PRIMES: Honors and Awards
This page lists PRIMES students who received various honors and awards for their research projects. See also Award-winning RSI Projects Supervised by PRIMES staff.
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Cumulative report since the inception of the program
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2019 projects
The Ninth Annual PRIMES Conference
In the 2019 cycle, 92 local and out-of-state PRIMES, PRIMES-USA, and PRIMES Circle students were working on 58 faculty-formulated research projects in mathematics, computer science, and physical and computational biology and studying in 13 reading groups under the mentorship of postdoctoral researchers and graduate and undergraduate students. So far they have received the following honors:
- Five finalists and 9 national scholar awards in the 2020 Regeneron Science Talent Search Competition;
- Four students received Outstanding Presentation awards at the MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session of the 2020 Joint Mathematics Meeting;
- Two USA finalists in Mathematics, two USA finalists in Biology, one USA finalist in Physics, one USA finalist in Economic and Financial Modeling, three USA semifinalists in Mathematics, four USA semifinalists in Computer Science, and one USA semifinalist in Biology at the 2019 Yau High School Science Award.
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Lucy Cai 2019 Yau Science Award USA semifinalist (Math)
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Sarah Chen 2019 Yau Science Award USA finalist (Silver in Biology) and Global Silver Biology Award winner
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Neil Chowdhury 2019 Yau Science Award USA finalist (Gold in Biology) and Global Excellence Biology Award winner
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Ezra Erives 2020 Regeneron STS scholar
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Vincent Fan 2019 Yau Science Award USA semifinalist (Computer Science)
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Zander Hill 2020 Regeneron STS finalist
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Sunay Joshi 2020 Regeneron STS scholar
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Benjamin Kang 2020 Regeneron STS scholar
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Nithin Kavi 2020 Regeneron STS finalist
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Lev Kruglyak 2020 Regeneron STS scholar
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Ziyan Lei 2019 Yau Science Award USA finalist (Gold in Math) and Global Gold Math Award winner
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Rupert Li 2020 Regeneron STS finalist
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Jason Liu 2020 Regeneron STS finalist (project done outside of PRIMES)
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Yuyuan Luo 2020 MAA Outstanding Presentation award
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Espen Slettnes 2019 Yau Science Award USA semifinalist (Math)Mentor: Dr. Jesse Geneson, Iowa State
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Frank Wang 2020 Regeneron STS scholar
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Andrew Weinfeld 2020 Regeneron STS scholar
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Alek Westover 2020 Regeneron STS finalist
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Jason Yang 2019 Yau Science Award USA semifinalist (Biology)
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William Yue 2019 Yau Science Award USA semifinalist (Computer Science)
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Andrew Zhang 2020 Regeneron STS scholar
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Victoria Zhang 2020 Regeneron STS scholar
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Jeremy Zhou 2020 MAA Outstanding Presentation award
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Christopher Zhu 2020 Regeneron STS scholar
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Sebastian Zhu 2019 Yau Science Award USA semifinalist (Computer Science)
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2018 projects
The Eighth Annual PRIMES Conference
In the 2018 cycle, 90 local and out-of-state PRIMES, PRIMES-USA, and PRIMES Circle students were working on 50 faculty-formulated research projects in mathematics, computer science, and physical and computational biology and studying in 13 reading groups under the mentorship of postdoctoral researchers and graduate and undergraduate students. So far they have received the following honors:
- Two 2nd Grand Awards in Mathematics, 3rd Special Award (from AMS), and Honorable Mention (Mathematics, from NSA) at the 2019 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF);
- 9th Place ($50,000 scholarship), 1 finalist, and 12 national scholar awards in the 2019 Regeneron Science Talent Search Competition;
- 1st Place in Mathematics at 2018 Broadcom MASTERS;
- Nine students received Outstanding Presentation awards at the MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session of the 2019 Joint Mathematics Meeting;
- Two 2019 Davidson Fellows ($25,000 and $10,000) and three honorable mentions.
