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Texas Junior Academy of Science

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Texas Junior Academy of Science (TJAS) Past Results

TJAS Award Winners

The students below are winners of previous TJAS competitions. Each of these students received a cash prize and an invitation to represent Texas and present their research at the annual American Junior Academy of Science (AJAS) Conference in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Congratulations to these outstanding students!

2025 Top 6 Winners
Left to right: Piyush Mallick, Harmon Hong, Vijay Shivnani, Vaani Chellamuthu, Ana Spiride, Srikar Karri
1st Place - Natural Division

Vijay Shivnani, 11th grade

Plano West Senior High School

1st Place - Physical Division

Vaani Chellamuthu, 12th grade

Plano East Senior High School

2nd Place - Natural Division

Harmon Hong, 9th grade

Fort Worth Country Day School

2nd Place - Physical Division

Ana Spiride, 11th grade

Plano East Senior High School

3rd Place - Natural Division

Piyush Mallick, 12th grade

Grapevine High School

3rd Place - Physical Division

Srikar Karri, 9th grade

Bridgeland High School

2025 Division Winners
1st Place - Natural Division, Vijay Shivnani; Project Title: Characterizing Chlamydial Cytotoxins as Inflammatory Modulators: C. muridarum & C. trachomatis Putative Glycosyltransferase Activity & NF-κB Regulation
1st Place - Physical Division, Vaani Chellamuthu; Project Title: Diagnosing Progressive Supranuclear Palsy using the Hummingbird Sign and Parkinsonism Index in Deep Learning
2nd Place - Natural Division, Harmon Hong; Project Title: Virtual Pathology Lab( VirtualPaL): A Novel Application for Invasive Ductal Carcinoma(IDC) Segmentation and Classification in Whole Slide Imaging (WSI)
2nd Place - Physical Division, Ana Spiride; Project Title: HandTalk: A Translation System for American Sign Language
3rd Place - Natural Division, Piyush Mallick; Project Title: Adaptive seqNMF for Analysis of Zebra Finch HVC Neuronal Activity: Implications for the Central Pattern Generator Hypothesis
3rd Place - Physical Division, Srikar Karri; Project Title: OncoGAT: A Novel Multimodal Graph Attention Network for Precision Oncology
2024 Top 6 Winners
Left to right: Jessica Zhang, Arnav Bhute, Rohan Singhal, Arya Gurumukhi, Siri Peddinti, Ryan Xu
1st Place - Natural Division

Siri Peddinti, 12th grade

Plano East Senior High School

1st Place - Physical Division

Ryan Xu, 11th grade

Plano West Senior High School

2nd Place - Natural Division

Rohan Singhal, 12th grade

Colleyville Heritage High School

2nd Place - Physical Division

Arya Gurumukhi, 11th grade

Plano East Senior High School

3rd Place - Natural Division

Jessica Zhang, 10th grade

Jasper High School

3rd Place - Physical Division

Arnav Bhute, 11th grade

Prosper High School

2024 Division Winners
1st Place - Natural Division, Siri Peddinti; Project Title: A Deep Learning Approach to Detecting Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Tracking Treatment Efficacy via Vocal Acoustic Inflections and Sentiment Analysis
1st Place - Physical Division, Ryan Xu; Project Title: GIVS: A Novel, Generative Artificial Intelligence Vision System for the Visually Impaired
2nd Place - Natural Division, Rohan Singhal; Project Title: Citrate Synthase is Required for the Initiation of PTEN-Deficient T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemogenesis, but not PTEN-Deficient Myeloproliferative
2nd Place - Physical Division, Arya Gurumukhi; Project Title: The Bionic Leaf: Developing a Novel Catalyst to Use with the Bacterium Ralstonia eutropha for Artificial Photosynthetic Systems
3rd Place - Natural Division, Jessica Zhang; Project Title: Optimizing Enzyme Thermostability: Plastisphere Enriched Genes for Plastic Degradation
3rd Place - Physical Division, Arnav Bhute; Project Title: Gli-Ode: Encoder-Decoder System with Neural ODEs for Dynamic GBM Growth Forecasting from S
2023 Top 6 Winners
Left to right: Prisha Bhat, Shreyas Sailesh, Satvika Nadella, Anirudh Mazumder, Vaishnavi Moturi, Sarang Goel
1st Place - Natural Division

