2017 ISEF Winners of NSA RD Awards

And the National Security Agency Research Directorate Awards Winners are:

• 1st Place in Science of Security – Rucha Joshi - $3,000 Prize
  • Power-efficient, Delay and Spatial Error Tolerant, Dynamic 3D Network Analysis
  • From Westwood High School, Austin TX
• 2nd Place in Science of Security – Holly Jackson - $1,000 Prize
  • Unlocking History: An Algorithm to Virtually Unfold 3D Computed Tomography Scans of Unopened Historical Documents
  • from Notre Dame High School, San Jose, CA
• 2nd Place in Science of Security - Mihir Patel & Nikhil Sardana - $1,000
  • Automating Identification of Terrorist Recruitment on Social Media Platforms
  • from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, VA.
• Honorable Mention in Science of Security - Nicky Wojtania
  • Cellulose Nanocrystals for Security Applications: Embedding Non-Optical Signatures Provided by Nanoparticles into Cellulose Nanocrystal Chiral Nematic Films
  • From Plano West Senior High School, Plano TX
• Honorable Mention in Science of Security – Mary Catherine Lorio
  • Quantum Eraser with Applications to Optical Quantum Information Processing of Polarization-Encoded Qubits
  • From St. Joseph’s Academy, Baton Rouge, LA
• Honorable Mention in Science of Security – Michael Litt
  • ​MATCHLESS: A Linear Algebraic Approach to Duplicate File Identification
  • From Orange High School, Pepper Pike, OH

• 1st Place in Mathematics – Shobhita Sundaram - $1,000
  • Detection of Premalignant Pancreatic Caner via Computational Analysis of Serum Proteomic Profiles
  • From Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT
• Honorable Mention in Mathematics - Carson Cato
  • Optimizing the Search for Mersenne Primes
  • From Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts, Hot Springs, AR
• Honorable Mention in Mathematics -  Tassilo Schwarz
  • Done Defense System: Detection, Tracking, Classification and Targeting of Flight Objects in 3D and Real Time
  • From Johannes-Heidenhain-Gymnasium Traunreut, Traunreut, Bayern Germany

Further details will be posted.