Winners
Celebrating the 2026 WNY Turing Challenge award recipients.
Six category awards, three poster awards, and five honorable mentions — recognizing outstanding student projects across computing research, creative computing, software, cybersecurity, IoT, and AI.
Category Awards
6
Poster Awards
3
Honorable Mentions
5
Category Awards
First place in each of the six challenge categories.
Comparing Humans and Machine Learning Performance in Credit Score Classification
Sri Dudi
Little Leaders
Nora Radhakrishnan
NearMeer
Salil Karkhanis & Samanyu Mergu
Sentinel AI
Abraham Joseph
PicoCalc
Joshua Anand
Nexus OS
Mohammad Aarish Khan & Mohammad Aasim Khan
Poster Awards
Top three poster presentations from the 2026 Poster Showcase.
1st Place
Investigating the Effects of Microplastics on miRNA with Differential Expression and Sequential Data in Mus musculus
Thomas Yu
2nd Place
Machine Learning Learner
Sri Dudi
3rd Place
Sentinel AI
Abraham Joseph
Honorable Mentions
Standout projects recognized by the judging panel.
Procedurally Generated Platformer
Daniel Xia
Galaga Hacked Edition
Hoang Le Nguyen
AI Symptom Triage Assistant
Armaan Das
The Game Hub
Andy Zheng
Near-Miss Detection: AI-Assisted Early Warning for Pedestrian–Vehicle Conflicts
Veer Daliya
Congratulations to all 2026 participants.
Thank you to every student, mentor, and reviewer who made this year possible. We can't wait to see what you build next.
For questions about the awards, please contact k12-computing@buffalo.edu.