Location: Outside Main back loading zone
Coffee, tea, water available throughout the day
Snacks for purchase throughout the day
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The annual Harker Research Symposium showcases the discoveries of Harker's young scientists and alumni, honors the work of career scientists and entrepreneurs, and celebrates Silicon Valley's innovative spirit.
The research symposium, held each year in the spring on the upper school campus for the entire Harker community, includes displays of Harker students' often award-winning projects, talks by alumni involved in research, and corporate exhibitors.
Watch videos of 2022 keynote talks. See below for last year's schedule.
Location: Outside Main back loading zone
Coffee, tea, water available throughout the day
Snacks for purchase throughout the day
Locations:
Zhang Center & RPAC Gallery: Poster Sessions
Exhibitors: Nichols Atrium
Presenters will be available to present their posters at The Athletic Center and the RPAC lobby during the following times:
8-8:45a.m.
11:30-1:00p.m.
1:10-1:55p.m.
Location: Nichols Atrium
Corporate exhibits throughout the day
Location: Aux Gym
Students exhibits throughout the day
Locations:
Patil Theater RPAC
16th Annual Harker Research Symposium Opening
Anita Chetty: Opening Announcements
Location: Patil Theater RPAC
Dr. Kamini Varma
VP R&D, Thermofisher Scientific
Location: Nichols 309
Research Conducted at: Harker Labs
Research Mentor: Dr. Eric Nelson
Location: Nichols 307
Research Conducted at: UC Santa Barbara, Dept. of Political Science
Research Mentor: Dr. Ingmar Sturm, Ph.D.
Research poster was judged "Excellent" during Sigma Xi Student Research Conference, held in November 2021.
Research was selected for the 2022 JSHS Northern California & Western Nevada Regional Competition, to be held in March 2022.
Location: Nichols 303
Research Conducted at: Home and Harker Labs
Research Mentor: Kaushik Shivakumar, Anu Datar
Location: Nichols AUD
Location: Nichols Hall
STEM Buddies Activities
Location: Nichols 301
We hope that through this workshop, students can catch a glimpse into the world of artificial intelligence and how powerful AI can be. Participants will be introduced to what AI is and some cool real life examples, play games to help understand concepts behind AI, and brainstorm their own AI solutions to current problems. We highly encourage any lower or middle school students to attend this session if they would like to learn the fundamental basics of AI! No experience needed.
Location: Nichols AUD
Research Conducted at: Stanford University School of Medicine, Lab of Dr. Achin Bhowmik
Research Mentor: Dr. Achin Bhowmik, Dr. Eric Nelson, and Mr. Chris Spenner
2022 Regeneron Finalist
Location: Patil Theater RPAC
Steven Botte ‘82, Ashley Morishige ‘07 (via Zoom), Amy Rorabaugh ‘10, Simar Bajaj ‘20, Jasmine Wiese ‘20, Allison Sommers ‘21, Daniza Rodriguez ‘13
Moderated by Butch Keller, Upper School Head (via Zoom)
Location: Nichols 309
Research Conducted at: Home
Research Mentor: Michael Pistacchi
Location: Nichols 307
Research Conducted at: California Academy of Sciences
Research Mentor: Dr. Lauren Esposito, Chris Spenner
Research Paper accepted with revisions @ ZooKeys
Location: Nichols AUD
Research Conducted at: Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing, Stanford University
Research Mentor: Vicki Harrison, MSW (Program Director), Chris Spenner
Location: Aux Gym
Luncheon Keynote: Rishab Parthasarathy
Private invitation lunch
Location: Manzanita Hall
Exhibitor and Poster Sessions
General Lunch & Exhibitor and Poster Sessions
Location: Nichols Hall
STEM Buddies Activities
Location: Patil Theater RPAC
Senan Ebrahim ‘08 and Hassaan Ebrahim ‘11
Co-founders of Hikma Health
Location: Patil Theater RPAC
Dr. Hari Mix
Explorer and Scientist
Location: Patil Theater RPAC
Upendra Mardikar
Chief Security Officer, Snap Finance
Location: Nichols AUD
Research Conducted at: University of California Santa Barbara, Dept. of Earth Science (Valentine Lab)
