Applied Mechanics / Structures & Mechanisms / Manufacturing
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | Tarini Neeladaran |
| Second Place | Kaleb Lee | |
| Third Place | Zahid Abdul-Qadeer | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | Second Place | Kelly Wang and Tara Pham |
| Third Place | Damacia Shang | |
| Honorable Mention | •Abhimanyu Shridhar •Sammy Thai, Lydia Lo •Rita Wilton •Julianne Kim, Joanne Chen, Stephanie Yang |
Fluids / Aerodynamics
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | Om Kamat |
| Second Place | Alex Liu | |
| Third Place | Daichi Hiraoka | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Aaron Otaguro |
| Second Place | Amish Singh | |
| Third Place | Tyler Shang-Kim | |
| Honorable Mention | •Dane Goodwin •Malia Tek |
Electricity and Electronics
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | Jason Asariah Philip Suh |
| Second Place | Katherine Hua Anshul Aravind | |
| Third Place | Andy Li Anthony Foo | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Adit Shah Hussein Hirani |
| Second Place | Rhea Sreedhar Rohan Hablani | |
| Honorable Mention | Mona Singh |
Physics / Astronomy
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | Philip Suh |
| Second Place | Anshul Aravind | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Callie Yang |
| Second Place | Zane Shaiyen | |
| SENIOR DIVISION | Third Place | Brian Kim Jacob Chen |
| Honorable Mention | Sidney Sun Darren Bui |
Mathematics and Software
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | Edward Jung Samagra Pandey Akshata Tiwari |
| Second Place | Gina Lee Jude F. Alexis Zara Hommez | |
| Third Place | Dylan Soong Sophia Dai Melody Yu Minh Trinh Jingran Yang | |
| Honorable Mention | •Ijin Yu •Steven Cao •Meghana Gunturi •Lixing Wang •Diya Shah, Ruth Simon | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | •Aaryan Mukherjee •Ananya Chakraborty, Aritra Chakraborty |
| Second Place | •Yuna Noh, Kristen Wyn •Lakshmi Chakka | |
| Third Place | Ali Idriss | |
| Honorable Mention | Alvin Chen |
Chemistry
| SENIOR DIVISION | Honorable Mention | Aria Khodai |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Alyssa Tran Salvador Chavez |
| Second Place | Matthew Pagaduan Zaid Anees Tristan Spanner | |
| Third Place | Catherine Chen Maya Shum Cayla Shvartsman | |
| Honorable Mention | Sophia Wein Olivia Guo |
Earth Science / Physical Environment
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Rachel Dorgan Atharv Ponnachana |
| Second Place | Maximus Sheng |
Environmental Science / Environmental Engineering
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | Joselyn Godinez, Destinie Tran |
| Second Place | Vaibhav Dara | |
| Third Place | Ethan Lam, Travis Luu, Jason Luu | |
| Honorable Mention | •Kassie Amosa, Krysten Rodriguez •Quinne Davis, Arisha Al Faruque •Ashley Nguyen | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Ryan Burgess Ashvik Nachem |
| Second Place | Brianna Liu Nyla Pandey Sailee Charlu | |
| Third Place | •Vy Nguyen •Lina Behravan, Eesha Murugesan, Piya Garg •Abhijith Sivaprakash | |
| Honorable Mention | •Sebastian Foster •Sriram Vaidhyanathan, Aran Moshenzadeh •Anishreddy Alluru, Akhilesh Kuppili •Karan Shingre •Sean Lin, Ethan Van •Matheo Ramirez |
Zoology
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | Lauren Van Grant Gallagher |
| Second Place | Caleb Empig | |
| Third Place | Andre Medina | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Eesha Neeladaran |
| Second Place | Sasha Lichtman | |
| Third Place | Shalani Perera | |
| Honorable Mention | Takaji Murase |
Botany
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | Winston Chan, Ryan Dam, and Hami Doan |
| Second Place | Mayra Lopez, Kelly Tran | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Maya Gandhi Azeeza Hirji Ananya Devkirti |
| Second Place | Joo Seongyeon Pritha Sankar | |
| Third Place | Olivia Song Krishna Patel | |
| Honorable Mention | Gene Yuh |
Botany Applications
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | Adela Song Ella Etchandy |
| Honorable Mention | •Jimmy Nguyen, Quan Le, Kevin Cao •Sophia Le, Sophie Nguyen •Minh Pham, Kaden Vu | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Neo Li |
| Second Place | Austen Cheng | |
| Honorable Mention | Sohsuke Asahara, Mason Lin, Alexander Shah |
Biochemistry / Molecular Biology
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | Pranav Moudgalya Sabreen Alam Annabel Tiong |
| Second Place | •Anh Tran, Khanh Duong, Jayden Chow •David Kim | |
| Third Place | Faline Le Anika Bhat Rachel Fernandez Aniyah Shen | |
| Honorable Mention | Varsha Ragu Hyowon Han | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Anika Nunes |
| Second Place | Zoe Tran Nikita Karnik | |
| Honorable Mention | Amber Lin |
Microbiology and Cell Biology
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | Arjun Ghosh |
| Second Place | Samantha Low Hailey Van | |
| Third Place | Tane Kim, Katherine Theberge-Torres | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Ryan Manesh Aiden Denny |
| Second Place | none | |
| Third Place | Theertha Hariharan Arulmozhi | |
| Honorable Mention | Amalvin Fritz |
Pharmacology / Toxicology
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | •Aja Zou •Andrea Calderon, Kimmy Nguyen, Paul Tran |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Mahima Wuppalapati |
Physiology / Medical Biology
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | Kamran Ansari Nithin Parthasarathy |
| Second Place | •Diya Sreedhar •Kavish Shah & Atharv Attri | |
| Third Place | Andy Zhu Tanya Vidhum Charline Chen | |
| Honorable Mention | Ming Qi | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Mark Menaker Trenton Reimer |
| Second Place | none | |
| Third Place | Sophia Patel | |
| Honorable Mention | Gia Patel Shriya S. Gandhi |
Behavioral Sciences
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | •Amirhosein Abarham, Aryan Inamdar, and Krish Katariya |
| Second Place | Ivy Chen | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Audrey Huang and Marissa Huang |
| Second Place | •Jeremy Lee, Carson Lv, and Kyota Tani | |
| Third Place | Braden Yian | |
| Honorable Mention | Seth Wong |
Cognitive Science
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | Medelen Nguyen and Emily Phan |
| Second Place | Elika Jafari and Elena Jafari Mari Igarashi | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Kayla Roh |
| Second Place | Luke Sun | |
| Third Place | Elysa Smith | |
| Honorable Mention | Shrey Mehta |
Biological Product Science
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | •Vidur Manikandan, Dante Luna |
| Second Place | Isabel Chang | |
| Third Place | Adrian Aubin | |
| Honorable Mention | Jumana Zakir |
Physical Product Science
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | David Woo |
| Second Place | •Tam Dinh, Tien Ngo | |
| Third Place | Trimy Ta | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | Nathan Jang Saachi Heer |
| Second Place | none | |
| Third Place | none | |
| Honorable Mention | Yunji Lee |
Energy Conversion / Alternative Energy
| SENIOR DIVISION | First Place | none |
| Second Place | Vir Padhya Shuoyan Chen | |
| Third Place | none | |
| Honorable Mention | •Orlando Leones, Christopher Cotton, and Timothy Tran | |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | First Place | William Yuan Elliott Jang |
| Second Place | Audrey Kim |
Special Awards
| American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC), Southern California Section | SENIOR DIVISION | Ming Qi Mari Igarashi Pranav Moudgalya |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | Trenton Reimer Gia Patel Anika Nunes | |
| American Chemical Society | SENIOR DIVISION | •Jayden Chow, Khanh Duong, Anh Tran |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | Catherine Chen | |
| American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics | SENIOR DIVISION | Om Kamat Haolin (Kevin) Wang |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | Aaron Otaguro Dane Goodwin | |
| California Association of Professional Scientists | SENIOR DIVISION | Ella Etchandy |
