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Eight Fairfax County Public Schools students were named scholars in the 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search, placing them among 300 students selected from nearly 2,500 entrants nationwide.
All eight scholars attend Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Their research spans artificial intelligence, environmental sustainability, medicine, genetics, chemistry and antifungal treatments.
The students and their projects are:
- Sanchali Banerjee: LUSO-GenAI: A Novel Framework Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs) To Synthesize Spatial Land Use Strategy Through Economic-Environmental Payoff Optimization.
- Marina Lin: A Carbon-Aware Ant Colony System Algorithm for the Sustainable Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem.
- Phoebe Pan: Data Augmentation Strategies for Improved PM2.5 Forecasting Using Transformer Architectures.
- Samvrit Vasudev Rao: A Novel AI Framework for Personalized COPD Treatment Planning: Integrating EHR Analytics and Phenotype-Based Weighted Predictions.
- Patrick Shi: Integrative Genomic Analysis Identifies Novel Causal Genes of Hodgkin’s and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
- Jaydon Shuan Sun: Synthesis, Crystal Structures and Hirshfeld Surface Analysis of 18-Crown-6 Stabilized Potassium and Ammonium Salt of Oxalatotriphenylstannate.
- Avnith Vijayram: Graph Networks and Game Theory to Predict Gene Expression Pathways and Cardiotoxicity in Cardiac Cells.
- Ray Zhang: Biofilm Composition in Clinical Isolates of Fungal Fusarium and Development of a Multi-Targeted Antifungal Treatment to Inhibit Proliferation.
The Regeneron Science Talent Search, operated by the Society for Science & the Public, is a leading national science competition for students before college. Its alumni have received more than 100 major science and mathematics honors, including Nobel Prizes and National Medals of Science.
Each of the 300 scholars will receive $2,000, with a matching award going to the scholar’s school.
Forty finalists are scheduled to be announced Jan. 23. They will be invited to Washington, D.C., in March for final judging, a public exhibition of their work and meetings with prominent scientists. The competition’s top award is $250,000.