Students' honors:
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Rinni Bhansali 2019 ISEF 2nd Grand Award (Math)
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Sanjit Bhat 2019 Honorable Mention for Davidson Fellowship
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Vincent Bian 2019 Regeneron STS scholar
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Merrick Cai 2019 Honorable Mention for Davidson Fellowship
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Robert Chen 2019 Regeneron STS scholar
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Zhengyang (Leo) Dong 2019 Regeneron STS scholar
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Ezra Erives 2019 MAA Outstanding Presentation award
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Kaiying Hou 2019 Regeneron STS scholar
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Vincent Huang 2019 Regeneron STS 9th Place
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Aayush Karan 2019 Davidson Fellow
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Nithin Kavi 2019 MAA Outstanding Presentation award
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Ryan Kim 2019 MAA Outstanding Presentation award
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Anusha Murali 2019 Honorable Mention for Davidson Fellowship
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Srinivasan Sathiamurthy 2019 MAA Outstanding Presentation award
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Espen Slettnes 2018 Broadcom MASTERS 1st Place in Mathematics
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Shashvat Srivastava 2019 Regeneron STS scholar
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Stanley Wang 2019 Regeneron STS scholar
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Wendy Wu 2019 MAA Outstanding Presentation award
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Guanpeng (Andy) Xu 2019 Regeneron STS scholar
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Eric Zhang 2019 Regeneron STS scholar
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Daniel Zhu 2019 Davidson Fellow
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2017 projects
The Seventh Annual PRIMES Conference
In the 2017 cycle, 86 local and out-of-state PRIMES, PRIMES-USA, and PRIMES Circle students were working on 49 faculty-formulated research projects in mathematics, computer science, and physical and computational biology and studying in 12 reading groups under the mentorship of postdoctoral researchers and graduate and undergraduate students from MIT and Harvard. So far they have received the following honors:
- 2nd Prize ($50,000 scholarship), two national finalist ($25,000), 4 regional finalist, and 21 semifinalist awards in the 2017 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology;
- 7th Place ($70,000), 6 finalists, and 9 national scholar awards in the 2018 Regeneron Science Talent Search Competition;
- 4th Grand Award in Mathematics, 1st Special Award (Science of Security, from NSA), 2nd Special Award (from AMS), and 3rd Special Award (from ACM) at the 2018 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), and 3rd Grand Award in Biomedical and Health Sciences at ISEF 2017;
- One student received an Outstanding Presentation award at the MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session of the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego;
- one 2018 Davidson Fellow ($25,000) and three honorable mentions.
Students' honors:
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Ayush Agarwal 2018 Regeneron STS scholar
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Sanjit Bhat 2017 Siemens semifinalist
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Vivek Bhupatiraju 2018 Regeneron STS scholar
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August Chen 2018 Regeneron STS scholar
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Jeremy Chen 2017 Siemens semifinalist (project done outside of PRIMES)
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Robert Chen 2017 Siemens semifinalist
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Chao Cheng 2018 Regeneron STS scholar
(project done outside of PRIMES)
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David Darrow 2018 Regeneron STS scholar
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Kaan Dokmeci 2018 Regeneron STS scholar
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Swapnil Garg 2017 Siemens national finalist (project done outside of PRIMES)
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Kyle Gatesman 2017 Siemens semifinalist
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Michael Gintz 2018 Regeneron STS scholar
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Gopal Goel 2018 ISEF 4th Grand Award (Math)
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Louis Golowich 2018 Regeneron STS finalist (project done outside of PRIMES)
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Henry Heffan 2017 Siemens semifinalist
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Kevin Hu 2017 ISEF 3rd Grand Award (biomed) (project done outside of PRIMES)
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John Kuszmaul 2017 Siemens semifinalist
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David Lu 2017 Siemens semifinalist
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Michael Ma 2018 Regeneron STS finalist
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Kalyan Palepu 2017 Siemens semifinalist
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Dylan Pentland 2018 Regeneron STS finalist
