WISE Team students proudly celebrate representing Washington State each year at ISEF!
The Washington International Science & Engineering (WISE) Team is comprised of the Grand Champions from WSSEF and six Regional Fairs. How did the WISE Team do at ISEF this year? Click here to find out.
Congratulations to the Washington State Science & Engineering Grand Champions at ISEF
WSSEF Gold Medallion ~ Aashrith Pisupati, grade 11, “SPINO: A Physics-Informed Fourier Neural Operator Surrogate for Accelerating Schrödinger–Poisson Simulation of Nanoscale Gate-All-Around Transistors”
WSSEF Silver Medallion ~ Harshita Sinha, grade 11
WSSEF Bronze Medallion ~ Lakshmi Agrawal, grade 12, “Stormwater Remediation of 6PPD and 6PPD-Quinone Using Citric Acid and Aluminum Crosslinked Nanocellulose Hydrosponges”
Also participating at the 2026 Regeneron International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF)
ISEF Finalists ~ WSSEF
Lakshmi Agrawal ~ grade 12, “Stormwater Remediation of 6PPD and 6PPD-Quinone Using Citric Acid and Aluminum Crosslinked Nanocellulose Hydrosponges”
Vedika Devarajan ~ grade 9, “BananaBaby: Musa spp. Anisotropic and Parallel Venation Biomimetic Neonatal Incubator Liner Preventing Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) in Developing Countries”
Samanyu Ezhilarasan ~ grade 11, “A Multi-Stage Computational Pipeline for Designing Therapeutic Peptides Against Alpha-Synuclein Aggregation”
Lahari Nellore ~ grade 11, “Design of Host-Mimic Peptides to Disrupt Bacterial Quorum Sensing in Lung Infections”
Omkar Phadnis ~ grade 11, “Unified Transcriptomic Melanoma Reference Map Reveals Predictive Molecular Signatures for Patient Prognosis”
Aashrith Pisupati ~ grade 11, “SPINO: A Physics-Informed Fourier Neural Operator Surrogate for Accelerating Schrödinger–Poisson Simulation of Nanoscale Gate-All-Around Transistors”
Hamsini Ramanathan ~ grade 10, “DreaMS-PFAS: A Novel Transformer-Based Approach for Early Detection of PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water and Environmental Samples”
Harshita Sinha ~ grade 11
Rishi Srinivasin ~ grade 11, “SolarEye: Novel Solar Energy Harvesting Retinal Molecule Derivative and Rhodopsin Inspired Protein Scaffold Biomaterial Designed by Utilizing a Large-Language-Model and Computational Tools”
More ISEF Finalists ~ Regional Fairs
| Anusha Arora, CSRSEF |
| Prayrona Choudhury, MCSF |
| Emma Chow, EWRSEF |
| Aarav Gupta, CSRSEF |
| Saanvi Krishnareddgari, EWRSEF |
| Allison Monkman, EWRSEF |
| Akshath Motkuri, MCSF |
| Arjun Natesan, EWRSEF |
| Teddy Osborne, EWRSEF |
| Anika Prakash, CSRSEF |
| Zain Shariff, SWRSEF |
| Aarav Shrivastava, MCSF |
| Reagan Smith, EWRSEF |
| Sanjay Srinivasan, CSRSEF |
| Anders Thogerson, EWRSEF |
| Anay Tiwar, CSRSEF |
| Adhrith Vutukuri, CSRSEF |
| Sabrina Wang, EWRSEF |
Meet the Regional Fair ISEF Student Observer Comprising the WISE Team
Samuel Wang, MCSF
