying lattice-based post-quantum cryptography…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Fourth Award
Multi-agent AI systems are increasingly prevalent in various fields ranging from autonomous drone systems to healthcare assistant robots. Achieving success in complex environments requires e…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts Fourth Award
Communication barriers significantly affect those who are deaf, hard of hearing, speech impaired and/or mute. Limiting access to education, healthcare, employment, and everyday social intera…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Fourth Award
As hyper-realistic deepfakes grow into one of the world’s most pressing crises, the rush to secure digital integrity has made watermarking one of the most urgently researched sectors in cybe…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Fourth Award
This project advances audio augmentation in augmented reality (AR) by developing a music-theoretic spatial sonification method. Although AR is increasingly used in education and entertainmen…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Fourth Award
Severe Speech and Motor Impairment (SSMI), including conditions like advanced-stage ALS, progressively traps individuals in their bodies. This loss of muscle control and communication abilit…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts Fourth Award
Kintsugi is a traditional Japanese restoration technique for repairing broken objects, making them more beautiful and cherished over time. Rather than hiding damage, kintsugi highlights repa…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Fourth Award
Electromyographic (EMG) signals carry neural control information and are widely utilized in neural-machine interfaces (NMIs) for applications such as prosthetic control and virtual reality.…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Fourth Award
Severe motor disabilities create a critical interaction gap, yet existing Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) suffer from signal instability, environmental sensitivity, and reliance on invasive…