Last month, at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Los Angeles, recent graduate Michelle Wei ’24 received the Regeneron Young Scientist Award and a prize of $50,000 for developing a way for computers to more quickly solve complex second-order code programming (SOCP) problems. This research also earned her the third place prize in the Regeneron Science Talent Search in March, which guaranteed her a spot at the ISEF.
See Wei share more details about her project in this video from Society for Science.

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