Anya is currently in 12th grade and has a strong interest in the STEM fields. She has been identified as a national merit semi-finalist. She was selected for the prestigious Garcia Summer Research program at Stony Brook, NY where she used machine learning to analyze the effects of pH and temperature on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. She was selected as editor of the student-led journal on medical ethics published by SUNY Stony Brook University. Her research project, using PERL scrip to do bioinformatic analysis to propose a universal coronavirus vaccine, was awarded first place at the Washington State Science and engineering fair. This research project is published in the Journal of Biosciences and Medicines. Based on the SAT exams she took in 7th grade, Anya was recognized as a student of exceptional talent by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth (CTY). She was selected by the Davidson Institute for exceptionally gifted kids as a Davidson Young Scholar. She was one of 60 kids nationally selected for the THINK summer camp in Reno, Nevada for exceptionally gifted kids, where she successfully completed 2 college-level courses in the summer after 7th grade. In 2021 she taught a summer program called 'Girls Who Python' through an Aspire IT grant she received from NCWIT.
In 8th grade, she was awarded $400 by investors at the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce for her design of a newer car seat to reduce the risk of hot car seat deaths. She was awarded a first-place prize for the Washington State Science and Engineering fair in 2020 in Engineering Mechanics and in 2021 in the Embedded Systems category for her safer car seat design. The safer car seat paper was accepted at the IEEE conference in 2021. She has a patent pending on the safer car seat invention. Her greatest technical accomplishment is the development and fundraising for the safer car seat which can save children's lives.
