New Hampshire Science and Engineering Exposition (NHSEE)

Behavioral Science

1^st Place: Ameya Kharade, Nashua High School South, “Breaking the Brain-Computer Interface Ceiling: Discovering a New Paradigm for Brain-Machine Communication that Enables Noninvasive Interfaces to Reach Invasive-Class Communication Speeds”

2^nd Place: Kaylee Kwak, St. Paul's School, “Topic Modeling and Graph-Based Analysis of Extreme Sentiment in Echo Chambers”

Biochemistry

1^st Place: Nathan Liu, Phillips Exeter Academy, “DUET-LNP: Accelerating Lipid Nanoparticle Optimization by Predicting Cytotoxicity and Transfection Efficacy Using Interpretable Machine Learning”

2^nd Place: Aadhavan Veerendra, Academy for Science and Design, “Leveraging Shallow Machine Learning Models for Drug-Target Interaction Prediction in the Drug Target Commons Dataset”

Biology

1^st Place: Leon Xie, Phillips Exeter Academy, “25-Hydroxycholesterol Exacerbates Tau-induced Neurodegeneration”

2^nd Place: Neil Tallamraju, Nashua High School North, “Multistressor Analysis of E. coli: Linking Environmental Stress to Growth Patterns”

Chemistry

1^st Place: John Polk IV, Bennett Russell, Hamza Labib, Lebanon High School, “Compositional Comparison of Natural and Artificial Vanilla”

Computational and Informatics Science

1^st Place: Eric Buehler, Home School, “Fitting AI in Your Pocket: Adaptive Nested Quantization for On-Device LLMs”

2^nd Place: Hannah Thomas, Nashua High School South, “Analysis of Therapeutic Response in Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Graph-based Machine Learning Methods on Spatial Transcriptomics Data”

Computer Science

1^st Place: Zihan Zhao, Kimball Union Academy, “BirdNet-AI: An Intelligent Multimodal Radar System for Large-Scale Spatiotemporal Bird Migration Analysis”

2^nd Place: Charlie Usuanlele, Salem High School, “BandLocker”

Engineering

1^st Place: Elise Buehler, Home School, “Designing Energy Efficient Spoilers Using Nature Inspired Aerodynamics”

2^nd Place: Ran Feng, St. Paul's School, “Design of a Triboelectric Nanogenerator-Based Ocean Buoy System for Sustainable Marine Energy Harvesting”

Environmental Science

1^st Place: Tina Jin, Phillips Academy Andover, “Sustainable Animal Bone Filtration for the Design of Water Treatment Devices for Resource-Limited Regions”

2^nd Place: Sarah Joudeh, Lebanon High School, “Microplastics Ingestion in C. Elegans”

Mathematics

1^st Place: Jiaxuan Dai, Phillips Exeter Academy, “AI for Cryptography: A Reinforcement‑Learning Approach to the Elliptic‑Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem”

Physics and Electronics

1^st Place: Saanvi Bramhe, Lebanon High School, “Evaluating the Efficacy of Blue Light Eyewear in Attenuating Laser Wavelengths”

2^nd Place: Ved Reddy, Phillips Exeter Academy, “Adaptive Personalized Physiotherapy”