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Michael Ren 2018 Regeneron STS finalist
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Harshal Sheth 2017 Siemens semifinalist
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Mihir Singhal 2018 Regeneron STS scholar
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Shashvat Srivastava 2017 Siemens semifinalist
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Andrew Sun 2017 Siemens semifinalist
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Grace Tian 2018 Regeneron STS finalist
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Vinjai Vale 7th Place at 2018 Regeneron STS
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Adithya Vellal 2017 Siemens semifinalist
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Franklyn Wang 2018 Regeneron STS finalist
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Wendy Wu 2017 Siemens regional finalist
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Guanpeng (Andy) Xu 2017 Siemens regional finalist
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Andrew Zhang 2017 Siemens semifinalist
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Anlin Zhang 2017 Siemens national finalist
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William Zhang 2018 Regeneron STS scholar
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Yiming Zheng 2017 Siemens semifinalist
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2016 projects
The Sixth Annual PRIMES Conference
In the 2016 cycle, 75 local and out-of-state PRIMES, PRIMES-USA, and PRIMES Circle students were working on 40 faculty-formulated research projects in mathematics, computer science, and physical and computational biology and studying in 13 reading groups under the mentorship of postdoctoral researchers and graduate and undergraduate students from MIT and Harvard. They have received the following honors:
- 4th Prize (two students; $30,000 scholarship), 1 regional finalist award, and 9 semifinalist awards in the 2016 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology;
- 2nd Place ($175,000 scholarship), 6th Place ($80,000), 2 finalists, and 8 national scholar awards in the 2017 Regeneron Science Talent Search Competition;
- 3rd and 4th Grand Awards in Mathematics and 2nd Special Award (from AMS) at the 2017 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF);
- one Davidson Fellow ($25,000).
Students' honors:
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Leo Alcock Paper presenter at 9th ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop, Dallas, Texas, November 2017
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Kai-Siang Ang 2017 Regeneron STS scholar
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Vivek Bhupatiraju 2016 Siemens semifinalist
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Kevin Chang 2017 Regeneron STS scholar
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Makena Binker Cosen (PRIMES Circle student) 2016 Siemens semifinalist
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Louis Golowich 2016 Siemens 4th Prize
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Nicholas Guo 2017 Regeneron STS scholar
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Matthew Hase-Liu 2016 Siemens semifinalist
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Sathwik Karnik 2017 ISEF 4th Grand Award (in Math)
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John Kuszmaul 2016 Siemens semifinalist
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Alec Leng 2017 Regeneron STS scholar
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Nikhil Marda 2016 Siemens semifinalist
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Laura Pierson 2017 Regeneron STS 6th Place
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Dhruv Rohatgi 2016 Siemens semifinalist
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Alec Sun 2016 Siemens semifinalist (project done outside of PRIMES)
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Vinjai Vale 2016 Siemens semifinalist
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Felix Wang 2016 Siemens semifinalist
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Aaron Yeiser 2017 Regeneron STS 2nd Place
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Albert Yue 2016 Siemens regional finalist (project done outside of PRIMES)
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Richard Zhou 2016 Siemens 4th Prize
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2015 projects
The Fifth Annual PRIMES Conference
In the 2015 cycle, 74 local and out-of-state PRIMES, PRIMES-USA, and PRIMES Circle students were working on 30 faculty-formulated research projects in mathematics, computer science, and physical and computational biology and studying in 4 reading groups under the mentorship of postdoctoral researchers and graduate and undergraduate students from MIT and Harvard. They have received the following honors:
- 3 students received Outstanding Presentation awards at the MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session of the 2016 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Seattle;
- 2nd Place ($75,000) Medal of Distinction for Basic Research, 1 national finalist award, and 9 national semifinalist awards in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search;
- 6 regional finalist awards and 6 semifinalist awards in the 2015 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology;
- one Davidson Fellow Laureate ($50,000).
