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2026 STS Winners

10 winners from California across 1 state.

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California (10)

The Dual Canonical Basis in the Spin Representation via the Temperley-Lieb Algebra

Rachel Chen
Marlborough School · Los Angeles · Finalist ($25,000)

Designing Incentive-Compatible Cooperation for the Global Commons: A Reinforcement Learning-Integrated Mechanism Design Framework for Arctic Conservation

Ryka Chopra
Mission San Jose High School · Fremont · Finalist ($25,000)

Frequency-Based Parameterization of Semi-Empirical Models for State-of-Health Estimation in Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles

Colin Jie Chu
The Nueva School · San Mateo · Finalist ($25,000)

An Unrestricted Notion of the Finite Factorization Property

Jonathan Du
Los Altos High School · Mountain View · Finalist ($25,000)

Photobiomodulation on In Vivo and In Vitro Wound Models Under Simulated Microgravity for Future Space Travel

Leanne Fan
Westview School · San Diego · Finalist ($25,000)

PLI-Analyzer: A Novel Platform for Quantitative Assessment of Structural and Biological Accuracy in AI-Predicted Protein-Protein Complexes

Frances Liang
The Nueva School · Los Altos Hills · Finalist ($25,000)

AEGIS: Security Sandboxing Meets Mechanistic Interpretability To Defend Against Prompt Injection Attacks

Kevin Lu
Bellarmine College Preparatory School · Santa Clara · Finalist ($25,000)

Learning Broken Symmetries With Approximate Invariance: A Novel Dual-Subnetwork Approach to Classifying Particle Collision Events

Seth Jacob Nabat
William Howard Taft High School · Winnetka · Finalist ($25,000)

Star2Planet: Decoding and Predicting the Stellar Signatures of Planet Formation

Max Hung Nguyen
Leland High School · San Jose · Finalist ($25,000)

Bioinformatic Analysis of Metastasis-Associated Metabolic Landscape Reveals an Oncogenic Role for the Transsulfuration Pathway

Jonathan Yan
Sage Hill School · Irvine · Finalist ($25,000)