64th Annual STS (2004-2005)
Finalists
Sherri Yifan Geng

MARYLAND
Sherri Yifan Geng, 18, of Rockville, created an automated detection system to identify seizure patterns in digital EEG (electroencephalograph) data for her medicine and health entry in the Intel Science Talent Search. She spent two summers at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, working to eliminate the time-consuming manual process of scanning large amounts of continuous EEG recordings through automation. Her solution - a novel computerized detection algorithm based on principal and discriminate analyses - may also be used to analyze other types of time series-based physiological information, such as electrocardiogram (EKG) data, and she is applying for a patent. At Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Sherri is an editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, co-president of the physics team and president of the science club. A published author and poet and an accomplished musician, she has perfect SAT scores and has received numerous awards for academic achievements and top honors as a world-class table tennis player. Born in China, Sherri is the daughter of Drs. Zheng Geng and Jennifer Xie and plans to study at Harvard.