Research Mentor: Eleanor C. Arrington, PhD Candidate, Michael Pistacchi
Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) Semifinalist & Top 300 Scholar
Location: Nichols 307
Research Conducted at: West Georgia University, Dept. of Mathematics
Research Mentor: Dr. Xiaofeng Gu
Location: Nichols 303
Research Conducted at: UC Santa Cruz, Dept. of Environmental Sciences
Research Mentor: Justin Luong, Ph.D. Candidate
Location: Patil Theater RPAC
Protecting ourselves from the Cyberstate
Upendra Mardikar
Chief Security Officer, Snap Finance
Location: Patil Theater RPAC
Research students:
Alice Feng ‘22, Sasvath Ramachandran ‘22, Prakrit Jain ‘22, Harsh Deep ‘22, Angela Jia ‘22, Natasha Matta ‘22
Research teacher Mr. Spenner,
Harker parent Mani Ramachandran
Location: Patil Theater RPAC
Dr. Kamini Varma
VP R&D, Thermofisher Scientific
Location: Nichols AUD
Location: Patil Theater RPAC
Senan Ebrahim ‘08 and Hassaan Ebrahim ‘11
Co-founders of Hikma Health
Location: Patil Theater RPAC
Upendra Mardikar
Chief Security Officer, Snap Finance
Location: Patil Theater RPAC
Dr. Hari Mix
Explorer and Scientist
Research Conducted at: Harker Labs
Research Mentor: Kristen Morgensen
Research Conducted at: Harker Labs
Research Mentor: Kristen Morgensen
Research Conducted at: Harker Labs
Research Mentor: Kathy Peng
Research Conducted at: Harker Labs
Research Mentor: Kristen Morgensen
Research Conducted at: Science Talent Training Center
Research Mentor: Jian Ge PhD
Location: Nichols AUD
Research Conducted at: Stanford University School of Medicine, Lab of Dr. Achin Bhowmik
Research Mentor: Dr. Achin Bhowmik, Dr. Eric Nelson, and Mr. Chris Spenner
The Harker Research Symposium is for the entire TK-grade 12 Harker community, but we welcome outside organizations as exhibitors - come showcase your products!
Sponsored by Harker's upper school science department and organized by Harker's WiSTEM Club (Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics ), the event has drawn top names in technology, including Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy; Salman Khan of Khan Academy; Nobel Laureate Dr. David Baltimore; Dr. Fei-Fei Li, chief scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud, and Jeff Dean, Google's senior fellow on the Google Brain Team.
This year's keynote speakers are Dr. Wayne Liu, senior VP of Perfect Corp, which revolutionizes beauty and personal care through AI and AR technologies; Chelsea Finn, research scientist and assistant professor, computer science & electrical engineering, Stanford University; Dr. Benjamin Chung, director of robotic surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine; Ryan Calo, professor, University of Washington School of Law and co-founder of the university's Tech Policy Lab; and Yi Sun '06, associate professor of statistics at the University of Chicago.
Previous exhibitors have included Autodesk, HP, Microsoft, eBay, IBM, Ericcson, Google/YouTube, Marvell Semiconductor, Nvidia, Tesla and Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center.
The research symposium celebrates the curiosity, scientific thinking and communications skills of Harker students in grades 8-12. Poster sessions and formal talks demonstrate high caliber student research and world-class science and academic programs at Harker.
The annual Harker Research Symposium showcases the discoveries of Harker's young scientists and alumni, honors the work of career scientists and entrepreneurs, and celebrates Silicon Valley's innovative spirit.
Upper school science department chair Anita Chetty, advisor for WiSTEM (Women in STEM), capitalizes on Harker's proximity to world class technology development to boost the symposium beyond a showcase for student projects into the realm of opening visitors' minds to new ideas as they emerge.
"This is one of Harker’s hallmark events where our community comes together for one day to celebrate curiosity and discovery," Chetty said. Watch this space for updates!