Intel ISEF 2018
Top Winners from 2018
Gordon E. Moore Award Winner of $75,000
Oliver Nicholls, 19, of Sydney, Australia
Autonomous Window Cleaning Robot for Commercial High Rise Buildings
Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awards – $50,000 each
Meghana Bollimpalli, 17, of Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Green Synthesis of Phosphorous, Nitrogen Co-Doped Carbon Materials from Renewable Resources for Supercapacitor Applications via Microwave Assisted Technique
Dhruvik Parikh, 18, of Bothell, Washington, United States
A Novel Sol-Gel Derived SPEEK/Silicon Dioxide Composite Membrane for the Vanadium Redox Flow Battery
Intel ISEF 2018 Highlights Video
The 2018 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair featured nearly 1,800 young scientists selected from 420 affiliate fairs in more than 78 countries, regions and territories. In addition to the top winners, approximately 600 finalists received awards and prizes for their innovative research, including 22 “Best of Category” winners, who each received a US $5,000 prize. The Intel Foundation also awarded a US $1,000 grant to each “Best of Category” winner’s school and to the affiliated fair they represent.
| Category | Name | City | State/Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Sciences | Anna Spektor Ayman Isahaku |
Glendale | Wisconsin |
| Behavioral and Social Sciences | Amy Shteyman | Great Neck | New York |
| Biochemistry | Rhea Malhotra | Bethlehem | Pennsylvania |
| Biomedical and Health Sciences | Nabeel Quryshi | Milwaukee | Wisconsin |
| Biomedical Engineering | Ronak Roy | San Diego | California |
| Cellular and Molecular Biology | Ella Feiner | Bronx | New York |
| Chemistry | Meghana Bollimpalli | Little Rock | Arkansas |
| Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Marissa Sumathipala | Asburn | Virginia |
| Earth and Environmental Sciences | Vasily Tremsin | Moraga | California |
| Embedded Systems | Malav Shah Burzin Balsara |
Plano | Texas |
| Energy: Chemical | Dhruvik Parikh | Bothell | Washington |
| Energy: Physical | Sathya Edamadaka | Lincroft | New Jersey |
| Engineering Mechanics | Frederik Dunschen | Münster | Germany |
| Environmental Engineering | Raina Jain | Greenwich | Connecticut |
| Materials Science | Daniel Kang | Tamuning | Guam |
| Mathematics | Muhammad Abdulla | Melbourne | Florida |
| Microbiology | Logan Dunkenberger | Roanoke | Virginia |
| Physics and Astronomy | Ana Humphrey | Alexandria | Virginia |
| Plant Sciences | Yueyang Fan | Shanghai | China |
| Robotics and Intelligent Machines | Oliver Nicholls | Sydney | Australia |
| Systems Software | Ruihua Chou | Beijing | China |
| Translational Medical Science | Edwin Bodoni | Greenwood Village | Colorado |