Recognition
Recognition, to me, isn’t just about awards — it’s about the moments where a project resonated with someone else: a teacher, a researcher, a community.
These milestones mark where ideas from AI4Science connected with the wider world — in sustainability, education, and innovation.
2025
Best Paper Award - IEEE AI for Sustainable Innovation.
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Semi - Finalist Ellison Scholars (finals still pending).
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US Patent - CO2 Sensei.
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Regional Winner — NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing
Recognized for technical leadership and outreach in computing and AI education.
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Finalist - Harvard THURJ (top 12 out of hundreds)
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3rd Place — Chemistry, Northern California Junior Science & Humanities Symposium
Awarded for the Textile Pollution Mitigation research on sustainable AI for material reuse.
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Honorable Mention, Synopsys Science Fair - Chemistry.
2024
National Finalist - Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. One of 5 selected as part of the California Northern Delegation.
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2nd Place — Environmental Science, Northern California JSHS (Qualified for Nationals)
Worldwide Finalist — Conrad Challenge. Recognized for AI innovation in applied science solutions.
Presidential Volunteer Gold Service Award. Awarded for building the RAFT Educational Chatbot, focusing on safe AI use in classrooms.
Worldwide Bronze — Climate Science Olympiad (Ranked 32 of 37,500 competitors)
Global recognition for work connecting data science to climate sustainability.
Be More Grant Finalist — NSHSS. $1,000 grant awarded to Thrive Sri Lanka, supporting 5,000 additional student meals.
Regional Winner — NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing.​​
2023
First Place — Data Science for Everyone Lesson Plan Challenge
Winning curriculum (The Hamster Show) now used globally to teach data science in schools.
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First Place — Cloudera International Machine Learning Hackathon
Developed winning prototype for applied ML on sustainability datasets.
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Semi-Finalist — Climate Science Olympiad
Recognized for forecasting models on environmental data.
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2022-2021
Grand Prize — Technovation Challenge (Junior Division)
Developed Calmzilla, an AI app to help middle school students manage stress.
National Winner — ProjectCSGirls
Awarded for innovation in AI-driven health and education apps.
Special Award — Army & Navy Corps, Synopsys Science Fair
Recognized for excellence in applied research.
Honorable Mention — Congressional App Challenge
For early work in educational AI design.
Regional Winner — Technovation Challenge (North America)
App recognized by The Mercury News for youth innovation in wellbeing tech.
Top 10 — Girls Programming Challenge (2020, 2021)
Acknowledged for creative algorithmic problem-solving.
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