Program I · Research Mentoring · 国际科学与工程大奖赛

Regeneron ISEF.

国际科学与工程大奖赛 · Int'l Science & Engineering Fair

The world's largest international pre-college science competition — advised across every phase and read with the precise eye of a Grand Award Judge in Physics & Astronomy.

⁂ Judge 2023
2024 Verified

Grand Award Judge — Physics & Astronomy

The credential that shapes how every project is read and advised: method, novelty, independence, and defence — from inside the evaluation room of the Society for Science's International Science & Engineering Fair, in 2023 and 2024 (acceptance on file).

What the Fair Demands

The Standard · 评审标准

The Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair is the culmination of a worldwide network of affiliated fairs. A project that reaches the floor must be original, independently executed, and defensible to subject specialists — not merely well-presented. Grand Award judges evaluate the research itself, then question the student directly at the board.

Tian2 advises across every phase — question selection, experimental or computational design, the write-up, the display board, and the oral defence — with the standard held steady by a Grand Award Judge's read of what actually distinguishes a first-award project from a finalist.

How the Work Moves

Five Phases · 工作方法

Scope

Question selection and a genuine novelty check against the field's prior art.

Design

Methodology, honest controls, and a statistical plan set before data is taken.

Write

Research paper and abstract to SRC / ISEF format, clear to a non-specialist.

Board

Display-board structure and the narrative arc a judge reads in ninety seconds.

Defend

Oral-defence rehearsal with evaluator-level Q&A — the questions judges actually ask.

What the Coaching Produces

Deliverables · 交付物

§ 01Research question scoping and novelty check against the field's prior art.
§ 02Methodology design, controls, and statistical plan fixed before data collection.
§ 03Research paper and abstract in SRC / ISEF format.
§ 04Display-board structure and narrative arc for the ninety-second read.
§ 05Oral-defence rehearsal with evaluator-level Q&A.

Selected ISEF Results

Public Projects · Codes Only · 精选成果

ISEF finals — 1×1st, 3×2nd, 3×3rd (aggregate, mentored)

Physics 1st Award + SIYSS named Top Award (2024)

2020–24

Public finalist projects across six categories

PHYS057 A Novel Hadronization Model for Charm-Quark · Physics · 2024 1st Award + SIYSS (Top Award)

EBED019 MagGrid: Non-Levitative Electromagnet Propulsion · Embedded Systems · 2024 3rd Award

ETSD039 Highly Biotic Prosthetic Arm Design · Engineering · 2023 2nd Award

ROBO003 Action-Aware Vision Language Navigation (AAVLN) · Robotics · 2023 4th Award

BEHA020 Multilingual Offensive Language Detection · Behavioral Science · 2023 3rd Award

ETSD045 Biomimicking the Avian Tail · Engineering · 2022 4th Award

ENEV027 P-MFC to Treat Kitchen Wastewater · Environmental Engineering · 2022 3rd Award

Public ISEF finalist projects (project codes only; no student names). Each links to its public projectboard.world page. More mentored research is shown on the Research section.

The Research Portfolio

Anonymized Archetypes · 研究项目

Research Mentoring · Field · Method · Result · Venue

Selected Project Archetypes

The mentored-research portfolio — from a first question to a defended paper — across pure mathematics, physics, chemistry and materials, biology, computer science, and applied data. Shown by field and method only; students' identities are withheld.

Browse the research portfolio

Read by a judge — before the judges read it.

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