Vaishnavi Moturi, 11th grade

Centennial High School

1st Place - Physical Division

Sarang Goel, 12th grade

Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science

2nd Place - Natural Division

Satvika Nadella, 11th grade

Allen High School

2nd Place - Physical Division

Anirudh Mazumder, 11th grade

Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science

3rd Place - Natural Division

Prisha Bhat, 11th grade

Plano East Senior High School

3rd Place - Physical Division

Shreyas Sailesh, 12th grade

Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science

2023 Division Winners
1st Place - Natural Division, Vaishnavi Moturi; Project Title: GlioGuide: A Multi-Stage, Deep Learning Platform for Therapy Response Prediction in De Novo Glioblastoma via Computational Modelling of Tumor Heterogeneity
1st Place - Physical Division, Sarang Goel; Project Title: IVY: An Intelligent Vision System for the Visually Impaired
2nd Place - Natural Division, Satvika Nadella; Project Title: Year 2: A Novel Heavy Metal and Bacterial Water Filtration System Using M. oleifera and Coconut Shell-Activated Carbon
2nd Place - Physical Division, Anirudh Mazumder; Project Title: Reinforcement Learning based Kinematic Controller and a Proportional Integrative Derivative based Dynamic Controller for Soft Robots
3rd Place - Natural Division, Prisha Bhat; Project Title: Aqua-Arsenic Remediation Analysis of the Oryza sativa metagenome and Wet-Lab Approach to Increase O. sativa Tolerance to Drought and Arsenic through Hyperexpression of Aquaporin genes OsNIP2;1, OsNIP3;2 and OsPIP2;2 (Year IV)
3rd Place - Physical Division, Shreyas Sailesh; Project Title: Non-Addictive Opioid Delivery via Metal-Organic Frameworks
2022 Top 10 Finalists
L to R: Amitha Mandava, Kyler Larsen, Diya Shah, Madhalasa Iyer, Arya Gurumukhi, Shobhit Agarwal, Kevin Sun, Shreya Nair, Pranav Gorty, Otto Beall
1st Place - Natural Division

Kyler Larsen, 12th grade

A&M Consolidated High School

1st Place - Physical Division

Otto Beall, 12th grade

Plano East Senior High School

2nd Place - Natural Division

Shreya Nair, 12th grade

Texas Academy of Math & Science

2nd Place - Physical Division

Shobhit Agarwal, 11th grade

Reedy High School

3rd Place - Natural Division

Pranav Gorty, 10th grade

IB World School

3rd Place - Physical Division

Amitha Mandava, 11th grade

Plano East Senior High School

2022 Division Winners
1st Place - Natural Division, Kyler Larsen; Project Title: A Deep Learning Approach Using Masked Image Modeling for Reconstruction of Undersampled K-spaces
1st Place - Physical Division, Otto Beall; Project Title: Optimizing Solar Cell Metal Surface Geometries for Power Efficiency
2nd Place - Natural Division, Shreya Nair; Project Title: Identification and Characterization of Genes Functioning with HR4, a Newly Identified Gene Conferring Resistance to the Green Peach Aphid
2nd Place - Physical Division, Shobhit Agarwal; Project Title: OmniDoc: A Multimodal Quantum Machine Learning Approach to Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment Prediction for Neurodegenerative and Cancerous Diseases
3rd Place - Natural Division, Pranav Gorty; Project Title: Finding a Novel Prerequisite for Homology-Directed Prognosis by Using Molecular Docking to Target RAD51 Function within Cancer Cells
3rd Place - Physical Division, Amitha Mandava; Project Title: Traffic Counting System Using Machine Vision
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