Students' honors:
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David Amirault 2016 Intel STS semifinalist
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Amy Chou 2015 Siemens semifinalist (project done outside of PRIMES)
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Nicholas Diaco Outstanding Presentation award at 2016 MAA
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Diana Ding 2015 Siemens regional finalist
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Brandon Epstein 2015 Siemens semifinalist
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Daniel Guo 2016 Intel STS semifinalist
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Meghal Gupta 2015 Siemens semifinalist
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Cristian Gutu 2015 Siemens regional finalist
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Meena Jagadeesan Davidson Fellow Laureate
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Varun Jain 2016 Intel STS semifinalist
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Kenz Kallal 2015 Siemens regional finalist
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Jacob Klegar 2016 Intel STS semifinalist
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Matthew Lipman 2015 Siemens regional finalist
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Dhruv Medarametla 2016 Intel STS semifinalist
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Mehtaab Sawhney 2016 Intel STS semifinalist
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Harshal Sheth 2015 Siemens semifinalist
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Girishvar Venkat 2016 Intel STS semifinalist
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Felix Wang 2015 Siemens regional finalist
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Aashish Welling 2015 Siemens semifinalist
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Rachel Zhang 2015 Siemens regional finalist
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2014 projects
The Fourth Annual PRIMES Conference
In the 2014 cycle, 59 local and out-of-state PRIMES, PRIMES-USA, and PRIMES Circle students are working on 38 faculty-formulated research projects in mathematics, computer science, and physical and computational biology and studying in 9 reading groups under the mentorship of postdoctoral researchers and graduate and undergraduate students from MIT and Harvard. They have received the following honors:
- 10 students were invited to present at the MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session of the 2015 Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Antonio, and 2 received an Outstanding Presentation award;
- 1st Prize ($100,000 scholarship), 2nd Prize ($50,000), 2 regional finalist awards, and 9 semifinalist awards in the 2014 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology;
- 1st Place ($150,000), 2nd Place ($75,000), and 3rd Place Medals of Distinction for Basic Research ($35,000), 3 national finalists and 9 national semifinalist awards in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search;
- one Davidson Fellow Laureate ($50,000) and one Davidson Fellow ($25,000);
- 3rd Place at 2015 National Junior Science & Humanities Symposium.
Students' honors:
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Amy Chou 2014 Siemens semifinalist
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2014 Siemens semifinalist
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2015 Intel STS semifinalist
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2015 Intel STS 1st Place
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2015 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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Brice Huang 2015 Intel STS 2nd Place
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Justin Kaashoek 2014 Siemens semifinalist
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2015 Intel STS 3rd Place
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2014 Siemens semifinalist
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Andrew Luo 2014 Siemens regional finalist (project done outside of PRIMES)
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2014 Siemens semifinalist
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Eric Neyman 2014 Siemens semifinalist
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2015 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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Peter Tian 2014 Siemens 1st Prize
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2014 Siemens semifinalist
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Joshua Xiong 2014 Siemens semifinalist
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2015 Intel STS semifinalist
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Ethan Zou 2014 Siemens semifinalist
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Joseph Zurier 2014 Siemens 2nd Prize
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2013 projects
The Third Annual PRIMES Conference
In the 2013 cycle, 52 local and out-of-state PRIMES, PRIMES-USA, and PRIMES Circle students worked on 33 faculty-formulated research projects in mathematics, computer science, and physical and computational biology and studying in 7 reading groups under the mentorship of postdoctoral researchers and graduate and undergraduate students from MIT and Harvard. They have received the following honors:
- 14 students were invited to present at the MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session of the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Baltimore, and 4 received an Outstanding Presentation award;
- 1st Grand Award (in Math) and 3rd Special Award (from AMS) at 2014 Intel ISEF;
- 2nd Prize (two students; $50,000 scholarship), 3 regional finalist awards, and 7 semifinalist awards in the 2013 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology;
- 3rd Prize ($50,000), 2 national finalists and 11 national semifinalist awards in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search;
- one Davidson Fellow Laureate ($50,000) and one Davidson Fellow ($25,000);
- Bronze award at the Shing-Tung Yau High School Math Competition;
- 1st Place in the Mathematical Science Category at the 2014 New York State Science and Engineering Fair; 1st Place at the 2014 Massachusetts State Science & Engineering Fair.
