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Gunn senior wins $20K in science competition
Andrew Liu's project uses computer analysis to shed light on organ rejection
by Chris Kenrick
Palo Alto Online Staff
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A Gunn High School student won $20,000 over the weekend (Dec. 3-5), placing
fifth out of six finalists in the Washington, D.C. nationals of the Siemens
Competition in Math, Science & Technology.
Senior Andrew Liu was honored for a bioinformatics project that uses
computer data analysis to improve the understanding of organ rejection. The
contest drew initial entries from more than 2,000 students from across the
United States.
The top prize of $100,000 went to Benjamin Clark, a 15-year-old senior from
Penn Manor High School in Millersville, Penn., for research that sheds new
light on how stars are born. The top prize of $100,000 for teams went to
Akash Krishnan and Matthew Fernandez, juniors at Oregon Episcopal School in
Portland, Ore., for developing a computer algorithm to detect emotion in the
human voice.
Six individuals and six teams competed in the national finals over the
weekend after winning one of six regional competitions in November. They
presented their research to a panel of judges comprised of scientists and
engineers headed by Thomas D. Jones, a scientist, author, pilot and former
NASA astronaut.
The $100,000 prizewinners will ring the "closing bell" at the New York Stock
Exchange in January.
Liu "developed a more efficient way to extract meaning from the flood of
modern genomic data and went on to test it on the problem of acute organ
rejection," Siemens judge Brian Williams, senior scientist at the California
Institute of Technology, said in describing the Gunn student's project.
"With further testing, his technique could have a huge influence on both
basic and clinical research."
In an interview prior to the regional finals held at Caltech in November,
Liu said, "Applying computer science to biology, the study of disease, is
very rewarding because it can have direct beneficial impact to society."
Liu worked on the project with a mentor, Stanford University postdoctoral
researcher Purvesh Khatri.
In addition to his computer science research Liu, fluent in Mandarin, is
president of Gunn's speech and debate club and co-editor of The Chariot, the
school's cultural and political magazine. He's also a two-time winner of
the Intel Excellence in Computer Science award at the USA Math Olympiad.
His $20,000 prize for the Siemens natonal finals comes atop a $3,000 prize
he earned for winning the regional finals last month. Also advancing to the
regional finals was Palo Alto High School senior Scott Zhuge, who worked
with an astrophysics mentor at NASA Ames Research Center to measure the
amount of neon, sulfur and hydrogen in the Orion Nebula.
Also competing as semifinalists in this year's Siemens contest were Gunn
students Elliot Akama-Green, Brian Zhang, Helen Jiang and Audrey Ho.
The Siemens Foundation said 2,033 students registered to enter the science
competition this year for a record number of 1,372 projects submitted in
both individual and team categories. | d********t
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: Source:
: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=19248
: Gunn senior wins $20K in science competition
: Andrew Liu's project uses computer analysis to shed light on organ rejection
: by Chris Kenrick
: Palo Alto Online Staff
: Photo
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: A Gunn High School student won $20,000 over the weekend (Dec. 3-5), placing
: fifth out of six finalists in the Washington, D.C. nationals of the Siemens
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