In January 2023, Rishab Jain, Sruthi Sentil, and Patrick Wahlig, high school seniors who joined MSEAS during summer 2022 as RSI scholars, recently entered the Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS), the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition for high school seniors, and were named top 300 scholars out of 1,949 students in the 2023 competition. Each scholar will receive $2,000, and their schools will also receive $2,000 to use toward STEM-related activities. Rishab’s research with MSEAS was on “GlioMod: Spatiotemporal-Aware Glioblastoma Multiforme Tumor Growth Modeling with Deep Encoder-Decoder Networks,” and was advised by Abhinav Gupta and Wael Hajj Ali; Sruthi’s research was on “Machine Learning-Informed Ocean Source Localization In An Ocean Waveguide Environment,” and was advised by Wael Hajj Ali; and Patrick’s research was on “Towards a System for Modeling the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Sea Scallops (Placopecten magellanicus) in Massachusetts Bay,” and was advised by Pat Haley.

This is an extraordinary accomplishment deserving of much celebration, so congrats Rishab, Sruthi, and Patrick!