| California Water Environment Association (CWEA) | SENIOR DIVISION | Tarini Neelardan Pranav Moudgalya Marvel Hanna |
| Energy Coalition | JUNIOR DIVISION | Andrew Lei Rhea Sreedhar Sebastion Foster- Lara Lina Behravan, Eesha Murugesan, Piya Garg Akhilesh Kuppila, Anishreddy Alluru Preston W. Liu |
| Engle LABS, SCRIPPS Research Institute | JUNIOR DIVISION | Yuvraj Veneziale |
| Harald Biessmann Memorial Award | SENIOR DIVISION | Grant Gallagher Caleb Empig Lauren Van |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | Takaji Murase | |
| SENIOR DIVISION | Grant Gallagher Caleb Empig Lauren Van | |
| Los Angeles Society of Petroleum Engineers | SENIOR DIVISION | Jayden Chow Khanh Duong Anh Tran |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | Rhea Sreedhar | |
| National Water Research Institute | SENIOR DIVISION | Tarini Neelardan Felix Lin |
| OCSEF David Walkington Memorial Award | SENIOR DIVISION | Ella Etchandy |
| OCSEF Lon Isenberg Memorial Award | SENIOR DIVISION | Duy Pham |
| OCSEF Nat Lamm Memorial Award | SENIOR DIVISION | Kristin Nguyen Naomi Tran |
| Office of Naval Research | SENIOR DIVISION | Om Kamat Edward Jung |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | Aritra & Anaya Chakraborty Adit Shah Elliott Jang Atharv Ponnachana | |
| Orange County Sanitation District | SENIOR DIVISION | Felix Lin |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | •Sean Lin, Ethan Van | |
| Orange County Water District | SENIOR DIVISION | Tarini Neelardan Felix Lin |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | Zaid Anees Sriram Vaidhyanathan Neil Dedhia Aran Mohsenzadeh Ryan Burgess Nahid Mohsenzadeh Abhijith (Abhi) Sivaprakash Ramzi Idriss Sailee Charlu Alyssa Tran | |
| Professional Engineers in California Government (PECG) Orange County Section | SENIOR DIVISION | Tarini Neelardan |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | Damacia Shang Arnav Mote, Isaac Cervantes, Xavier Mendoza Kevin Lew | |
| Raytheon Asian Pacific Association | JUNIOR DIVISION | Kelly Wang Tara Pham Hussein Hirani Callie Yang Aritra Chakraborty Ananya Chakraborty |
| Sea and Sage Audubon Society | SENIOR DIVISION | Ashley Nguyen |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | Nora Siva | |
| UCI, Harold Biessmann Award | SENIOR DIVISION | Grant Gallagher Caleb Empig Lauren Van |
| JUNIOR DIVISION | Takaji Murase | |
| National Geographic Award | SENIOR DIVISION | Tarini Neeladaran |
| Regeneron Award | SENIOR DIVISION | Sabreen Alam |
Broadcom Coding With Commitment
Mark Menaker
Vy Nguyen
Broadcom Masters
| Zaid Anees Julia Beezer Ryan Burgess Ananya Chakraborty Arita Chakraborty Sailee Charlu Austen Cheng Ananya Devkirti Rachel Dorgan Maya Gandhi Rohan Hablani Saachi Heer Hussein Hirani Azeeza Hirji Elliott Jang Nathan Jang Seongyeon Joo Nikita Karnik Neo Li Brianna Liu Dante Luna Ryan Manesh Vidur Manikandan | Mark Menaker Aaryan Mukherjee Ashvik Nacham Eesha Neeladaran Yuna Noh Anika Nunes Aaron Otaguro Nyla Pandey Trenton Reimer Kayla Roh Pritha Sankar Adit Shah Zane Shaiyen Maximus Sheng Amish Singh Mona Singh Katelyn Smith Alyssa Tran Mahima Wuppalapati Kristen Wyn Callie Yang William Yuan |
ISEF Finalists
| Student Name | Project Name |
| Annabel Tiong | Characterizing HBV Particles Propagated by 5 Different Host Methods |
| Diya Sreedhar | Using ResNet50 to Predict KPS and Survival Time of Glioblastoma Patients |
| Edward Jung | Exploring the Effects of Supervised Contrastive Learning on Alzheimer’s Disease Classification |
| Grant Gallagher | Robotic Microinjection of Embryos for Producing Transgenic Mosquitoes |
| Lauren Van | Uncovering the Origin and Evolution of the Firefly Bioluminescence Storage Protein |
| Pranav Moudgalya | Evaluating the Carbon Degradation Potential of Marine Plasmids |
| Tarini Neeladaran | The Design and Creation of a Solar Powered Trail Water System |
| Zara Hommez | COVID-19 Mortality Drivers in Brazil |
| Alternate | |
| Kamran Ansari | Evaluating the Efficacy of a Novel Low-Intensity Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Device in Decreasing Perceived Stress and Pain Sensation via the Modulation of Neuronal Functional Connectivity |