Students' honors:
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paper published in the College Mathematics Journal 45:2 (2014)
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Jeffrey Cai 2014 Intel STS semifinalist
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Vahid Fazel-Rezai 2014 Intel STS semifinalist
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2013 Siemens 2nd Prize
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2014 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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2013 Siemens 2nd Prize
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2014 Intel STS semifinalist
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2014 Intel STS semifinalist
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Davidson Fellow Laureate
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Nicolaas Kaashoek 2013 Siemens semifinalist |
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2014 Intel STS 3rd Prize |
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2014 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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Outstanding Presentation award at 2014 MAA Undergraduate
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Rohil Prasad 2014 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter |
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1st Grand Award (in Math) and 3rd Special Award (from AMS) at 2014 Intel ISEF
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2014 Intel STS semifinalist
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Uma Roy 2013 Siemens semifinalist (project done outside of PRIMES)
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2014 Intel STS finalist
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2014 Intel STS semifinalist
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2014 Intel STS semifinalist
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2013 Siemens semifinalist |
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Isaac Xia 2014 Intel STS semifinalist
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2012 projects
The Second Annual PRIMES Conference
In the 2012 cycle, 30 local and one out-of-state PRIMES students worked on 24 faculty-formulated research projects in mathematics, computer science, and physical and computational biology under the mentorship of MIT graduate students. They have received the following honors:
- 8 students were invited to present at the MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session of the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego;
- 5th Prize (two students; $20,000 scholarship), 8 regional finalist awards, and 2 semifinalist awards in the 2012 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, sweeping all finalist awards in Massachusetts and New Hampshire;
- 10th Prize ($20,000 scholarship), two national finalist awards, and five national semifinalist awards in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search;
- one Davidson Fellow ($10,000 scholarship);
- two PRIMES students presented their research at the academic conference, Dynamic Organization of Nuclear Function, held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in September-October 2012.
Students' honors:
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Dhroova Aiylam 2013 Intel STS semifinalist
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2013 Intel STS finalist
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2013 Intel STS semifinalist
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presenter at the conference Dynamic Organization of Nuclear Function in the Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory in September-October 2012
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2012 Siemens regional finalist
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2012 Siemens regional finalist
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2012 Siemens semifinalist
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Aaron Klein 2013 Intel STS semifinalist
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2012 Siemens regional finalist |
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presenter at the conference Dynamic Organization of Nuclear Function in the Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory in September-October 2012
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Rohil Prasad 2012 Siemens 5th Prize |
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2012 Siemens 5th Prize |
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Sahana Vasudevan 2013 Intel STS 10th Prize (project done outside of PRIMES) |
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Andrew Xia 2013 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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2012 Siemens semifinalist
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2012 Siemens regional finalist
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Ziling Zhou 2012 Siemens regional finalist
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2011 projects
The First Annual PRIMES Conference
In the 2011 cycle, 21 local PRIMES students worked on 16 faculty-formulated research projects in mathematics and physical and computational biology under the mentorship of MIT graduate students. They have received the following honors:
- 12 students were invited to present at the MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session of the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Boston, and 2 received an Outstanding Presentation award;
- 4 regional finalist awards and 3 semifinalist awards in the 2011 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, sweeping all finalist awards in Massachusetts;
- 4th Prize ($40,000 scholarship), 1 national finalist award, and 1 national semifinalist award in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search;
- 3rd Place at the Massachusetts Science and Engineering Fair;
- One 2012 Davidson Fellow Laureate ($50,000 scholarship) and one Davidson Fellow ($10,000 scholarship).
Students' honors:
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2011 Siemens regional finalist
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3rd Place at the Massachusetts Science and Engineering
Fair
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Yongyi Chen 2011 Siemens regional finalist
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2012 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter |
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2012 Davidson Fellow Laureate |
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2012 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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2012 Davidson Fellow
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2012 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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Aaron Klein 2012 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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2011 Siemens regional finalist
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Jason Li 2012 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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Carl Lian 2012 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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2012 Intel STS semifinalist
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2011 Siemens regional finalist
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