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Singapore Students Clinch Record 11 Awards at International Science and Engineering Competition

Last Updated: 29 May 2025

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The Singapore student delegation clinched eleven awards at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)1 2025 – the highest number of awards won since Singapore's first participation in ISEF in 2001. The delegation of eight students competed against more than 1,700 students from over 60 countries, regions, and territories. In total, four individual projects and two team projects2 were submitted to ISEF, which was held in Columbus, Ohio, USA, from 10 to 16 May 2025.

2. Our students demonstrated inventive thinking skills by applying STEM concepts to address real-world contexts and challenges:

  • Mr Ying Liqian from the NUS High School of Mathematics and Science, who has a deep interest in the Make24 brain teaser, clinched four awards with his project, which explored the game's mathematical properties for application in real-world situations. This is the highest number of awards ever won by an individual project from Singapore at the ISEF.
  • Ms Felicia Tan Ee Shan and Ms Low Li Ying Amy from Raffles Institution developed a novel intelligent video analysis framework that helps computers detect hateful video content more accurately, relieving fatigue and pressure placed on human content moderators.
  • Similarly, Mr Rameshkumar Dhanvine from Temasek Junior College developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) framework that improves the precision, speed, and accessibility of meta-lens design, therefore accelerating innovations in optics including augmented reality (AR) glasses, holography, and light detection and ranging (LiDAR).

3. Through the competition, our students exchanged insights with young scientists across the world, and gained valuable learning experiences. The Ministry of Education (MOE), the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and Science Centre Singapore commend our budding young scientists for their active participation and excellent performance at this year's fair. The award-winning projects are as follows (details in Annex A):

Grand Awards3

Award Title Student(s) Project Title
Materials Science Category Award: 4th Prize Ang Shi Qi Georia LuminaSand: Harnessing the Optoelectronic Potential of Silicon Dioxide with Focused Laser Beam
Mathematics Category Award: 3rd Prize Ying Liqian Make24: Elegant Elementary Bounds for a Numbers Game
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Category Award: 2nd Prize Felicia Tan Ee Shan
Low Li Ying Amy 		Great Minds Think Alike, Great Models Think All At Once: MAESTRO, A Unified Framework for Video-Audio Understanding & Reasoning
Systems Software Category Award: 4th Prize Wang Zerui
Kwok Xin Ze Vincent 		LiDRNet: Lightweight Inertial Dead Reckoning Network

Special Awards4

Award Title Student(s) Project Title
King Abdulaziz & his Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity Award Rameshkumar Dhanvine Think, Generate, Optimize: Presenting a Novel Fully AI-Driven Design Framework for Metasurface Lenses
Ang Shi Qi Georia LuminaSand: Harnessing the Optoelectronic Potential of Silicon Dioxide with Focused Laser Beam
Mu Alpha Theta, National High School and Two-Year College Mathematics Honor Society: 2nd Prize Ying Liqian Make24: Elegant Elementary Bounds for a Numbers Game
Oracle Academy Award Wang Zerui
Kwok Xin Ze Vincent 		LiDRNet: Lightweight Inertial Dead Reckoning Network
TUBITAK The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Türkiye: 1st Prize Ying Liqian Make24: Elegant Elementary Bounds for a Numbers Game
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: Honourable Mention Rameshkumar Dhanvine Think, Generate, Optimize: Presenting a Novel Fully AI-Driven Design Framework for Metasurface Lenses
Membership to American Mathematical Society Ying Liqian Make24: Elegant Elementary Bounds for a Numbers Game
Footnotes
  1. Regeneron ISEF is one of the world鈥檚 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
  2. The ISEF student delegates were selected based on their outstanding performance at the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (SSEF) 2025 held in March 2025. 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 project categories in ISEF 2025. The full list of Grand Awards given out in ISEF 2025 can be found at:
  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. The full list of Special Awards given out in ISEF 2025 can be found at: