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Strong Showing by Singapore's Young Research Talents at Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2024

Last Updated: 30 May 2024

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Eight Singapore students competed against more than 1,700 students from 67 countries, regions, and territories at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)1 2024. The Singapore delegation clinched nine awards, the most since Singapore's first participation in ISEF in 2001.

2. In total, four individual projects and two team projects2 were submitted to ISEF, which was held in person in Los Angeles, California, USA, from 11 to 17 May 2024. The students exchanged ideas and insights with young scientists from all over the world and gained valuable experience.

3. Our students demonstrated their keen ability to grasp and apply STEM concepts through research, and developed innovative solutions for real-world challenges. Mr Cai Junxiang from National Junior College and Mr Aidan Ong from Hwa Chong Institution developed new computer models which can handle data at a larger scale, and identify trends more accurately. Their project obtained three awards, which is the most number of awards won by a team project from Singapore at the ISEF. Mr Gedeon Kusuma Ang from Raffles Institution developed a highly space-efficient urban farming system for installation in homes and offices, using the strengths of additive manufacturing and innovative design.

4. The Ministry of Education (MOE), the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and Science Centre Singapore congratulate them on their strong performance at this year's fair. The award-winning projects are as follows (details in Annex A):


Grand Awards3

Full Title of Award Student(s) Project Title
Engineering Technology: Statics and Dynamics Category Award: 2nd Prize Ang Gedeon Kusuma SMART (Sustainable, Modular, Additively-manufactured, Robust, Tower-style) Urban Farming
Biomedical Engineering Category Award: 3rd prize Wu Jiaqi STEPs Ahead: Self-Powered TriboElectric Nanogenerator for Dynamic Multidirectional Pressure Sensing
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Category Award: 3rd Prize Cai Junxiang
Aidan Ong		 State Space Models Are All You Need
Physics and Astronomy Category Award: 4th Prize Martin Koh Zhen Xuan Precession, Nutation and Dynamic Trajectory of a Magnetic Rod in an Axisymmetric Magnetic Field

Special Awards4

Full Title of Award Student(s) Project Title
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Award: 1st Prize Cai Junxiang
Aidan Ong		 State Space Models Are All You Need
National Security Agency Research Directorate Award: 3rd Prize (Cybersecurity) Cai Junxiang
Aidan Ong		 State Space Models Are All You Need
Non-Trivial Scholarship Lim Wan Qin Atomically Yours: Novel DeepGraphDTI Takes Fight Against Future Pandemics to the Next Level
Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation Council Award Ang Gedeon Kusuma SMART (Sustainable, Modular, Additively-manufactured, Robust, Tower-style) Urban Farming
Shanghai Youth Science Education Society Award Wu Jiaqi STEPs Ahead: Self-Powered TriboElectric Nanogenerator for Dynamic Multidirectional Pressure Sensing

Footnotes

  1. Regeneron ISEF is one of the world's largest annual pre-college science fairs that provides a platform for top science and engineering talents to showcase their projects. For more information on the Regeneron ISEF, please refer to https://www.societyforscience.org/isef

  2. The ISEF student delegates were selected based on their outstanding performance at the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF) 2024 held in March 2024. SSEF is a national competition jointly organised by MOE, A*STAR, and Science Centre Singapore.

  3. Grand Awards are given out by the organisers of the Regeneron ISEF, Society for Science, to top-performing projects from each project category in the competition. There are a total of 22 ISEF categories in ISEF 2024, and awards were presented to the top four projects within each category.

  4. Special Awards are given out by professional organisations representing government, industry, and education across a wide variety of scientific disciplines, who are affiliated with Regeneron ISEF.