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AzSEF Alumni Network

The AzSEF Alumni Network celebrates outstanding student researchers from across Arizona who have earned first-place awards in the senior division or represented Arizona as ISEF finalists. This community connects alumni, highlights their achievements, and inspires the next generation of scientists and engineers.

Are you a past AzSEF senior division first-place winner or ISEF finalist? Join the AzSEF Alumni Network to stay connected, be featured on our website, and receive updates on opportunities.

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2025 Alumni

Aarna Patel 

Environmental Engineering 
ISEF Finalist
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Bast Fiber and Novel Hydrogel Integration for Sustainable Postpartum Care

Aditya Lakshminarasimhan
Computational Biology & Bioinformatics 
ISEF Finalist
ISEF Award Winner: Second Place in Category
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Modeling Bird Flu Mutation Patterns and Cross-Species Transmission Using Sequence Analysis and a Novel Contrastive Learning and Influence-tree Graph Attention Network (CLIGAT)

Aditya Malge 

Energy: Sustainable Materials & Design
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Hydrogenated Vanadium Oxide: A Novel Electrocatalyst for Zinc-Air Batteries

Akshay Karthik 
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
ISEF Finalist 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

THETA: Triangulated Hand Estimation for Teleoperation and Automation

Alexander Rahman 

Biomedical and Health Sciences 
ISEF Finalist 
AzSEF Second Place Winner in Category 

Affordable Nanoparticle Diagnostic Device For Fast And Accurate Detection O

Iraj Shroff 

Chemistry 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

PFAS Degradation in Water using a Membrane-based Catalytic Approach

Kinsely Torres 

Systems Software
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Harvest Hero: An Innovative, Eco-Friendly Approach to AI Agriculture

Nishita Karikatti
Cellular and Molecular Biology 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Investigating Ctr2 Role during acute latent stages of Toxoplasma Gondii

Shireen Arora 

Animal Sciences
ISEF Finalist 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

W. Somnifera's Neuroprotective Effects on AD: A D. melanogaster Model

Srihan Kondle
Energy: Sustainable Materials & Design
ISEF Finalist 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Hydrogenated Vanadium Oxide: A Novel Electrocatalyst for Zinc-Air Batteries

 

Venkat Yarlagadda
Plant Sciences 
ISEF Finalist 
ISEF Winner: Third Place in Category 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Photogene Fusion: Genetic Enhancement of Photosynthesis for Carbon Capture

 

Yuvan Senthil 

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
ISEF Finalist 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

D.I.C.E - Dynamic Interlocking Cube-Drones Engineered with IR Tracking


2024 Alumni

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

ISEF Finalist
ISEF Award Winner: Second Place in Category
ISEF Special Award Winner: University of Texas-Dallas Scholarship and University of Arizona Scholarship 
AzSEF Second Place Winner in Category 

Elucidating RSV F-Fusion Protein-Host Interactions: Graph Attention Networks (GAN) and Structural Visualization

Materials Science 

ISEF Finalist

ISEF Award Winner: Third Place in Category

AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Enhancing Tea-Waste Based Biopolymer Nanocomposite Performance through a Novel Synthetic Cuticular Hydrocarbon Bilayer Coating: A Sustainable Packaging Alternative

Biomedical Engineering

ISEF Finalist 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

 A Portable Tricep Support Exosuit Built from Soft Pneumatic Actuators

Plant Science 

ISEF Finalist 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category

A Prickly Project 

Chemistry

ISEF Finalist 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Natural Aqua Purifier - A Novel Way to Purify Water using Moringa Seed Powder, Neem Leaf Powder, and Peanut Husks

Earth & Environmental Science

ISEF Finalist 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Aquatic Toxicity of Sunscreen Ingredients in Freshwater Ecosystems

Animal Science 

ISEF Finalist 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

 Investigating the Apoptotic Induction Potential of Various Chemical Food Preservatives on Caenorhabditis elegans

Physics & Astronomy

ISEF Finalist 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Beyond the Stars: A Data-driven Approach to Exoplanet Categorization

Biomedical & Health Services

ISEF Finalist 
ISEF Fourth Place Winner in Category 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Detection of Fungal Infection via Macroscopic Fluorescence of DNA/RNA using Non-Toxic SYBR-safe Dyes for a New, Accurate, Fast, Handheld, Small Blood Volume Diagnostic (SBVD) Device: FungiBug™

Environmental Engineering 

AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Development and Life Cycle Analysis of a novel Mine-Tailings derived Cementitious System for use in Sustainable, Multi-functional Applications

Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics

ISEF Finalist 
ISEF Fourth Place Winner in Category 
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

I.D.A.S - Interlocking Drone Aerial Swarm: Enhancing Thrust and Battery Configuration Flexibility


2023 Alumni

Animal Science 

AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

The Detection of Diabetes via Urine Samples using Ants and C. Elegans

Systems Software 
ISEF Finalist
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category

Musical Chords: A Mobile App That Auto-Generates Chord Progressions

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 

ISEF Finalist 
ISEF Third Place Winner in Category
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category

A Novel Deep Learning Predictor for Post-Therapeutic Breast Cancer Recurrence Risk Using a Multi-omics Data Integration Framework

Systems Software

ISEF Finalist
ISEF First Place Winner in Category
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Analyzing the Effect of Mid-Circuit Measurement (MCM) on Spectator Qubits

Earth & Environmental Science 

AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Sunscreen Safety: The Effect of UV Filters on Freshwater Invertebrates

Biochemistry 

ISEF Finalist
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Experimental Characterization of Allosterically Relevant Mutations in Beta-Glucosidase Identified Using a Dynamics-Guided Computational Approach

Engineering Technology : Statistics & Dynamics

ISEF Finalist
AzSEF 2nd Place Winner in Category 

PTERA - Propeller Tilt Efficiency Rotor Aircraft




2019 Alumni

Physics

ISEF Finalist
ISEF Award Winner: Fourth Place in Category  
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Development of a thin and inexpensive open-air proton beam detector for characterizing the beam profile and position

Chemistry

ISEF Finalist
ISEF Special Award Winner: Drexel University Full Tuition Scholarship  
AzSEF First Place Winner in Category 

Novel Artificial Synthesis of Sugars from Non-Organic Compounds for Renewable Cellular Energy


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